James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2021

CP1403 - Design Thinking

Subject Description

This subject provides students with the design process, interpretation, ideation, experimentation, evolution of design solutions, design formulation and design thinking. Students will develop essential design skills of creating, imaging, generating, iterating, communicating and consolidating. Collaboratively students will work together in teams to design, iterate, implement and validate computing solutions. Through projects, students will develop problem-solving skills, communication skills, presentation skills, project management skills and also build creative systems for a range of applications. Students will learn basic approaches to creative group problem solving working in teams in the form of a "sprint" event. The Sprint environment will provide students with an opportunity to develop these skills via a short-term 2-day design sprint to collectively analyse a problem then design and partially implement a practical solution, which is a mandatory part of this subject.

Learning Outcomes

• apply basic design thinking processes
• apply basic project management skills for creative IT industries
• appraise basic IT systems design
• apply basic design thinking to business cases

Subject Assessment

• Part 1 Sprint Participation 30% Part 2 Self Reflection Task 20% - (50%) - Group
• Part 1 Project Plan 15% Part 2 Project Report 35% - (50%) - Group & Individual

Note that minor variations might occur due to the continuous subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.

Special Assessment Requirements

Practical attendance is mandatory in this subject. A student who fails to attend and demonstrate their attempt to at least 70% of practical, must meet with the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching and provide evidence as to why they should be permitted to sit the final exam or submit the final assessment task.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:  CP1803

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