A Global Learning and Awarding Program for Student Innovation Projects
WHY?
Next Idea
to
Invent
Cultivating Innovation Leaders
Next Idea to Invent empowers students to become leaders in innovation, equipping them with the practical skills and mindset needed to drive change in a complex world.
Human-Centric Design Focus
Our program prioritizes human-centric design, ensuring that students develop solutions that resonate with real-world needs and foster social impact.
Stanford-Inspired Design Thinking
We adopt Stanford's design thinking framework, providing students with a proven methodology for creating innovative, user-focused solutions.
Global Perspective and Teamwork
By fostering a global community, Next Idea to Invent encourages collaboration and diverse thinking, preparing students to tackle global challenges.
Practical and Applied Learning
Our program emphasizes real-world application, allowing students to test their ideas and gain experience that translates directly to their future endeavors.
Stanford
Design Thinking
Design Thinking is a cutting-edge approach to problem-solving pioneered and championed by the prestigious Stanford Design School. This influential paradigm has gained widespread adoption, transcending industry boundaries to become a cornerstone strategy for both leading corporations and seasoned professionals. It is renowned for its ability to inspire creativity, foster innovation, and drive impactful solutions by harnessing a user-centric mindset.
At the heart of Design Thinking lies a human-focused process that encourages empathy, iterative prototyping, and rigorous testing, ensuring that the resulting ideas are not only novel but also deeply resonate with the needs of the people they serve.
EMPATHIZE
DEFINE
IDEATE
PROTOTYPE
TEST
Feature of Design Thinking
Human-Centered
From Diverge to Converge
Rapid Prototyping
Iterative
Visual Thinking
What Will Students Do?
Students are required to form teams of 5 to 10 members for the Next Idea to Invent project, where they will identify a topic and create solutions for it by following the design thinking methodology.
Define Project Topic
Gain Empathy
Define the Challenge
Generate Solutions
Create Prototypes
Test the Solution
Select a human-centric issue as the focus of your project.
Gain empathy and understanding of the user's experience through immersive investigation.
Pinpoint the problem and craft clear and precise problem statements.
Brainstorm extensively to generate a wide array of potential solutions.
Choose viable ideas and rapidly create testable prototypes.
Conduct real-world testing with actual users to gather feedback.