Mash-up

  1. Divide the wall in four sections:  human needs, global goals challenges, technology and mash-up. 2. Starting with human needs, write down as many ideas that you have, one per post it (for example, love, waking up, sporting, eating. Use max five minutes per section. 3. Move on to the global goals challenges. Depending… Read more »

Dark side

1. Arrange a room where you can focus and work for a couple of hours. 2. Write down your design challenge and reframe it in the most negative way possible. For example, “How can we make our city more sustainable” becomes “How can we make our city the most polluted city of the world?” 3…. Read more »

People Planet Profit

1. Print out the People Planet Profit template. 2. Write down a short description of your idea. 3. Describe how your idea facilitates well being for all the different stakeholders. Rate your idea on the right hand column based on the concepts described there. 4. Describe how your concept aims to benefit the natural order… Read more »

Emoji story

1. Go through the collected data on context, the user and possible problems, etc. 2. Pick one specific scene that you feel is relevant and depicts an opportunity and design challenge. 3. Write a short story, first only with words. 4. Choose which elements and feelings should be highlighted and change them with Emoji’s.

Empathy in action

1. Analyze data that the team has gathered. 2. Do a brainstorm on how to make people that are completely unfamiliar with the topic, quickly understand and empathize with the problem. 3. Develop a quick prototype of a physical experience and test it within your own team. 4. Collect feedback, and use what you have… Read more »

Day in the life

1. Based on your design question, define the activities that you want to understand better. 2. Find participants that are willing to be followed for some hours (or even an entire day). 3.Arrange/schedule to follow participants throughout their day/activities. 4. Make sure you have materials to capture the data that the participants feel comfortable with… Read more »

Video prototyping

1. Select a concept to prototype, Split the concept into steps that need to be shown and explained. 2. Write a script that clearly explains all the steps of the solution and how they work within the desired context. 3. Create a storyboard based on the script. 4. Organize everything that is needed to proceed… Read more »

ViP (Design)

Continued from ViP (Deconstruct) 1. Analyze your stories. Make sure you understand how the principles, states, trends, developments and trends have shaped the product/service and how it fits in a context. 2. Write down your statement, this is what you aim to achieve with your design, for example I want people to feel happier during… Read more »

ViP (Deconstruct)

1. Organize a team, and a room with materials, such as markers and flipboard sheets. 2. Deconstruct the product, think of the reasons why the product has its current form. Make a very clear description making sure you can identify the product on the description alone. 3. Deconstruct the interaction and describe it. Make sure… Read more »

Future workshop

1. Define the concept that will be the main objective of the workshop. 2. Recruit participants for the session and make sure everything has been arranged, (paper, pens, markers, meeting room, etc.) 3. Select a moderator to introduce the topic of the session and explain the objectives. 4. Ask participants to reflect on the present… Read more »