Bright Spark Instructional Guide

DESIGN THINKING INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE (2014)

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What is Bright Spark?

How to use this guide Creative Commons Growth Gage Survey Module 1 | Overview. Define Challenge.

Inspiration Module 2 | Forming Inspiration to Insight. Framing Opportunities Module 3 | Opportunities & Ideate Module 4 | Experiments Module 5 | Iterating & Testing Notes

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This leader guide provides a step-by-step instruction for workshop leaders and facilitators to conduct the workshop modules with confidence. The recommended student/teacher ratio for each workshop is 5:1 for optimum success. Additional preparation may include viewing web and video links to familiarize facilitators with the language and a better understanding of what Design Thinking is for society.

Workshop Objectives: • Ignite creative confidence • Learn the Design Thinking process • Apply the process to create prototype solutions

ABOUT THE FOUNDERS Bright Spark is an incubator project of the RSA Southeast and Bridge Innovate. The RSA Southeast is a division of the 27,000 member strong London based Royal Society of Arts, which has a 200 year history of fostering innovative solutions for today’s social challenges. Bridge Innovate a global business consultancy is certified in IDEO’s Design Thinking method and has an innovation track record of achievement in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors.

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Bright Spark provides the foundation for students to turn their innovative dreams into reality. We welcome you as a workshop leader or facilitator!

Enjoy and innovate creatively!

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Bright Spark is a nonprofit incubator project for youth, co-founded by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and Bridge Innovate. The five-module workshop is designed to ignite and inspire creative confidence. Students ages 10-16 will learn leading Design Thinking methods and tools used by innovators and designers around the world. During the workshop students will work in teams to research, brainstorm, and prototype solutions. The workshop incorporates IDEO’s Design Thinking methods, and includes materials from the d. school, the Institute of Design at Stanford.

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GETTING STARTED | HOW TO USE THIS LEADER GUIDE 1. Read the leader guide.

2. Prepare the materials (see leader material checklist included with the workshop worksheets).

Pre-work: • Participants complete application on Bright Spark website.

• Facilitators preview http://dschool.stanford.edu/crash-course-video/ • Participants complete growth gage survey prior to the first session.

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The icons shown below are placed throughout this Instructional Guide to provide helpful facilitation tips.

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VIDEO LINK

AFTER HOURS WORK

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OPTIONAL SIMULATION ExperiencePoint’s simulation, Design Thinker, builds innovation confidence and competence. Students under age 19 may participate in a four-hour simulation project from start to finish for a special rate of $45 per person.

Sessions require a minimum of 12 participants. Contact jenny.whitener@ bridgeinnovate.com for more information or to schedule a session. www.bridgeinnovate.com

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This Bright Spark Leader Guide is adapted from d.school. (dschool. stanford.edu). The d.school is a hub for innovators at Stanford. Students and faculty in engineering, medicine, business, law, the humanities, sciences, and education find their way there to take on the world’s messy problems together. Human values are at the heart of our collaborative approach. They focus on creating spectacularly transformative learning experiences. Students develop a process for producing creative solutions to even the most complex challenges they tackle.

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Participants are to complete the growth gage survey prior to the facilitation of module one.

This survey will be used to record participants progress. Please, encourage participants to complete the survey prior to module one online at www.bright-spark.org/#!about1/c1x1t .

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GROWTH GAGE SURVEY

The survey can be accessed via bright-spark.org under the INFO and then RESOURCES tab.

Make sure participants understand to complete only the PRE SESSION portion at this point.

It might be a good idea to have at least one digital device up and ready with the page loaded for this survey.

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An overview of the Design Thinking methodology, developed by IDEO. Tools are provided for participants to learn how to define a challenge and gather inspiration for a specific problem or opportunity.

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OVERVIEW. DEFINE CHALLENGE. INSPIRATION.

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One iPad or similar device for Internet search & photographs

3”x3” and 3”x5” Post it Pads (one pad per person)

Big Challenge Journey Map (long roll of paper)

Design Thinking Journey Map (long roll of paper)

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES • • •

To understand the definition of Design Thinking.

To become familiar with the Design Thinking process.

To learn techniques for gathering inspiration.

WARM UP | BIG CHALLENGE JOURNEY MAP Select 1-3 questions below to post onto the Big Challenge Journey Map...

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If If If If

you were a brilliant scientist, what cause would you work on? you had a cause to do a victory dance, what would it be? you were Sherlock Holmes, what big question would you like to solve? you could reinvent a Library what would you focus on?

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Example of the Big Challenge Journey Map

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“Design Thinking is about accelerating innovation to create better solutions to the challenges facing business and society. It starts with people - what we call human centered design - and applies the creative tools of design, like storytelling, prototyping, and experimentation, to deliver new break through innovations.” - Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO. Change By Design, 2009 Explain the VEN diagram: Great innovation is where desirability, viability and feasibility come together.

The IDEO Shopping Cart video • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66ZU2PCIcM If you have a sensitive crowd preview the video and skip sections of concern.

TASK | DESIGN THINKING JOURNEY MAP Using post it notes, map the video activities to the Methodology posted on the wall.

Example of the Design Thinking Journey Map

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Let’s see a team reinvent the shopping cart using Design Thinking.

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OVERVIEW | WHAT IS DESIGN THINKING?

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WORKSHEETS Distribute Design Thinking Worksheets 1A-1E for the exercise in Module 1.

OVERVIEW | LEARN DESIGN THINKING BY REDESIGNING THE GIFT GIVING EXPERIENCE Instead of just telling you about design thinking, we want to immediately have you jump right in and experience it for yourself. We are going to do a design project for about the next hour. This is going to feel rushed; that’s okay. There are 6 steps in the process.

