Department of EECE,

Institute of Technology, GITAM (Deemed to be University)

Course Title : DESIGN THINKING

Course Code: 19EID132 Credit : 03 Scheme (L:T:P) : 2:0:2

Type of Course: Lectures,
Core/ Elective: Core Contact Hours: 40
Self Study & Quiz
Faculty: Dr. B. Jagadish Kumar Email: jbokam2@gitam.edu
Syllabus

Module I 8 hours
Introduction to design, characteristics of successful product development,
product development process, identification of opportunities, product
planning, Innovation in product development.

Module II 8 hours
Design Thinking: Introduction, Principles, the process, Innovation in Design
Thinking, benefits of Design thinking, design thinking and innovation, case
studies.

Module III 8 hours

Idea generation: Introduction, techniques, Conventional methods, Intuitive
methods, Brainstorming, Gallery method, Delphi method, Synectics etc, Select
ideas from ideation methods, case studies.

Module IV 8 hours
Design Thinking in Information Technology, Design Thinking in Business
process model, Design Thinking for agile software development, virtual
collaboration, multi user and multi account interaction, need for
communication, TILES toolkit, Cloud implementation.

Module V 8 hours
Design thinking for service design: How to design a service, Principles of
service design, Benefits of service design, Service blueprint, Design strategy,
organization, principles for information design, principles of technology for
service design.
 Books

1.Pahl, Beitz, Feldhusen, Grote – Engineering Design: a systematic approach,

Springer, 2007
2. Christoph Meinel and Larry Leifer, Design Thinking, Springer, 2011
3. Aders Riise Maehlum - Extending the TILES Toolkit – from Ideation to
Prototyping
4. http://www.algarytm.com/it-executives-guide-to-design-thinking:e-book.
5. Marc stickdorn and Jacob Schneider, This is Service Design Thinking, Wiely,
2011