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DESIGN THINKING FOR
EDUCATORS
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Also known as: How to be human. It’s Nice. You’ll like it.
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Welcome to Flight School

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Fast, Curious, Refreshing, Awkward, Fun.
Be Open. Be Generous. Give it a go.
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Today will Feel….

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If
Listen for a moment. What do you hear?
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If
Listen one more time. What else do you notice?
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Empathy
Empathy is the cornerstone of design thinking.
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Some people like definitions…
Design Thinking applies the tools and processes from the design
disciplines (architecture, landscape architecture, interior design,
graphic design, product design, apparel design and others) to solve
problems.
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IDEO Shopping Cart Design
5 day Shopping Cart Challenge
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Design Thinking Process
Adapted from Stanford d.school and designthinkingforeducators.com
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Blah Blah Blah.
Let’s Play.
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Remember the last gift you gave someone?
Let’s redesign the gift giving experience for another person.
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If You’re a Process Person…
The next slides go through the process of design thinking. They are
shown as linear steps, but remember, life doesn’t always follow a perfect
linear path from A to B. Neither does design thinking.
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DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE
The Process Visualized
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DISCOVERY
Observe. Engage. Immerse.
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You Are Here
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Assume a Beginner’s Mindset
Empathy requires intentional Observation
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Tactic: Interviews
Encourage stories, observe emotion & body language, ask why?
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Tactic: Analogous Inspiration Maps
Create inspiration boards for insights
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INTERPRETATION
Searching for Insights & Scope a Challenge
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You Are Here
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Tactic: Story Share and Capture
Unpack Observations and Get Team Members up to Speed
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Tactic: Saturate and Group
Organize information & Synthesize Data
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Tactic: Empathy Map
Create a Deep Understanding of the User
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Tactic: Composite Character Profile
Focus on Salient and Relevant Characteristics of the Composite Character
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IDEATION
Defer Judgment. Go for Quantity. Get wild.
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You Are Here
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Tactic: Attribute Listing
List shape, texture, feel, size, details. What is 1 attribute you might
change/add/remix?
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Tactic: Brain Writing
Write three ideas. Pass it on. Build on what others have written.
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Tactic: Harvest: Cluster & Vote
Cluster ideas into themes. Write the theme on one large post-it. Vote
(using the small round stickers) on 2 of your favorite themes.
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EXPERIMENTATION
(PROTOTYPING)
Time to get those ideas out of your head and into your hands.
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You are Here
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Tactic: Testing with Users
Take your idea and remix a current lesson plan.
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TACTIC: Prototype to Test
What do you hope to test with the users? What sorts of behaviors do
you expect? How will you gather feedback?
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EVOLUTION
(ITERATIONS)
Fail Fast. Fail Forward. Fail Better.
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TACTIC: Feedback Capture Grid
What did users like or disklike? What kinds of questions did the process
inspire? Was there any constructive criticism to inform an iteration?
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TACTIC: Pitch Your Idea
Do you need to go back to the drawing board? Did you frame the
problem correctly
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Aw…yeah….
Let’s throw in a mix tape.
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An experienced design thinker
maintains a mindset which
instinctively reframes problems
into opportunities.
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What If? How Might We?
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WHAT STICKS?
WHAT’S CIRCLING?
Before you leave…
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Thank you for being crazy. You’re my kind of people.