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[Week 1-4] NPTEL Design Thinking – A Primer Assignment Answers 2024
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    1. What is the central focus of Design Thinking in the development of a product/service?

    • Buddha️
    • Humans
    • Ideas
    • Profit

    Answer :- b

    2. Arrange the four steps of Design Thinking in the correct order:

    • Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test
    • Enervate, Aberrate, Serate, Tolerate
    • Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Contro
    • Empathize, Analyze, Solve, Test

    Answer :- a

    3. According to Prof. John Arnold, what can be taught in a classroom?

    • Creativity
    • Four Noble Truths
    • Design Thinking
    • Science-fiction

    Answer :- a

    4. Why did Prof. Arnold introduce the Arcturus IV case study?️

    • His students could empathize with people who are different from themselves
    • His students could build anything, including an Eggomobil
    • His students could learn from alien cultures
    • His students could analyze intergalactic travel

    Answer :- a

    5. Prof. Bala has linked the four phases of Design Thinking with which ancient philosophy?

    • Four Laws of Thermodynamics
    • Four Laws of Creativity️
    • Four Noble Truths
    • Four Thinking Hats

    Answer :- c

    6. What does the Empathize phase in Design Thinking entail?

    • Experience the problem that your customer is facing as if it were your own
    • Buy a pair of shoes for your customer
    • Perform a detailed market analysis by sending out surveys to all the potential customers
    • Go on a journey with your investors

    Answer :- a

    7. In their effort to empathize with ER patients, what did the IDEO team do?

    • Attached a video camera and pretended to be one of the patients
    • Interviewed patients who were admitted to the Emergency Room
    • Documented their own accident experiences
    • Stopped the hospital from attending to patients

    Answer :- a

    8. What key insight did the IDEO team gain when pretending to be patients in the emergency room?️

    • Patients mostly saw the roof of the hospital when admitted
    • Patients were provided excessive medication
    • Patients were treated badly by the hospital
    • Patients were unconscious the whole time

    Answer :- a

    9. How does empathy through observation benefit Design Thinkers?

    • Assist older adults with taking medicines
    • Identify diseases in older adults who find it difficult to open bottles with their arthritic hands
    • Create child-proof medicine bottles
    • Identify inherent problems people are facing, even if they are not completely aware of them

    Answer :- d

    10. What is the next step in Karmic Design Thinking after the Empathize phase?

    • Solve
    • Test
    • Analyze
    • How Might We

    Answer :- c

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