Degree Level Course
Design Thinking for Data-Driven App Development
This course helps you learn the basics of Design Thinking in an experiential way. This course aims at empathy-led data-driven app development approach for data scientists. The learners will launch a fully functioning app in a real app store at the end of the course.
Course ID: BSMS4002
Course Credits: 4
Course Type: Elective
Pre-requisites: None
What you’ll learn
Course structure & Assessments
12 weeks of coursework, weekly online assignments, 2 in-person invigilated quizzes, 1 in-person invigilated end term exam. For details of standard course structure and assessments, visit Academics page.
| WEEK 1 | Introduction to Design Thinking – Course outline and projects, Intro to the Design of Everyday Things, Intro to Design Thinking in software apps, Project management |
| WEEK 2 | Empathize – P1 – Persona Creation, Customer Journey Mapping, Design Paradox, Demo on a real problem |
| WEEK 3 | Empathize – P1 – List of problems, How Might We questions, Demo on a real problem |
| WEEK 4 | Analyze – P1 – Multi-Why, Conflict of Interest, Demo on a real problem |
| WEEK 5 | Solve – P1 – Silent brainstorming, Inventive Principles, Concept creation, Demo on a real problem |
| WEEK 6 | Test – P1, Empathize – P2 Assumptions, Features, Field trials, Basics of Digital Marketing |
| WEEK 7 | Website Development, User Experience Design, Prototypes |
| WEEK 8 | Analyze – P2 |
| WEEK 9 | Solve – P2 |
| WEEK 10 | Test – P2, Empathize – P3 – Obtaining insights/ feedback from the customers or target users |
| WEEK 11 | Analyze – P3 |
| WEEK 12 | Test – P3, Launch of the App |
About the Instructors
Dr. Bala Ramadurai is an author, coach, consultant and professor. He has authored a book on Design Thinking called Karmic Design Thinking (https://dt.balaramadurai.net).
He has 3 patents to his credit and 10+ publications in international research journals. He co-founded TRIZ Innovation India (https://trizindia.org) and is an Adjunct Professor at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, India (https://www.sibmpune.edu.in). He currently mentors an EdTech enterprise called Knoin Electronics (https://knoin.org) He is a professor at National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (https://nptel.ac.in). He has a PhD from Arizona State University, USA, and a B.Tech from IIT Madras, India.
Prathap Haridoss is currently the Dean (Academic Courses) and a Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT Madras. He did his B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Madras and got his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He worked as a Senior Scientist in Plug Power New York, before joining IIT Madras as a Faculty. His research interests include Fuel Cell and Carbon Nanomaterials. Prathap Haridoss was also one of the coordinators of NPTEL (National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning) and the IIT Madras B.S. Degree Program.