This document outlines an episode of a design thinking game. It thanks various people and organizations for their support. It then describes a fishing game warm up activity meant to embrace diversity and understand participant's concerns. It provides details on an OpenIdeo challenge to improve education outcomes for children in emergencies. It lists opportunity areas the challenge addresses and outlines the game with multiple rounds meant to help define problems from different stakeholder perspectives. It encourages thinking about getting involved in the challenge and joining a Slack channel to discuss design thinking.
10. OpenIdeo Challenge
How might we improve educational outcomes for children
and youth - particularly girls - in emergency situations?
11. OPPORTUNITY
AREAS
addressing one or more of the following areas:
● Improving delivery of and access to education through technology
● Increasing participating in education by enabling children and youth to feel safe
● Enhancing the quality and relevance of educational content and delivery
● Enabling local communities to support education delivery, access, and sustainability
15. Problem Statement
The problem of > what?
Affects > who?
The impact of which > consequences
Example:
Medibank onlines sales
The problem of keen prospects not completing the join process
Affects potential customers and Medibank
The impact of which they don't go through with their purchase and
Medibank loses a potential member and sale.
17. TAKEAWAY
● Everyone (don’t forget the stakeholders) has a different perception of
a problem
● Empathise and view problems from the different perspectives
● Design thinking allows you and your organisation to ask the right
questions and define the problems to solve.
20. We host a Slack channel all about design thinking and user
experiences. We’d love for you to join the conversation.
Want in? Email us at designthinkinggames@gmail.com.
JOIN THE DESIGN THINKING GAMES SLACK
GROUP
Editor's Notes
Introduction/Welcome
Who we are (short spill) // House keeping // Thank our sponsors
Frank will have 2 minutes to talk about Academy Xi
MIKTA is an innovative partnership that brings together Mexico, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Turkey, and Australia. It is a consultative forum, aimed at advancing members’ shared interests in an international system that is fit for purpose in the 21st century. The Australian Government created the innovationXchange to catalyse and support innovation across the Australian aid program. The innovationXchange identifies, trials and scales up successful approaches. It also forms partnerships to share knowledge and broker new connections so that innovation becomes intrinsic to the delivery of the whole aid program.
The problem of > what?
Affects > who?
The impact of which > consequences
Create the right alignment in thinking within an organisation.
We hope after this episode, you have learnt that everyone/stakeholders has/have a different perception of a problem and it is important to empathise and view problems from all the different lenses.
By using design thinking process to understand the challenge, it allows you/your organisation to ask experts the right questions which lead you/your organisation to define the right problems to solve for.
Feel free to continue working on the challenge with your team and upload your solutions onto OpenIdeo challenge page.
We hope everyone loved this episode as much as the first. Feel free to leave us feedbacks on post-its and stick it to the wall on the right before you leave. You can tell us how much you love this session, what you feel can be improved and what you like to see for the next episode.