takeaway design thinking
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Three Key Takeaways
1. Empathy Map for the Stakeholder 2. Multiple prototypes so the stakeholder
feels comfortable accepting and rejecting options
3. Prototyping as if you are right, testing as if you are wrong
Experimenting with Design Thinking Skills/Mindsets in Context
• Empathy Map for my Stakeholders • Brainstorming 50 ideas • Low fidelity prototyping as a conversation
starter • Multiple prototypes • Testing at early stages of projects • Feedback Quad Chart
Application of Design Thinking to Problems in Field
Problems • Many of the problems we face in research are open-
ended and high consequent. Design thinking allows for unconstrained brainstorming that could yield a number of candidate solutions to the problem. When faced with failure, there is a repository of other ideas to draw from.
Industry • Parts of the design thinking process provides a good
model for iterating with a sponsor of funding – Empathy map, Prototyping, Testing
• Can be incorporated to an Agile development process