Bootcamp Bootleg: Design Thinking

Bootcamp Bootleg: Design Thinking

1. Seven mindsets

   • Show Don’t Tell
     • Communicate your vision in an impactful and meaningful way.
   • Focus on Human Values
     • Empathy for the people is fundamental to good design.
   • Craft Clarity
     • Produce a coherent vision out of messy problems.
   • Embrace Experimentation
     • We build to think and learn.
   • Radical Collaboration
     • Bring together innovators with varied backgrounds.
   • Bias Toward Action
     • Bias toward doing and making over thinking and meeting.
   • Be Mindful Of Process
     • Know where you are in the design process.

2. Modes

   • Empathize
     • is the foundation of a human-centered design process
   • Define
     • is when you synthesize your empathy findings into needs
   • Ideate
     • is the design process that generates radical design alternatives
   • Test
     • is the chance to get feedback on your solutions to make them better
   • Prototype
     • is getting ideas out of your head and into the physical world

3. Methods

   • What? | How? | Why?
     • It is a tool that can help you drive to deeper levels of observation.
   • Video Editing
     • Editing can make or break a video: the story is supported or undermined.
   • User Camera Study
     • It allows to understand a user’s experience by seeing it through their eyes.
   • Shooting Video
     • It is a powerful medium for communicating ideas, insights and stories.
   • Interview Preparation
     • In following up with users it is imperative to plan your interviews
   • Storytelling
     • Stories are a great way to connect people with ideas, at a human level.
   • Interview for Empathy
     • Understand a person’s thoughts allows determine how to innovate for him or her.
   • Feedback Capture Grid
     • It can be used to facilitate real-time capture of feedback-times.
   • Extreme Users
     • Designers engage with users to understand their needs.
   • Wizard of Oz Prototyping
     • It can be used to fake the functionality that you want to test with users.
   • Analogous Empathy
     • Analogies can be a powerful tool for developing insights that aren’t obvious.
   • User-Driven Prototyping
     • They are useful in early empathy work to facilitate a kind of conversation.
   • Story Share-and-Capture
     • The end goal is to understand what is really going on with each user.
   • Identify a Variable
     • Test it helps you understand what kind of prototype you are going to create.
   • I Like, I Wish, What If
     • It is a simple tool to encourage open feedback.
   • Assume a Beginner’s Mindset
     • Assume a beginner’s mindset in order to put aside the biases.
   • Saturate and Group
     • The goal is to synthesize data to you in creating design solutions.
   • Empathy Map
     • It is one tool to help you synthesize observations and draw out unexpected.
   • Journey Map
     • It can be used for your own empathy work, or to communicate your findings.
   • Composite Character Profile
     • It can be used to bucket interesting observations into one specific character.
   • Powers of Ten
     • It is a reframing technique that can be used as a synthesis or ideation method.
   • Prototype to Decide
     • A prototype can frequently resolve team disagreements and help a team decide.
   • Testing with Users
     • It is a fundamental part of a human-centered design approach.
   • Prototype to Test
     • The way you test your prototypes is by letting users experience them.
   • Prototype for Empathy
     • It is common practice to test prototypes with users to evaluate solutions.
   • Impose Constraints
     • Imposing constraints with intention can increase your creative potential.
   • 2x2 Matrix
     • It is tool to scaffold conversation about your users and problem space.
   • Point-of-View Want Ad
     • It can be a good way to express your distilled findings in an intriguing format.
   • Bodystorming
     • It is a unique method that spans empathy work, ideation, and prototyping.
   • Critical Reading Checklist
     • It is a tool used to determine whether a team has arrived at a meaningful, unique POV.
   • Design Principles
     • They are strategies to solve a design challenge independent of a specific solution.
   • “How Might We” Questions
     • HMW questions are short questions that launch brainstorms.
   • Point-of-View Analogy
     • It can be a concise way to capture how you define the design challenge.
   • Brainstorming
     • It is a great way to come up with a lot of ideas.
   • Point-of-View Madlib
     • It provides a scaffolding to develop your point-of-view (POV).
   • Facilitate a Brainstorm
     • Good facilitation is key to a generative brainstorm.
   • Why-How Laddering
     • It can be used to flesh out a number of needs, and find a middle stratum.
   • Selection
     • When ideating design solutions give some thought to how you select ideas.
   • Stoke
     • Stoke activities help teams loosen up and become mentally and physically active.