1. The document discusses key lessons from a design thinking course, including that failure provides opportunities to find successful ideas, visual representations help bring ideas to life, and effective ideation requires a clear problem statement. 2. It recommends using ideation in a laboratory environment to generate staff ideas and empower involvement in workplace improvements. 3. The concluding section encourages applying design thinking principles and provides a graphic map of the process from empathy to testing prototypes while overcoming fears of failure.

1. Key Takeaways/Learnings
1. Failure is an opportunity
a. The design thinking process is built on feedback and failure. Failure is one way that your idea didn’t work, so that means that there is an idea that will
work. The one thing that was reinforced by this course is that one shouldn’t be afraid to fail magnificently.
2. Visual Representations
a. Visual representations bring ideas to life through prototyping. An idea in one’s head can be the greatest idea of all time, but it will never come to fruition
if not prototyped and tested.
3. Ideation
a. The ideate process is a very good process to generate ideas to create a solution, but what is the most significant part of ideation is having a viable
problem statement.
Step 2
1. Ideation would be the best method of the design thinking process to utilize in a laboratory environment. It not only solicits ideas from the staff, but it allows for
the empowerment of the staff to have a say in their work environment.
Take It Home: Apply Design Thinking
Three-Dimensional Quality (3DQual) Design Thinking
Calvin Ball
Graphic Map/Representation
Amazed at the
number of IdeasMy idea of
Design
Thinking
Empathy
Map
Excitement Afraid to Fail
Procrastinate
Ideation Prototype
and Test
Test
Fail!!! Learn