Need-finding

[ Session 1 ]

Learn how to kick off a project and move from empathy-to-define using the DT process.

• Choose where to focus your creative energies

• Frame your own daily-ritual design challenge

• Identify needs by having empathy for yourself

• Dig deeper and draw out meaningful insights

• Define a DT-tyle needs statement

Solution-finding

[ Sessions 2 - 4 ]

Experience iteratively generating a new solution as you move through the ideate-prototype-test cycle.

• Ideate to explore new solution possibilities

• Select a concept direction to pursue

• Visualize how your new idea might actually work

• Prototype a new experience and prepare to test

• Test your new ritual/routine and iterate

Next Steps

[ Session 5 ]

See how to “plan” next steps when doing innovation work design-thinking-style.

• Review your work and the progress you made

• Reflect on how you might continue your project

• Chart a course forward and articulate what's next

• Debrief the design project & learning experience

• Share DT-style feedback

Teaching by showing. Learning by trying.

As a working example, I do the practice project myself, with unexpected outcomes!

• As a demo, I do the project “live” and share my work every step of the way

• My own design project takes a few unforeseen turns and reveals surprising new ideas! (your project will too!)

• In each session, I share real-time reflections and commentary on the creative process

• Overall, my “demo project” offers a practical glimpse into how design thinking actually works day-to-day