UX/Design Practices The Magic of Simplicity: Keeping Design Thinking Workshops Energized and Impactful When you emphasize simplicity in a design thinking workshop, you empower your participants to dive in, get creative, and truly collaborate.
UX/Design Techniques 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.
UX/Design Techniques Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 16 – How Might We…? "How might we...?" suggests new approaches to old problems and reminds us that change is possible. It's a simple exercise with big results.
UX/Design Techniques Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 15 – How to Make Toast Asking clients to explain how complex systems work can be daunting. "How to Make Toast" helps you prepare your group for systems thinking.
UX/Design Techniques 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 get useful feedback from a diverse group.
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.
