A Better Grocery Cart

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Design Thinking and Identifying a Problem Have you ever tried to walk down a crowded hallway and thought there has to be a better way to get through the school Have you ever held a tool in your hand and realized it doesn’t feel or work the way you want it to Have you ever wished that somebody would figure out an easier method to clean or even redecorate your room If so you may be an inventor Whenever a product or system doesn’t work as well as it could it has a design problem An inventor finds these design problems and improves the design or creates brand-new things that solve problems To be a successful inventor you need to solve problems for many people not just yourself One new idea might make life easier for the whole world Lots of great inventors use a process called design thinking to help them identify problems big and small and create solutions for them Design thinking is a specific way of looking at products and problems to help figure out how to improve them The design firm IDEO made design thinking famous and one of its first projects was to reinvent the shopping cart Now it’s your turn to design a better shopping cart by using design thinking 4 CHAPTER ONE