18 April 2017 I lectured about Design Thinking and Prototyping at the British Aerosol Manufacturers' Assocation. The audience was about 100 people and consisited of directors, product managers and technical engineers with a focus on aerosol innovations
5. Han Toebast
Design Strategist
› >15 year active in strategy,
innovation & design
› Working for corporates, non-for-
profits and start-ups
› Aims for digital chances
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Design thinking.
Left Brain
Left + Right
Brain
Right Brain
Rational &
Structured
Switching
Emotional &
Intuitive
Iterating SynthesisAnalysis
Source: Illustrations: VanBerlo (2014), Text: Brand Driven innovation, by Erik Roscam Abbing, (2010) ASA Publishing.
Business Thinking Design Thinking Creative Thinking
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Design thinking.
Well defined
problems
Ill defined
problems
Undefined
problems
Needs to be
solved
Problem is the
start
There is no
problem
Zoom in & out HolisticsFocus on parts
Source: Illustrations: VanBerlo (2014), Text: Brand Driven innovation, by Erik Roscam Abbing, (2010) ASA Publishing.
Business Thinking Design Thinking Creative Thinking
15. VanBerlo Approach
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Grow
Value creation, value
communication and value capture
are at the core of innovation. It’s
what we help our clients create,
improve and contemplate.
Empathise
We feel that design is equal to
understanding human needs
and behaviour. It’s our starting
point in all we do.
Achieve
Complex challenges? Love
them! We dare to show you
our solutions, and bring them
into reality.
Fundament for good innovations
16. Where the
magic happens
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Grow
Value creation, value
communication and value capture
are at the core of innovation. It’s
what we help our clients create,
improve and contemplate.
Empathise
We feel that design is equal to
understanding human needs
and behaviour. It’s our starting
point in all we do.
Achieve
Complex challenges? Love
them! We dare to show you
our solutions, and bring them
into reality.
27. Atus
SmartBadge
Atus hit a homerun with the
SmartBadge; a thin, lightweight
personal alarm badge with a
sophisticated e-paper display.
Together with a smart phone app, this
badge allows public sector personnel
to communicate quickly and efficiently
in the event of an emergency, where
every second counts.
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28. J. Douwe Egberts
Promesso
The Promesso coffee machine offers
taste, experience and design.
Tailored to the requirements of the
ever-changing modern office
environment, this new coffee machine
is easy to handle and maintain.
This coffee machine encompasses a
unique combination of premium
coffee, ultimate personalisation.
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29. ROYAL AUPING
BETTER DAYS APP
On average, in our lifetime, we spend
about 25 years in bed. Quality sleep
and rest, are vital to our wellbeing
and performance during the day.
VanBerlo helped Auping to create the
Better Days app. An app that
analyses your (sleep) data, and
provides sleep coaching and
personalised recommendations for a
suitable mattress.
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30. What to remember
› Design thinking is no rocket science !
› Start with the end in mind, but don’t fixate too much
› Don’t be afraid of wicked problems.
› Iterate and accelarate :-)
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Today has been on mind mind for a couple of weeks now. I have been looking forward to his. It’s awesome to be here today? Doesn’t feel great, united?
Not sure if its proper English. It’s a direct translation of delen is het nieuwen hebben. It means. That in this modern day society it become more valuable to share rather than to own. Its not only about caring. Its about growing. Together.
One of the life goals of Millenials. Share !
So here is the ‘million dollar question. Should you own or should you share?
Designers know what their good at, but what they even know better is what their not good at. We like to work together. Enrichment from all different perspectives. This means we have to share our knowledge. So let’s start.
But let me first introduce myself.
My name is Han Toebast… And I strongly believe in values. Value of relations, value of interactions, but mostly the value of creativity. The change of perspective you can apply being creative. leads to great new business ideas, surprising solutions and interesting ways to catch the attention of your customer. Today my talk is about creative processes.
I also brought a colleague. Roelof is one of my 90 colleagues and leads the FMCG design & engineering team.
Roelof, can you please show your self to the audience
Here is a couple of the projects we are responsible for in the FMCG market
Enough spoken about ourselves. Lets start with design thinking.
Any ideas who could be the most famous design thinker ? <ask audience>
Well, if you ask me . Its this guy.
As a true scientist, he he questioned almost anything during his carreer.
Do you really think that he found out we don't age if we run faster than the speed of light by following a normal, genuine theoretical approach. No I am pretty sure he used a different perspective than before.
But be careful. One should not jump to conclusions to fast.
Here is a an example. Talking about perspective, but also perception. Who can tell me what this is?
When you become to right brain orientated you maybe saw somebodies signature or even a new way of presenting heartbeats.
So here you see its important to switch between analystics and synthesis.
Let me share a bit more on how to place design thinking in between business and art.
The cross over is the most important part.
The fundamental activity of a lean startup is to turn ideas into products, measure how customers respond, and then learn whether to pivot or persevere. All successful startup processes should be geared to accelerate that feedback loop.
Listen . Learn , respond, …….
The fundamental activity of a lean startup is to turn ideas into products, measure how customers respond, and then learn whether to pivot or persevere. All successful startup processes should be geared to accelerate that feedback loop.
So how does that look like
Bring various materials to the table. Also the ones that at frst glance don’t link to much to the proposition.
Notice the tennis bal and the wellness gear ?
Hold, aim, trigger, bingo.
Testing ergonomics nowadays is easy using software, but nothing beats a good old physical test. 3D printing techniques or even using Virtual Reality make this easy as pie.
Creating stimuli to determine what does not work. That enables us to more easily define what actually works. Could feel a bit counterproductve, but leads to very surpsing insights
If you unscramble Assume, it reads make an Ass of U and Me. So be very carefull with assumptions. Start testing early. IN this case we are testing an interface of a brand new professional coffee machine.
We designers love to test concepts, user flows, user experiences, use cycles, etc. All these test results will lead to a better result, once incporated in the next sprint.
Using new materials. In this example one of my colleagues is redesign a pager
You know these devices used by nurses and doctors in hospitals. By using an e-Paper we could all of a sudden add extra functionality. Which before was nit possible as a consequences of the lack of battery power.
Seen the movie Frankenstein ?
This is what we call a Frankenstein model. It does the job, can give us feedback on the concept we created and more over, will give an idea on the potential and technical challenges we can give the engineers.
An extra advntage is thst you don’t run into discussions about colors and all sorts of form factors. Its just an ugly piece of equipment that does the job
Be pragmatic !
Design is no rocket science. In this example you see a couple of graphs created as a result of measuring our own sleep cycles.
These were basis of the design of the algorithm we created for an app for Auping, a leading Dutch Bed and Matress brand. With this app users are given challenges to impove their sleeping behaviour and get advice on buying the right matress.
With this example we show the dynamic link between the physical and the virtual world
Creating a flow of a day in the life of nurse gave us the insight on her needs and the sheer amount of stuff already in her pockets. Succes was granted if we could take some stuff out of her pockets.
And why not use also the smartphone she is wearing on her
Or in this case where we looked into the needs of office employees. What do they want to personilze ? What do they actually want to personalize? As a true Dutch guy I am allowed to drink a cappucino after 11 AM. So I let the machine give it to me. And how about gettinkg a coffee for your whole team with their personal preferences. All of a sudden the coffee machine becomes a team building device. .
With this machine you can really link preferences to people.
A surprising example of a barber shop that saves the favoroute cofee with somebodies hairdo and if they come back after some weeks you cut both ways