A preliminary investigation of the features of the communication software assisted design thinking based learning

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to preliminary understand the efficiency of implementing technology (communication software) to foster student’s learning of visual identity and branding design in order to cultivate their design thinking implicitly. A total of thirty-six students who major in visual communication design participated in this study. Students who took a corporate identity design course were choose to be the participants. To probe their view of implementing communication software (Line and Facebook group), three open-ended questions about the assistance, advantage, and disadvantage of incorporating the two communication software were asked through an online questionnaire. Moreover, coding frameworks were derived based on students’ responses in order to induct their replication and to help researcher grab a clearer picture of students’ perspectives towards the application of communication software in the course. Results show that the convenience and the immediacy of communication software are the features that students mostly take advantages of. This is to some extent consistent to the viewpoint about information technology. Meanwhile, students reported most frequently of the disadvantages of the distraction, and provides various defects about incorporating communication software during learning.