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INTRO TO
Design
Thinking
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Agenda
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1 : 3 0 G O O D B Y E
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Formulate
“How Might We…”
questions
THE BRIEF
Identify a challenge.
Don’t assume the
answer in the
question.
Be open enough for discovery,
be specific enough for direction.
ex. How might we
create a dripless ice
cream cone?
ex. How might we redesign ice-
cream to be more portable?
ex. You can’t eat ice-cream
everywhere you want to
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INTRO TO
Design
Thinking
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First, it’s a
perspective
DESIGN THINKING
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with a focus
on people
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DESIGN THINKING
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A human-centered approach to innovation
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Design as
a holistic
approach
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DESIGN THINKING
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Creating value between offerings
PRODUCTBUSINESS
SERVICEDIGITAL
BRAND
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We create
options
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DESIGN THINKING
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Conventional Business Practise Vs. Design Thinking Approach
MAKE
CHOICES
Converge
MAKE
CHOICES
ConvergeDiverge
CREATE
OPTIONS
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Do/Think
Think/Do
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DESIGN THINKING
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Iterate. Iterate. Iterate again
REFINE PROTOTYPE
FEEDBACK
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The 4 steps of a
Design Thinking
approach.
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LEARN
Insight
DO
ABSTRACT
REAL
Inspiration Implementation
Ideation
Insights
Ideation
Implementation
and the flow…
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Inspiration
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Design Research
INTRODUCTION TO
LEARN
REAL
Inspiration
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We believe:
The better we can empathise with people,
the easier we can create value for them –
and success for organisations.
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DESIGN RESEARCH
How we
do it
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rObserve
and listen
in context
DESIGN RESEARCH
As people don’t always say
what they do, or why.
Asking a person with arthritis to show us; how they open their
medication can reveal design opportunities
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Look
towards
extremes
DESIGN RESEARCH
EXTREME
USER
Speaking to a person who built his own electric vehicle
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Explore
analogous
experiences
DESIGN RESEARCH
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Experiencing what it’s like to ride in a self-driving car by riding a tandem
bike
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Immerse
yourself
DESIGN RESEARCH
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Recording an experience to share with others
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Let’s make a
research plan
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Recognize Existing Knowledge
Identify People to Speak With
Choose Research Methods (choose 3 as a team)
• Observation
• Analogous Inspiration
• Individual Interview
• In-Context Immersion
• Self-Documentation
• Expert Interviews
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Interview help for today
• Introduce yourself and your project
• Don’t ask leading questions
• Ask to “show”, not “tell”
• Why?…and why?…and why?
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Go.
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LEARN
Synthesis
Insights
INTRODUCTION TO
ABSTRACT
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“Synthesis is the art of meaning-making,
Pattern finding, and Direction setting.”
Observations
and findings
Insights and
Opportunities
SYNTHESIS
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SYNTHESIS
How we
do it
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Tell
Stories
SYNTHESIS
Get immersed in the research
findings, get thoughts down
on paper.
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Look for
patterns and
tensions
Identify key themes to get a
sense of priority and hierarchy
from findings.
SYNTHESIS
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Extract
insights
SYNTHESIS
Define a message that sets
the design problem in a new
light.
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Use
frameworks
SYNTHESIS
Find the strongest
visualisation to tell the
message.
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How to
Synthesise
ACTIVITY
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•Tell stories. Some things to get the ball rolling
… who was the person?
… what surprised you?

… what did you learn?
… what did you find inspiring?
… what other HMW’s can you think of?

•Capture what was said on post-its

•Analyse and interpret meaning

•Look for patterns and create buckets / theme
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Generating Ideas
INTRODUCTION TO
ABSTRACT
Ideation
DO
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Formulate
“How Might We…”
questions
SYNTHESIS
Choose some opportunity
areas and formulate the
challenge in a positive way.
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“If you want to have good ideas
you must have many ideas”
Linus Pauling
Nobel Prize winning Chemist
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GENERATING IDEAS
BRAINSTORM RULES
How we
do it
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Defer
judgement
GENERATING IDEAS
There are no bad ideas at this point. 

There’s plenty of time to judge later.
WINNER
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Encourage
wild ideas
GENERATING IDEAS
It’s the wild ideas that often provide the
breakthroughs. It is always easy to bring
ideas down to earth later.
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Build on the
ideas of others
GENERATING IDEAS
Think ‘and’ rather than ‘but’.
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Stay focussed
on the topic
GENERATING IDEAS
You get better output if
everyone is disciplined.
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One conversation
at a time
GENERATING IDEAS
That way all ideas can be heard
and built upon.
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Be
visual
GENERATING IDEAS
Try to engage the left and right
side of the brain.
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Headline
your idea
GENERATING IDEAS
Communicate the essence,
without a long speech.
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Go for quantity
(not quality)
GENERATING IDEAS
Set an outrageous goal and
surpass it.
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GENERATING IDEAS
BRAINSTORM RULES
How to
ideate
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Defer judgment
Go for volume
One conversation at a time
Be visual
Build on the ideas of others
Stay on topic
Encourage wild ideas
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•Assign a moderator who can keep time, collect
ideas and maintain the brainstorm rules
•Visualise your ideas on post-its, Go for quantity!
Collect all idea post-its on flip-charts!

•Spend 5-10 minutes brainstorming per question
If you get stuck, move on to another HMW

•At the end, vote on your top 3 ideas
That the team feels like developing further
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Prototyping
INTRODUCTION TO
REAL
DO
Implementation
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“Prototyping allows us to fail early
so we can succeed sooner”
David Kelley
IDEO Founder
A prototype is anything that helps you communicate or
test an experience with other people to get feedback
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PROTOTYPING
How we
do it
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Rough
to
Inspire
PROTOTYPING
WHAT COULD BEBuild to think
Embrace failure
Just good enough
Gyrus ENT
“One of the first things we noticed was the tangle of wires and awkward hand positions”-
Andrew
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“During an early brainstorm, we used office supplies to prototype an instrument for a neutral hand position.”
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Rapid
to
Evolve
PROTOTYPING
WHAT SHOULD BEBuild to experiment
Expect changes
Define sensibilities
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Story
Time
ACTIVITY
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•What is the name of your idea?
•Who is it for?
•What is the solution?
•Why people need it?
•What evidence do you have?
•What are your next steps?