Don’t judge the depth of a subject with the number of teachers involved in it
Tags: Design Thinking, Journey

Life is a journey not an experience is what I believe in after completing DT class. The first impression I got from this class was not up to my expectation as we had two teachers teaching one subject which for me was astonishing. I could not figure out the reason why this class had two teachers, was it too hard that one could not handle the pressure or was it too vague. I found this class more like HR which we studied in last semester. Moreover, it was sort of revision but there were many topics which were new and interesting. This class really helped me to build my technical skills, the activities which we did in the class was very creative which helped me to bring new innovative ideas and think outside the box. I learnt that, we shouldn’t confine ourselves inside the box sometimes, we should think broadly because that’s where the ideas come from.

In the first class I had so many questions what is this subject about, what are we learning and many more. At first, I thought we would learn about creating some websites something more digital, but it was not near to that, so Jokes on me. When the class started, I thought we only has one teacher later we had two teachers for this subject which was quiet new thing for me. We had so many questions why there are 2 teachers for 1 subject still the answer is not revealed yet. The most interesting thing was all the marketing and finance had a combined class, I can only imagine how fun it would be if we had physical classes due to corona, we had to do boring online classes. We got to do what we got to do (sad face). The favorite part of this subject for me is that we had NO EXAMS. I was so relived hearing those two words. We did so many activities in the first class which was very fun and refreshing.

As the days passed by, we were divided in the groups, we had 5 members in our group, and we name ourselves as “SAVAGE”. Everyone was new to me in that group only with some I had interacted, but I was not close to them. It was new experience for me to work with them. We had different brains and different ideas which was very helpful while doing our assignments and presentation. Later another group’s members were merged in our group which made 8 members in our group. Working in group has made me realize the importance of group work, how much it benefits us and how much can we learn from each other. As the saying goes together we rise united we fall, we had so many tough task, which if I was alone couldn’t be able to complete it but with group we were able to do all the tough task. I learnt how to work in a group, how we should take everyone together in the group so no one feels like they’ve not heard or they are ignored because once the group member feels that they won’t put any effort in the work which will make our work inefficient. I’ve realized that coordinating and communication is the key while working in a group.

For me design thinking class is all about Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. These words are very important in Design thinking. These words seem very small but DAMN we spent entire 2-hour learning about these words. These 5 words hold entire idea of design thinking. We struggled so much while doing our project, these words seems easy but while making the solution for our problems it was so hard. I wish we had physical class for prototype because I’ve heard from my seniors that making prototype was so fun, we all missed that fun. Nevertheless, we had fun in our online class doing different activities also it was all because of our teachers Anjan and Rakesh sir who made this call interactive and fun. Our teachers brought in many guest speakers for us to make the session interesting and exciting. We also had classes for the concept of business model, agile methodology and even sprint goal in brief.

Overall design thinking class was like stress buster for me. We had so many challenging subjects, but this class did not have any exam it was all about our creative thinking and brining up new ideas. This subject did help me to explore my limits because until now I never thought outside the box instead, I always made myself confined inside the box. Design thinking is not only about leaning but it’s about applying in real life, it helped me to gain so many skills which will help me in the future, when I’ll start working. I am thankful to both Anjan and Rakesh sir for being mentor throughout our journey. I can’t believe how fast time flies; it seems like yesterday we had our first class. As we know everything that has a beginning has an ending, so this subject also has its ending. It’s so hard to believe that we are almost done with this subject but yes, its ending with good memories which I’ll always cherish.

-Utsukta Karki