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Successful application of User eXperience (UX) design thinking relies on appropriate tools and strategies. The aim is to enhance the interaction and user experience of a design thinking course in a Chinese context, particularly for elementary and high schools attached to Beijing Normal University. It includes two cases face to two different target user groups: young parents and high school teachers. By using a human-centered design process, the study uses qualitative field research methods to understand parents’ and teachers’ attitudes and needs for initiating such courses. Interactive prototypes are developed to aid teaching, an online platform to assist management, and the research team invites users to experience and evaluate these human-computer user interfaces. After iterations of conceptual evaluation, one design solution is a novel design thinking course service combined with interactive toolkits, public services, and the other solution is an online design thinking learning platform that supports multi-user online collaborations.
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Zhu, D., Liu, W., Tang, S., Wang, M., Liu, Y., Sheng, J. (2021). Landing UX Design Thinking Tools and Strategies in a Chinese Context. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R., Langlois, K., Choplin, A. (eds) Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications III. IHIET 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1253. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55307-4_10
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