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Design Thinking

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.
UX/Design Techniques

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.
UX/Design Techniques

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.
Culture

(A Lack of) Curiosity Killed the Software Project

A shift happening in software is steering teams away from acting with curiosity. Tools like AI and Figma have helped speed up the process.
UX & Design

Meet the Atomic Object Design Team at UX Y’All 2023

Atomic Object is thrilled to be a sponsor of the 2023 UX Y’All Conference. Our design team is excited to convene there and learn from others!
UX/Design Techniques

Can Design Thinking Workshops Benefit from Competition?

In a recent Design Thinking workshop I hosted, there was a bit of friendly competition among the participants when I split them into groups.
UX & Design

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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