A workshop exploring how the rules and patterns of Improv can help super charge your design thinking skills

1. IMPROVISATION
FOR
DESIGN THINKERS

2. AGENDA
Design Thinking
Improv
Empathise
Define
Ideate
Theory
Games
Reflection
Design Challenge

3. HOW YOU NEED TO BE
Present
Open
Non Judgmental
Having Fun

4. EMPATHISE DEFINE IDEATE PROTOTYPE TEST
TODAY
DESIGN
THINKING?
WHAT IS
Undefined Problems
Human Centered
Methodology Based

5. IMPROV?
WHAT IS
Theatre
Unscripted
Playful
Pattern Based

6. DESIGN
THINKING
IMPROV +
People Focused
Collaborative
Iterative
Messy

7. YES AND
- RULE -

8. PLAN A
PARTY
- GAME -

9. EMBRACE
FAILURE
- RULE -

10. HAH – SOH – KAH
- GAME -

11. MAKE YOUR
PARTNER LOOK
GOOD
- RULE -

12. ONE WORD
AT A TIME
- GAME -

13. IMPROV
101
- TAKE AWAY -
Yes And
Embrace Failure
Make Your Partner
Look Good

14. DESIGN CHALLENGE
How do we help
Singaporeans be healthier?

15. EMPATHISE
- 1 -
Put Yourself In Their
Shoes
Understand Context
What Do They Really
Care About?

16. GIVE A SH!T
- RULE -

17. I GOT YOU
A GIFT
- GAME -

18. FIND THE
FEELING
- RULE -

19. I DO, YOU
SAY
- GAME -

20. EMPATHISE
- TAKE AWAY -
Give a Sh!t
Find The Feeling
Build Rapport
Understand Motive
Discover Context

21. HOW DO WE HELP SINGAPOREANS
BE HEALTHIER?
EMPATHISE
In groups, interview each other and find out:
What does “healthier” mean?
What are the behaviors?
What are the challenges?
How does context change things?
Why does it matter?

22. BREAK
5

23. DEFINE
- 2 -
Synthesise Findings
Articulate The Problem
To Be Solved
Build A Point Of View

24. MAKE
THINGS
OBVIOUS
- RULE -

25. SLIDE
SHOW
- GAME -

26. IF THIS IS
TRUE, WHAT
ELSE IS
TRUE
- RULE -

27. WORLD’S
BEST
- GAME -

28. DEFINE
- TAKE AWAY -
Make Things Obvious
If This Is True, What
Else Is True
Scope Tightly
Understand Levers
Map Out Constraints

29. HOW DO WE HELP SINGAPOREANS
BE HEALTHIER?
DEFINE
In groups, frame the problem to be solved:
Who is it for, what is the goal, and why do
they care?
What are the components?
What are the assumptions?
What are the constraints and levers of the
system?

30. IDEATE
- 3 -
Explore The Problem
Space
Quantity vs Quality
Defer Judgment

31. BUILD ON
THE IDEAS
OF OTHERS
- RULE -

32. I AM A
TREE
- GAME -

33. IT’S OK TO
LET GO
- RULE -

34. FREEZE
- GAME -

35. IDEATE
- TAKE AWAY -
Build On The Ideas of
Others
It’s OK To Let Go
Be Non Obvious
Defer Judgment
Challenge Assumptions

36. HOW DO WE HELP SINGAPOREANS
BE HEALTHIER?
IDEATE
In groups, explore the problem space:
What are the common ways to solve?
What other context has a similar solution?
What are you reminded of?
How can you apply more force to a lever?
What if your assumptions were untrue?

37. Yes And
Embrace Failure
Make Your Partner
Look Good
Give a Sh!t
Find The Feeling
Make Things Obvious
If This is True, What
Else is True
Build On The Ideas of
Others
It’s OK To Let Go
RULES

38. NOTES
- CLOSING -
It’s Not About The
Rules
Mindset Matters
Everything Will be OK

39. SCENE
- AND-
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