In this course, we will focus on the five-stage model originally proposed by the Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school). These five components are explained below. 

The Five Stages of Design Thinking 

The stages are visualized and explained below.

• Empathize - understand your customers' physical and emotional needs and pain points.
• Define - gather insights from your contextual inquiry and define the problem you're going to solve.
• Ideate - Brainstorm to generate ideas about how you're going to solve the problem/s you've identified.
• Prototype - Bring life to your ideas through prototyping.
• Test - Evaluate how your customers interact with your prototypes.

In the upcoming sections, we'll dive a bit deeper into each stage inspired by the research at Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school).