Design Thinking

       The assignment, design thinking, consist of 5 major steps that proven to be effective. They are empathize→define→ideate→prototype→testing. It is possible that the step will not go smooth in a single try. Instead, a return to the previous step may happen, for example, the idea does not fit or unsatisfactory prototype leading to jumping back to empathize to reformulate the problem and enhance the solution. 

       In this assignment, we have to carry out design thinking process and produce a prototype according to the given chapter assigned to us. My theme for the assignment is Application Software. During the empathize stage, we joined an online interview with IT experts to gain insight and to figure out the existing problems via Cisco Webex meeting. At the mean time, our group members realized and agreed that in the recent increase in WhatsApps group, there is a minor problem arose that we deemed can be improved further. The problem is difficulty to sort the groups into one, which is one of the feature Telegram has. The increase in WhatsApps group which has similar group name sometime can cause a wrongly sent message. This is our define stage. Now, the ideate stage, trio of we discussed the solution using Google meet. From the empathize stage, during the interview session with experts, we got the idea of plugins, or extension to an apps to amend a problem. We produced a prototype of how the new WhatsApps feature looks like after the installation of plugin. We illustrated it during the testing stage.