Singapore University of Social Sciences

Human-Centred Design: Re-Imagined

Human-Centred Design: Re-Imagined (CET217)

Applications Open: 01 October 2024

Applications Close: 15 November 2024

Next Available Intake: January 2025

Course Types: Modular Undergraduate Course

Language: English

Duration: 6 months

Fees: $2020

Area of Interest: General Studies

Schemes: To be confirmed

Funding: To be confirmed

School/Department: SUSS Academy


Synopsis

Transformation is a big word but to put it simply, it means change. Change is a natural state of mind and the only constant. Change requires us to take a step back, reflect and re-imagine the future, not as an abstraction, but in the context of humankind and society. When we re-imagine, we create. An area that will be very disrupted and transformed will be Services which come in many forms and affects everybody. This 3-day course examines how services, once largely physical transactions between buyers and sellers, have now evolved to become digital. Technology is applied to maximise service offerings for greater effectiveness and efficiency. Yet service is essentially human-centred and Human-Centred Design (HCD) is the thread that weaves together many valued co-creations in today’s digital landscape. This course will equip learners with the skills to match today’s work demands through applying HCD skills which emphasise customer-centric interactions based on users’ needs, wants and desires.

Level: 2
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: ALL SEMESTERS

Topics

  • The Human-Centered Design Process
  • The 3 phases of UET (Design Thinking)
  • What “Services” are about
  • Understanding Users’ Needs, Wants and Desires
  • Information Harnessing
  • Contextual Inquiry
  • Ideation (Re:Imagined)
  • Reframing (Re:Create)
  • Prototyping
  • Concept Storytelling
  • Testing & re-iteration
  • Concept Development for Service blueprint

Learning Outcome

  • Discuss the Understand and Observe stages of the Design Thinking process to gather insights.
  • Demonstrate the principles of the Point of View and Ideation stage of the Design Thinking process to generate potential solutions.
  • Debate the theory and function of the Prototyping and Testing of the Design Thinking process to derive a service design blueprint.
  • Describe the problem statement of users.
  • Inspect the Users’ needs, wants and desires.
  • Interpret the User’s data and experiment with the ideation methods.
  • Appraise the suitability of the initial solution and its subsequent iteration.
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