Design Thinking

<p>Design Thinking &#8211; Shelters for the Homeless [3.5 minute read] Here&#8217;s the next post, towards sharing stories and incidents around design thinking in daily lives, towards a better collective understanding. My earlier post was about taps at home, and why house helps might be wasting water. If you missed that, here&#8217;s the link. Now, in&#8230;</p>

<p>Design Thinking &#8211; Water Taps at Home [7 minute read] I&#8217;ve had the habit of applying aspects of Design Thinking to my work and personal life for some time now. In fact, off late it is literally a &#8216;permanently on&#8217; app running in my head. I use it to review products or services, or to&#8230;</p>

<p>Vulnerability of Tech Processes and Human Decisions Here are two interesting incidents I came across online in the last week. One, about a seemingly harmless vulnerability in an online service&#8217;s process. The other, a possible vulnerability in human decisions in a human-dependent, traditional business. First of, a French literary buff, conducted an interesting experiment. It&#8230;</p>

<p>An idea using a Design Thinking mindset, for Tesla&#8217;s Supercharging Wait Time Problem Tesla has really transformed the automobile industry, cracking the existing fuel industry and automotive heavyweight nexus. And this is despite the first versions of electric motor driven vehicles dating back to 1828! That&#8217;s when Hungarian Ányos Jedlik invented a type of electric&#8230;</p>

<p>Image: source A Design Question: Turn Indicators on Cars As cars get sleeker, so do its lights. But I&#8217;ve noticed that the entire rear light cluster has been shrinking in size on some cars. And in some, the turn indicators are designed or placed in a way that possibly defeats its purpose. A car&#8217;s rear&#8230;</p>

<p>Design Thinking: What a Patient Wants Design Thinking is a relatively new concept in many countries including India. It is, however, already some decades old now. And having been practicing it for a few years now, I often get asked what it is about. And for examples of its applications. For starters, design thinking is&#8230;</p>

<p>More women in labour and new mothers die in the US than in any other high-income country. And the CDC Foundation estimates that 60% of these deaths are preventable! 60%!! In one of the most developed countries in the world. And since 1990, only 13 countries in the world have seen a rise in maternal&#8230;</p>

<p>India&#8217;s Roads and Bottlenecks Bottlenecks and traffic jams on the streets. Are they an unavoidable phenomenon, or something we caused or created? Same with the lack of lane discipline in Indian drivers. Are drivers always to blame? Or could it be, that some part of the problem is because of how our roads are designed?&#8230;</p>

<p>Image (only used the LG image because I use one of their models at home): source I&#8217;m not exactly on top of the latest microwave oven features. Don&#8217;t think I even know most of the old ones. But if this feature doesn&#8217;t already exist, it would be great to have. I&#8217;m assuming this is how&#8230;</p>

<p>Just built a Lego stealth fighter/ drone. It does need a little imagination to smoothen the edges, etc., bear with me on that&#8230; But that said, have a look and let me know what you think. Image above: Side-view. Completely collapsed for hangar/storage  Image above: Wings fully extended (it folds at two points, one, the&#8230;</p>