Inquiries,

Investigations and
Immersion
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Dear Student,
Welcome to the INQUIRIES, INVESTIGATIONS AND IMMERISON Course
offered by The University of the Cordilleras, Integrated School, Senior High School. This
course module emphasizes on self-directed, research-based, and outcome-based learning.
The key in successfully passing this subject lies in your commitment in learning and
complying with the requirements. It is our desire that you pass this subject fully equipped
with the necessary 21st Century skills. This module was designed to provide you with a
fun and meaningful learning experiences and opportunities. You will be enabled to process
the content of this module while being an active learner.
Enjoy and maximize the learning while in your own homes.

Josephine S. Galanza

In this module, you will be encountering the following parts and icons. (Parts depending per subject)

This part enumerates the objectives of the module. This part shall give you an idea
TARGET of the skills or competencies you are expected to acquire upon completion of this
module.

This part includes an activity that aims to check what you already know about the
TESTER lesson to take.

In this portion, a new lesson will be introduced. This section provides a discussion
TEACHING of the lesson. This section aims to help you explore and understand new concepts
and skills.

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This involves the reflective part of the module. It contains various activities that
TAKE AWAY will allow you to reflect and state what you have learned.

This is the assessment presented at the end of each module. This section aims to
TOUCHSTONE check how much have you learned from the module. This will also evaluate your
level of mastery in achieving the learning competency.

THE DESIGN THINKING: An Introduction

OBJECTIVES

After completing this chapter, you’ll be able to:

1. understand challenges and benefits of Design Thinking;

2. communicate clearly about Design Thinking; and
3. have a process and mindset suited to innovation and creative problem-
solving.

CONTENT

1. What is Design Thinking?

2. Design Thinking: New Innovative Thinking for New Problems
3. The Design Thinking Process

LECTURES

THE DESIGN THINKING

Design Thinking is not an exclusive property of designers – all great innovators in
literature, art, music, science, engineering, and business have practiced it.

The word “design” has traditionally been used to describe the visual aesthetics of objects
such as consumer products, architecture, and fashion. Over time, the discipline of design
expanded to include not only the shaping of things but also the ways that people interact
with systems, services, and organizations.

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What is Design Thinking?

 Design Thinking is a problem solving methodology especially well-suited for

investigating ill-defined problems. It uses methods derived from the discipline of
design to match people’s needs with what is feasible and what a viable organizational
strategy can convert into customer/stakeholder value in a financially sustainable way.

 Design Thinking is a human-centered core. It encourages organizations to focus on

the people they’re creating for, which leads to better products, services, and internal
processes.

Principles of Design Thinking

1. The Human Rule All design is social in nature

2. The Ambiguity Rule Ambiguity is inevitable – experiment at

the limits of your knowledge
3. All Design is Redesign Technology and Social Circumstances
may change but Basic Human Needs
remain unchanged
4. The Tangibility Rule Prototypes help to make ideas tangible,
enabling designers to communicate them
effectively

Role of Design Thinking

1. A Holistic Approach to Challenges

Design Thinking is best suited to addressing problems where multiple spheres

collide, at the intersection of business and society, logic and emotion, rational and
creative, human needs and economic demands and between systems and
individuals.

2. It’s Not Just a Process or Set of Steps

Design Thinking is not necessarily only to be understood as a process or method

for solving a set-in-tone collection of problems. It is also a mindset that can be
applied in almost any scenario where innovation or thinking differently is required.

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It can also be combined with other methodologies, business strategies, social

innovation models, and management practices.

3. It’s About Human-centered Innovation

Design Thinking works best where we need to make human sense of things,
approaching challenges in ways that best suit human needs regardless of the scale
or authority of the challenge. It starts with an intention, a desire, a need or
yearning towards a better situation or state. We have no way of knowing whether
this is a mere dream or a practical and viable path to take. Design Thinking gives
us the tools to explore What Could Be.

4. Cope with Disruptions in Society

Design Thinking steps in with a bold new human-centered approach at radically

changing how we go about exploring problems and finding solutions to those
problems, helping us break out of the old molds we’ve become stuck in, so as to
take a fresh look at the world around us.

5. Focus on Users

Many people are selecting the few options that speak directly to their human needs
and experiences. This has driven Human-centered Design Thinking. Approaches
to business and social innovation are increasingly looking for alternatives to the old
models of adding value, by focusing on human needs and experiences as primary
motivating factors.

6. Innovate or be Swept Away with the Tide

The abilities to understand and act on changes rapidly in our environments and
changes in human behavior are becoming crucial skills we are still developing and
refining. Design Thinking offers a means for grappling with all this change in a
more human-centric manner.

DESIGN THINKING: New Innovative Thinking

for New Problems
Design Thinking is suited to addressing a wide range of challenges and is best used for
bringing innovation within the following contexts:

1. Quality of life
2. Problems affecting diverse groups of people

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3. Shifting markets and behaviors

4. Issues relating to new technology
5. Addressing rapid changes in society
6. Complex unsolved societal challenges
7. Scenarios involving multidisciplinary teams
8. Entrepreneurial initiatives
9. Educational advances
10. Problems that data can’t solve

THE DESIGN THINKING PROCESS

Design Thinking is a design methodology that provides a solution-based approach to
solving problems. It’s extremely useful in tackling complex problems that are ill-defined or
unknown, by understanding the human needs involved, by re-framing the problem in human-
centric ways, by creating many ideas in brainstorming sessions, and by adopting a hands-on
approach in prototyping and testing.

Understanding these stages of Design Thinking will empower anyone to apply the Design
Thinking methods in order to solve complex problems that occur around us – in our companies,
in our countries, and even on the scale of our planet.

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REFERENCES

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/what-is-design-thinking-and-why-is-
it-so-popular?fbclid=IwAR1LKUqR7RCMo_K-c3btFTX5aSk7T79T-IL-
ByG732KLQIhaqtOTFnjcurw
https://api.heinz.cmu.edu/media/94-866_Design_Thinking_Syllabus_S18.pdf
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/design-thinking-new-innovative-
thinking-for-new-problems
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/5-stages-in-the-design-thinking-
process

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ACTIVITY
APPLICATION
Directions: Read and analyze each statement then satisfy what is being required for. 40
points.

1. Design Thinking is: (give your explanation to each factors; up to 3 sentences only)

a. A problem – solving approach

b. Human – centric
c. Solution – based

Rubric

Crit Rating
eria
5 3 2
(clear (unclea (unclear
and r but and
accept accept unaccepta
able) able) ble)
Mai
n
ide
a
(inc
lud
es
gra
mm
ar)
Highest Possible Score = 5 points per item

2. Choose three (3) from any of the “New Innovative Thinking for New Problems” context
and identify one (1) problem situation for each context. 5 points each.

3. What project (of any kind and in any context) do you plan to do once you complete your
studies using Design Thinking? 10 points.

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Rubric

Crit Rating
eria
5 3 2
(realist (unreal (unrealisti
ic and istic c and
reason but unreasona
able) reason ble)
able)
Wh
at
proj
ect?
Wh
y?
Highest Possible Score = 10 points

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