Resources for instructors

See a collection of resources to use in your design thinking activities:

Introductory resources

Use these resources to expose fellow instructors to design thinking for the first time:

Design thinking overview

Design thinking steps

Resources for each step of the design thinking process

A rich collection of resources that educators can use in design thinking learning contexts is available through the ICT-INOV digital learning platform. To access the resources, please create an intructor account. The collection of available resources is continously being enriched. Resources are available for each step of the design thinking process, including:

  • Introductory overview presentations of design thinking and design thinking steps
  • Encouraging creativity
  • Team building
  • Problem discovery
  • Getting inspiration
  • Empathy
  • Problem statement definition and re-definition
  • Ideation
  • Evaluation of ideas
  • Prototype design
  • A full workshop on design thinking
  • Student reporting tools
  • Printable worksheets for direct use in the classroom