This is an INDIVIDUAL, WRITTEN assessment. You are required to design an A2-sized poster to demonstrate your visualisation, summarising, prioritising and synthesising skills (these are all key skills in Design Thinking!). An effective poster is a communication tool that utilises structure, graphics and text to clearly convey complex messages, while being visually appealing and engaging; text, albeit important, is used sparingly. It is the responsibility of the poster's designer to ensure that the poster is self-explanatory and does not require extensive interpretation from the audience.
In order to complete this assessment, you are required to design a poster, which clearly addresses the following question:What is personal reflection and why is it so important for Design Thinking?Being able to self-reflect is important for self-growth and maturity. Self-reflection allow us to re-run moments in our thinking and learn from them. Self-reflection assists in improving our communication, helps inform our decisions, and further strengthens the way we can visualise outcomes by our actions. It is a process that develops meaning from experience. It is a critical factor in helping to solve Design Thinking problems.
To be successful in this assessment, you are required to research academic/scholarly (published in peer-reviewed journals) literature and make use of effective and suitable visualisation techniques in order to design a carefully constructed and logical poster, which clearly displays your answer to the above question.
More specifically, your poster should:
- clearly address the question;
- be logically structured and aesthetically pleasing;
- refer to correct material you have read in the literature (you should include a MINIMUM of 3 scholarly references - in-text references and a reference list in APA style must be included on the poster; please see Moodle for some examples of how this can be achieved in a visually pleasing manner);
- present a clear and concise message (in title and other content);
- contain sufficient detail that a layperson (without specific background in Design Thinking) can understand what you are trying to say;
- use relevant visualisation techniques* to visually display the message and content of your poster; and
- use text sparingly (a MAXIMUM of 300 words, excluding reference list, is permitted).
*NOTE:This may include graphics, but you need to remember that this does NOT mean cutting and pasting graphics from the internet or other sources - plagiarism of visual content will be treated in the same manner as plagiarism of text. You must use ONE SINGLE PowerPoint slide as your poster (see template on Moodle)