Strengthening Profile for Studying Abroad- Gradding's Design Thinking Workshop at MGD

The purpose of conducting the workshop is to identify and address the problems and opportunities and find out the difficulties in systems or projects. In addition, design thinking is a human-centred approach that leads to innovation and problem-solving skills. Moreover, the workshop covered the 35 students who engaged in the different activities.

The factors that make the design thinking workshop worthwhile:

1 Innovative Problem Solving

2 Profile Building

2 Creative Solutions

3 Improved Engagement

4 High Empathy

A Quick Glance About the Workshop

The facilitator of the Design Thinking Workshop introduced the need and the major principles of design thinking. He makes students understand inclusive viewpoints and think beyond the obvious. However, the design thinking process is based on three factors that are Empathise, Experiment, and Explore which make students reach creative solutions. Students get involved in activities that help in solving the problems with the right solutions. Below are some of the creative activities that students occupied during the workshop.

1 Draw Your Neighbour

2 Designing a Coffee Mug

3 Rope Exercise

4 Re-Designing the Stick

5 Group Discussions

These are some of the activities where students got involved in understanding the insights and opportunities through detailed tasks. The workshop was a great initiative for students to engage in innovation and problem-solving situations.

Why Gradding Organized the Design Thinking Workshop for Students?

A design thinking workshop is an innovative problem-solving session that runs on the idea of design thinking. These workshops are activity-based and involve real-time cooperation. Thus, Gradding conducted this workshop to enhance the skills and abilities of students that make their profiles better for their careers and upcoming opportunities. Some of the insights that students have gained from this workshop are mentioned below:

Deeper Engagement: Students got involved in the deeper engagement of understanding the problems or challenges. It involves communicating with the users or team members, identifying the problem from their views, and understanding the needs.

Collaboration: Students share ideas and build on them cooperatively. This helped them develop respect and understanding of each other’s skills by bringing more teamwork and co-creation.

Student-Centric Approach: Design thinking emphasizes the student-centred approach to problem-solving. Therefore, the motive of the workshop is to develop effective and efficient solutions.  

Prototyping: By participating in the design thinking workshop, students create examples of their ideas and instantly learn from the feedback, clarify ideas, and improve upon them continuously.

Reachable Insights: By the end of the workshop or activities, students gained insights into their problems and effective solutions. It can help them in making their decision-making power strong and further efforts.

Overall, by conducting the design thinking workshop students gained a lot of benefits that made them understand about their insider’s creativeness and innovation. However, Gradding.com is going to organize more workshops like this for students to enhance their skills that will help them in their career enhancement.