UX/Design Techniques Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 13 – Hopes & Fears The "Hopes & Fears" design thinking exercise may feel cheesy. But it can reveal hidden motivations and bring the group together.
UX/Design Techniques 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.
UX/Design Techniques 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!
UX/Design Techniques 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.
UX/Design Techniques 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.
UX/Design Techniques 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.
UX/Design Techniques 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.
UX/Design Techniques 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.
UX/Design Techniques 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.
UX/Design Techniques 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.
UX/Design Techniques 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.
UX/Design Techniques 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.
