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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 12 – Visualize the Vote

Ever been stuck in a meeting where you can’t gain consensus or get past a team member with a strong opinion? Dot voting is a great approach.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 11 – Speed Boat

Speed Boat is a design thinking activity to help frame obstacles holding back your project's success. Inject a bit of fun into your process!

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 10 – Affinity Mapping

An affinity diagram/map is an easy-to-make physical, tactile, and editable tool that can help you see trends and areas of opportunity.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 9 – Rose, Bud, Thorn

Rose, Bud, Thorn is a useful representation of a day-in-a-life. We've used it to annotate breakpoints, improvement opportunities, and more.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Lesson 8 – Difficulty & Importance Matrix

The Difficulty & Importance Matrix is a favorite Design Thinking method. Prioritize a list of items and note their relevance to your project.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 7 – Competitors & Complementors Map

The Competitors/Complementors Map is an excellent way to visualize a company or product’s place in their industry’s competitive landscape.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 6 – Card Sorting

Card sorting is great for user research. It can help you understand the values a product or feature provides and which are most important.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 5 – Remember the Future

By helping your stakeholders imagine how their product will make users successful, this Design Thinking exercise can help clarify and drive priorities.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 4 – Start Your Day

Start Your Day will help you understand when and how a user engages with your product over time. It's a commonly used exercise at Atomic.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 3 – POEMS

You can get better user observations and more useful user research with the POEMS methods. Here's my overview, a how-to, and a template.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 2 – Story Mapping

Starting a new initiative? Use Story Mapping to do some design thinking, and create a detailed understanding of the user’s experience.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 1 – The Love/Breakup Letter

Need to identify positive and negative things about your brand/product/company/event? Apply some Design Thinking with the Love/Breakup Letter exercise.

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