{"id":644,"date":"2026-03-24T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/?p=644"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:02:26","slug":"ai-and-design-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/ai-and-design-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"AI and Design\u00a0Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/files\/2026\/03\/image-1024x525.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/files\/2026\/03\/image-1024x525.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/files\/2026\/03\/image-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/files\/2026\/03\/image-768x394.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/files\/2026\/03\/image.png 1466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Prof. Zavolokina had the pleasure of delivering a guest lecture at the University of Derby, kindly invited by Dr Chinthaka Jayananda Aluthgama-Baduge.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than focusing on AI as a standalone technology, the session explored the following question:&nbsp;<em>How do we use AI to enhance design thinking without replacing human creativity?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students explored how AI fits across the design thinking process, from generating personas and reframing problems to prototyping and testing ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One insight gained is: \u201cHuman first, AI second\u201d rule works well in a teaching context. When students are asked to create their own ideas before using AI, they are more likely to\u00a0become critical towards AI-generated ideas. Why does it happen? It creates a sense of\u00a0psychological ownership over own ideas. Students value, defend, and refine ideas they came up with themselves far more than those generated by AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Prof. Zavolokina had the pleasure of delivering a guest lecture at the University of Derby, kindly invited by Dr Chinthaka Jayananda Aluthgama-Baduge.\u00a0 Rather than focusing on AI as &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003059,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}