Design Thinking at Sparkloft

Design Thinking at Sparkloft

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  Design Thinking 101
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  Setting the Stage Brainstormingis an… $13,500 monthly process …not an innovative strategy Innovation is key to being competitive
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  The Innovation Issue Let’s get social 800 million Facebook users 300 million Twitter users 80% of all Americans use Social Media 3.5 billion pieces of content shared daily on Facebook 1.4 million new blog posts 35 hours of new video every minute Over $3 billion spent on advertising on social platforms Engagement and innovation are key
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  What is DesignThinking? Design Thinking (/dəˈzīn /ˈ / THiNGkiNG/) Design Thinking refers to the methods and processes for investigating ill-defined problems, acquiring information, analyzing knowledge, and positing solutions in the design and planning fields. As a style of thinking, it is generally considered the ability to combine empathy for the context of a problem, creativity in the generation of insights and solutions, and rationality to analyze and fit solutions to the context. Human Centered Design Method Visually Focused
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  d.Mindsets
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  d.Mindsets
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  The Process
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  Empathize Empathy is thefoundation of a human-centered design process. • Observe • Engage • Immerse Understand the audience - the problems we are trying to solve aren’t our own. Find (or create if necessary) experiences to immerse yourself to better understand the situation that your users are in, and for which you are designing. How can we empathize with our clients since we don’t directly interact with the audience?
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  Define Define Goals • Developa deeper understanding of your audience and design space • Come up with an actionable problem statement (your POV) Scope a specific/meaningful challenge by unpacking and synthesizing empathy findings. Your POV needs to be a guiding statement that focuses on specific users, needs and insights. The problem statement should inspire the team, provide a reference for completion, fuel “how might we” statements, and not be all things to all people. This should be the question posed to the team by the strategist.
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  Ideate Take the problemstatement defined by the strategy team and start exploring solutions. Goal: Explore a wide solution space – develop many diverse ideas. “Flare” don’t focus. Create fluency (volume) and flexibility (variety) in your innovation options. Drive the team beyond obvious solutions in the initial small team brainstorms – don’t feel like you have to develop the final product/solution/strategy.
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  Prototype Prototyping is gettingideas and explorations out of your head and into the physical world. The process allows you to quickly investigate many possibilities. Prototypes are most successful when you can interact with or experience them. It could be a wall of post-it notes, a roll-playing activity, an object or even a storyboard. Bring prototypes to the big team meetings – something visual will help develop ideas into solutions. After an idea is presented – the team takes a few minutes to focus it.
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  Test Refine solutions andmake them better. Place the ideas generated in the context of the user’s life. Prototype as if you know your right, but test as if you know you’re wrong. The strategist should take ideas generated from the team and find ways to test them with the client. What are some ways we can test since we don’t always have direct access to our end users?
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  Brainstorming 1. Pick aFacilitator – one person from the strategy team • Energy – keep the ideas flowing, tweak the scope • Constraints – add constraints to spark new ideas 2. Flare - Focus 15-30 minutes of high engagement idea flaring • Quantity over quality • Headline! • Build on the ideas of others • Encourage wild ideas • Be visual • Stay on topic • Defer judgment – NO blocking 3. Scribe – Write ALL ideas (use post-it-notes or a white board) 4. Selection • Group ideas – some ideas might fit well with others to make a more complete thought. • Vote on the group’s favorite
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  Techniques Empathy Map • Helpssynthesize your observations and draw out unexpected insights. • Unpack what your audience says, does, thinks and feels. • Identify Needs – the physical and emotional necessities. • Identifying Insights – something you could leverage to respond to challenges.
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  Techniques Composite Character Profile •Can be used to bucket interesting observations into one specific recognizable character. • Group “typical” characteristics, trends and other patterns identified in the user group. • Give them a name!
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  Techniques Powers of Ten •“What if we had more than a million dollar budget?” • “What if the budget was $0.25?” • Nationwide? Local? International?
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  Lets Try It! ProblemStatement • Portland Perks • Develop ways to promote Perks in 2012. • Primary target audience: women 35-64 living in Washington (except SW region) (think Seattle) and BC, Canada (think Vancouver) Directions • 10 minutes: Write down as many ideas as possible (just headlines) • 20 minutes: Select your favorite, develop a pitch and a prototype • 5 minutes: Pitch it to the team
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  Resources Bootcamp Bootleg http://dschool.stanford.edu/use-our-methods/ Dan Roam@ Google http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuA_yz7aTo0 ABC Nightline – IDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66ZU2PCIcM