Group 4 Instru
Group 4 Instru
2. Activities Undertaken
A. Empathize
B. Define and Ideate
C. Prototype
D. Case Study Project (Mayo
clinic)
3. Challenges Faced
4. Key Learnings
5. Impact Assessment
6. Conclusion
7. Acknowledgements
8. References
1. Introduction:
For the past few weeks our group was engaged in the design thinking
assignments. To begin with, we conducted an interview of Aasha Kaku who
is a self-employed woman prepares tiffin for the nearby students and
through this she manages to take care of her family. During our
conversation we come to know about the hardships and struggles in her
life. She lost her husband in covid-19 pandemic and now she is the only
breadwinner in the family. We noted various problems, however primary
struggle was about the lack of financial resources. This could be solved to
some extent by scaling her tiffin business. We then started to find some
ideas for the solution to this problem. Also, we worked on a case study of
Mayo Clinic. All these activities are discussed in brief in following points.
2. Activities Undertaken:
We have done 4 activities throughout, which were based on the the design
thinking principle empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test. Before
each activity we had done a brainstorming session to get the maximum
number of ideas and from every point of view. The following are the details
of every activity
A. Empathize (Engaging Personas): We started with empathising with
Aasha Kaku first. As discussed in the introduction part we took an
interview of Aasha Kaku, noted down all the points and then
brainstormed about the design of persona. After short listing all the
points we started doing actual work on chart paper. Here are some
images of the Interview and the charts.
4. Key Learnings:
There were many things that we learned from these projects which changed
our perspective of looking at a problem in some sense. Following are some
key takeaways
• We learned how to empathize with a person and how to understand
their problems with all perspectives
• We learned how to Ideate the solutions once you are aware of one’s
problem.
• We learned team management and how to work in a group and how
to deal with different points of view.
• We also learned how to use design thinking principles in real life by
studying the case study of Mayo Clinic.
• We also learned some drawing and painting art while making the
charts.
5. Impact Assessment:
We have drawn out some assumption about the Impact on Aasha Kaku’s
business by doing some market research.
• Business grows at a significantly high compounded growth rate.
• Gets more customers from COEP as well as from other colleges too.
6. Conclusion:
In conclusion, we would say that these activities have created a positive
impact on each of our lives. We learned various new things, applied our
individual expertise in making all the assignments well. Learned how to
apply design thinking principles. We also hope that our solutions and
prototype may help Aasha Kaku to scale her business.
7. Acknowledgment:
We would like to express a sincere gratitude to Prof Kshipra Moghe ma’am
for guiding us at every step. Thank you for such wonderful activities and
projects. These activities made us more empathetic and broaden our vison
to look forward to a problem and think of an effective solution for it.
8. References
• https://www.mayoclinic.org/
• https://public-media.interaction-design.org/pdf/Engaging-
Personas.pdf
• https://www.mindmapping.com/mind-map
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Clinic
• https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/
• https://www.youtube.com/user/mayoclinic
• https://college.mayo.edu/