Bootcamp bootleg: Design Thinking

Bootcamp bootleg: Design Thinking

1. Design mindsets

   • Show Don’t Tell
     • Communicate your vision
   • Focus on Human Values
     • Empathy for the people you are designing
   • Embrace Experimentation
     • It is an integral part of your innovation process
   • Craft Clarity
     • Produce a coherent vision out of messy problems
   • Be Mindful Of Process
     • Know where you are in the design process
   • Bias Toward Action
     • Doing and making over thinking and meeting
   • Radical Collaboration
     • Innovators with varied backgrounds and viewpoints

2. Modes

   • Empathize
     • What is the empathize mode?
       • The foundation of a human-centered design process
         • Observe
         • Engage
         • Immerse
   • Define
     • What is the define mode?
       • Is when you unpack and synthesize your empathy
         • findings into compelling needs and insights, and scope a specific and meaningful challenge
   • Ideate
     • What is the ideate mode?
       • Is the mode of your design process
         • In which
           • you aim to generate radical design alternatives
   • Prototype
     • What is the prototype mode?
       • Getting ideas and explorations
         • out of your head
           • and into the physical world
   • Test
     • What is the test mode?
       • Is the chance to get feedback on your solutions
         • refine solutions to make them better
           • And continue to learn about your users

3. Methods

   • The most important are:
     • Assume a Beginner’s Mindset
       • Why?
         • We all carry our experiences, understanding, and expertise with us
       • How?
         • Don’t judge
         • Question everything
         • Be truly curious
         • Find patterns
         • Listen
     • What?, How?, Why?
       • Why?
         • Is a tool that can help you drive
           • to deeper levels of observation
       • How?
         • Dividing in three sections:
           • Start with concrete observations (What)
           • Move to understanding (How)
           • Step out on a limb of interpretation (Why)
     • Story Share-and-Capture
       • Why?
         • A team share serves at least three purposes
       • How?
         • Unpack observations and air all the stories that stick out to you about what you saw and heard during your empathy fieldwork
     • Powers of Ten
       • Why?
         • Allows the design team to use an intentional approach
           • to
             • considering the problem at varied magnitudes of framing
       • How?
         • Insight development
         • Ideation
     • Why-How Laddering
       • Why?
         • You can use why-how laddering to flesh out a number of needs, and find a middle stratum of needs that are both meaningful and actionable
       • How?
         • Write that need on the board and then ladder up from there
           • by asking 'why'
     • Brainstorming
       • Why?
         • It is a great way to come up with a lot of ideas that you would not be able to generate
           • by just sitting down with a pen and paper
       • How?
         • Scribe
           • Capturing on the board ideas that team members call out
         • All-in
           • Each person will write down each of his or her ideas
             • and verbally share it with the group