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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 23 – Crazy 8s

Need a design thinking activity to get everyone's creative vibes flowing? Create a bevy of ideas quickly with Crazy 8s. It will help everyone get their thoughts on paper fast.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 22 – Cover Story

Envisioning a grand future for your project or organization can help you make it a reality. All you need is Cover Story and a little imagination.

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Making the Most of Mural – 5 Ways to Prep for a Great Remote Workshop

Before your Mural workshop starts, there are a few easy ways to set yourself up for success and make your meeting more effective.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 21 – How Can I Help…?

You've conducted user interviews and now need to identify problem statements. This activity will help you synthesize feedback and frame your thoughts.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 20 – 2×3

2x3 can kickstart quick prototyping and ideation. It's great as a warmup for more detailed or complex solution-building activities.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 19 – The Perfect Morning

The Perfect Morning is a design thinking exercise for understanding how customers complete a process — or what their perfect process might look like.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 18 – What’s On Your Radar?

"What on your radar?" is a great design thinking icebreaker and a quick way to gather everyone's general thoughts on a topic and gauge their priorities.

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UX Wins & Sins: HidrateSpark 3

The main value proposition of the HidrateSpark is that it glows to encourage sipping. And it's great... until the novelty wears off.

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UX Wins & Sins: Winc

This blog series reviews popular products and digital experiences to glean design lessons from what’s working (the wins!) and what’s not (the sins).

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Villainous Personas – Anticipating the Users You Don’t Want

How to think about the users you don't want so you can prevent, block, or report them from engaging in the experience you are building.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 17 – Alter Egos

Brainstorm and explore new ideas by imagining someone else's perspective. Alter Egos is for teams stuck on a problem or generating hum-drum ideas.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 16 – How Might We…?

Asking "How might we...?" can give you new approaches to old problems — and remind everyone that change is possible. A simple exercise with big results.

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