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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 15 – How to Make Toast

Asking clients to explain how complex systems work can be a daunting task. "How to Make Toast" helps you prepare your group for systems thinking.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 14 – I Like, I Wish, What If

It's hard to get positive, constructive feedback. "I Like, I Wish, What If" uses Design Thinking to draw useful feedback from a diverse group of people.

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 13 – Hopes & Fears

The "Hopes & Fears" design thinking exercise may feel cheesy. But it can reveal hidden motivations, tease out unrealistic expectations, and bring the group together.

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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 dominating 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 the obstacles that are holding back the success of your project—and it can interject some life and 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, themes, and areas of opportunity.

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

Rose, Bud, Thorn is an extremely rich and useful representation a day-in-a-life. We've used it to annotate breakpoints, opportunities for improvements, and things we didn’t want to

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Design Thinking Toolkit, Lesson 8 – Difficulty & Importance Matrix

The Difficulty & Importance Matrix is one of my favorite Design Thinking methods. It's a powerful way to prioritize a list of items/features and understand their relevance to your

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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 one of the most commonly used exercises at Atomic.

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