A design thinking workshop in the times of CODIV

Sometimes pressure and time constraints lead to some interesting ideas. In September, with very short notice I prepared and ran a Design Thinking workshop for my team that paid for itself three times: my team learned a few new things, we worked on our product and we had a lot of fun. 

Here is the recipe for the workshop

  1. Consider each of the user groups of your product
  2. Create a team for each user group (two people can be a group)
  3. Each team goes through the design thinking process for their user group

My team of eight was split into four groups of two, each team with the task of going through the design thinking process with one user group of the product we are building together. All resources where prepared so that the workshop could be done remotely.

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Test ideas with design thinking

If you cringed when you read the title, then this article is for you. I was in your shoes when I did my first design thinking workshop, skeptical. Eight years later I can say that the design thinking process and the skills you develop by using the process have been invaluable at work and my personal life.

Here are my top three reasons why you might want to take another look at design thinking and incorporate it into everything you do. 

Photo by Dan-Cristian Pădureț on Unsplash
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