# A First Implementation of a Design Thinking Workshop During a Mobile App Development Project Course

## TL;DR

This paper reports on implementing a Design Thinking workshop in a mobile app development course, highlighting its role in fostering creativity and idea generation among students with a focus on experiential learning.

## Contribution

It presents the first implementation of a Design Thinking workshop tailored for a mobile app course, including practical details, observations, and lessons learned.

## Key findings

- Students showed increased creativity and idea generation.
- The workshop facilitated experiential and social learning.
- Practical guidelines for future implementations.

## Abstract

Due to their characteristics, millennials prefer learning-by-doing and social learning, such as project-based learning. However, software development projects require not only technical skills but also creativity; Design Thinking can serve such purpose. We conducted a workshop following the Design Thinking approach of the d.school, to help students generating ideas for a mobile app development project course. On top of the details for implementing the workshop, we report our observations, lessons learned, and provide suggestions for further implementation.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1803.10587