By Raunak Chaudhari (Lab Master, DoLAB) Umes Dai (Right Brain, Empowerment Academy) asks a participant during Teach Lab: “Why do you look so low?”, to which the participant said: “ASK, don’t ASSUME”. And that is what we have been reminding the participants throughout the workshop. At this point, we as organizers of the workshop have…
By Sanjivani Shrestha (Student – BBA) When I first heard the term ‘Design Thinking’ the first thing that triggered my mind was problem solving. But at the end of the day, I realized it was a lot more than that. Day 1 of the workshop had participants from different age groups and backgrounds, some were…
By Prateek Raj Neupane (Lab Master – DoLAB) I have a 3-year-old daughter and I like to observe what she does intently. In my process of observation, I assume that what a child does is a natural behavior for human beings and what s/he needs to be taught is possibly acquired. For example, my daughter…
By Shanta Milan Dewan (MBA Student, Participant – Concept Development for Impact 2018, Coach – Do Shop for Rotract District Nepal) This is part 2 of a two-part reflection blog written by Shanta Milan. Read part-1 here. Day 2: I arrived at 8:45 and everyone was already in the class, to no one’s surprise (If…
By Shanta Milan Dewan (MBA Student, Participant – Concept Development for Impact 2018, Coach – Do Shop for Rotract District Nepal) This is part 1 of a two-part reflection blog written by Shanta Milan. Read part-2 here. A typical day for a student of Kings College, rushing and running towards the class to get on…
By Saurav Karki, MBA Student Participant, BUCSBIN Concept Development for Impact 2019 Design thinking is an iterative process in which we seek to understand the people’s empathy, difficulties, challenges, and redefine problems in an effort to identify alternative solutions and strategies that is beyond our initial level of understanding. Design thinking attempts to give a…
By Raunak Chaudhari (MBA Alumni; Coach – DoLAB) Do you learn something by reading something or listening to someone talk or even watching someone work? Or do you learn when you take that and put that in the context of what you do? Prateek dai (Lab Master, Do Lab) and I had a quick conversation…
With design thinking, people often use the idea of “iteration”. It is the idea that you don’t do something once and be done with it. Instead, you take the result, learn from it and go back to make it better every time. And just like iteration in designing products and services, we manage to learn…