Design thinking applied to the final work (2016) was a short talk given at PUCPR teaching seminar. The talk shares the experience of using design thinking for supporting Digital Design students in their final work. The approach was useful for finding themes according to user and audience needs and desires. Through organized collaboration between students, we managed to guide groups of 20 to 40 students with just 2 teachers. In the discussions at the end of the course, students positively evaluated the freedom granted to them to discover their own poetics.