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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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Design Thinking Toolkit – The Supply List

Before diving into exercises, gather your design thinking supply list—a personal toolkit of essential supplies and nice-to-have items.

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Design Thinking Toolkit – What Is Design Thinking?

Design thinking uses logic, imagination, intuition, & systemic reasoning to solve tricky problems. It's never boring, sometimes physical, & always engaging.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Lesson 31 – Forced Connections

Are you ready to participate in "Forced Connections," the design thinking equivalent of six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon?

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Lesson 30 – Design Studio

Get ready to unleash your team's inner creative geniuses with a collaborative brainstorming session called Design Studio.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Lesson 29 – SCAMPER

Ready to shift your next ideation session into high gear? Bob Eberle's SCAMPER framework will help you get there.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 28 – The Powers of 10

Taking inspiration from the film by Ray and Charles Eames called "Powers of Ten," this activity can help you reframe your thinking in big and small ways.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 27 – The Pre-Project Survey

Are you just getting started on a project and hoping to gather some high-level project details? Then this pre-project survey is just the activity for you.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 26 – Worst Possible Idea

Have a shy team that struggles with brainstorming or ideation sessions? Put them at ease and boost their confidence with the Worst Possible Idea.

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