STEP 1 | DEFINE THE CHALLENGE Start by defining the Challenge. Decide what challenge needs an assessment or a new solution.

A challenge is defined as an objection or query as to the truth of something, often with an understood demand for proof; to question or dispute the truth or validity of something. For this exercise, your challenge is to design a useful and meaningful gift giving experience for your partner.

STEP 2 | INSPIRATION Gather inspiration through observation and insights about the challenge.

STEP 3 | OPPORTUNITY Capture findings and define the challenge.

Catalog your findings with notes on needs and insights.

Try to synthesize your learning into a few ‘needs’ that you have discovered, and a few ‘insights’ that you find interesting. Needs should be verbs – think about it this way – in the process of giving a gift, what is your user actually trying to accomplish? What does gift giving do for THEM? Insights are discoveries to consider when creating solutions.

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Define an opportunity and sketch to ideate.

Define an opportunity: • This is your understanding of what would make gift giving meaningful for your partner.

• Take a stand by specifically stating the meaningful challenge you are going to take on.

• It should feel like a problem worth tackling!

• This is the statement that you’re going to address with your design, so make sure it’s juicy and actionable.

Example: Maybe you found that your partner is really trying to reunite the family; or reignite a lost love; or infuse adventure into a boring suburban existence; or reconnect with an old friend; or demonstrate his own creativity!

Share solutions and capture feedback to test your ideas.

• Spend time listening to your partner’s feedback.

• Fight the urge to defend your ideas. This is not about validation.

• This is an opportunity to learn more about your partner’s feelings and motivations (empathy).

STEP 5 | EXPERIMENT Build a prototype, share your solution, and get feedback.

Build!

• Create a physical prototype of your solution.

• Create an experience or make something that your partner can engage and react to.

• Feel free to focus the prototype on one aspect of the overall solution.

Share your solution and get feedback • Your prototype is not precious, but the feedback and new insights it draws out are!

• Don’t defend your prototype; instead, watch how your partner uses and misuses it.

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Brainstorm to Ideate: • Rewrite your opportunity statement at the top of the page as How Might We...

• Now you are creating solutions to the new challenge you’ve identified.

• GO FOR VOLUME! This is time for idea generation, not evaluation. Use post it notes to brainstorm ideas.

• You don’t have to draw well, stick figures and squiggly lines are A-OK! • Use Post it notes...and add an additional note to share ideas with the team - vocalize and write or draw ideas

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STEP 6 | GROUP GATHERING & DEBRIEF 1. How did engaging and testing with a real person, change the direction your prototype took?

2. What was it like showing unfinished work to another person?

3. How did the pace feel? Quick, iterative cycles – how did that feel relative to how you normally work?

4. Design thinking is an iterative, self-directed process. Based on what you learned – what would you go back and do differently? What would you do over again?

5. What principle, what tool, would you infuse into the work tomorrow?

Try these exercises: Set all the prototypes in the middle of the room.

• “Who had a partner who created something that you really like?”

• “Who sees something they are curious to learn more about?”

• “Who wants to share their experience?”

• “What part felt most uncomfortable to you?”

• “What felt most natural?”

• “How did the time pressure impact your work?”

• “How did it feel to show someone else unfinished work/work in such a low-resolution?”

• “As a USER, how did you interact with your partner’s lowly-resolved prototype; how did the level of resolution impact your experience as a user?

Ask participants how this Gift Giving Exercise touched each step of the Design Thinking process.

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Distribute Design Thinking Worksheets 1A-1E. (Consider printing 3 pages of worksheet 1A per participant)

DEFINE THE CHALLENGE Now that we have rapidly experienced Design Thinking through redesigning Gift Giving, let’s explore the method in more detail.

When you define a challenge think of it in its next larger context.

For example, a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in a neighborhood. Once you have the context right, think about the challenge as a human centered focus. For example, which challenge statement in this series is best for Design Thinking related to sustainability.

The answer is number three because it focuses on human centered solutions.

Next, explore the challenge you have selected for your workshop. For the purpose of this leader guide we are going to explore How to enhance the teen library experience.

STEP 1 | DEFINE THE CHALLENGE Proposed Statement: How might we enhance the teen library experience?

Have teams view one of the Library videos below.

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Use post it notes to note observations on the Teen Library Design Thinking Journey Map.

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1. Increase participation in towns recycling program from 40% to 50%.

2. Make the town the recognized green leader by solving all of its current and future environmental problems.

3. Increase sustainable behavior among the towns citizens.

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STEP 2 | INSPIRATION Great inspiration comes from a cross section of tools and techniques.

During the inspiration gathering phase, it is important to look for just the facts without judgment.

There are many tools for gathering inspiration. For this workshop we are going to focus on learning: • Interviews • Field Observations/photographs/sketches • Empathy Map • Story telling • What, How, Why Share a sample service innovation. This example shows Bank of Americas Keep the Change program. www.ideo.com/expertise/financialservices/

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Researchers observed: People rounded up paying bills. Moms dropped change in their purse after a purchase. People rounded up mentally after using a debit card to keep track of their bank account balance. All these observations, gave them the insight to create the Keep The Change program that resulted in 12 million new customers.

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We gain inspiration for innovation by gathering data, scanning for leading practices, and developing used empathy.

Empathy is the foundation of human-centered design process. To empathize, we: • Observe | View users and their behavior in the context of their lives.

• Engage | Interact with and interview users through both scheduled and short ‘intercept’ encounters.

• Immerse | Experience what your user experiences.

Why empathize?

As a human-centered designer you need to understand the people for whom you are designing. Watching what people do and how they interact with their environment gives you clues about what they think and feel. It also helps you to learn about what they need. Engaging with people directly reveals clues about the way they think and the values they hold. Sometimes these thoughts and values are not obvious to the people who hold them.

In addition to speaking with and observing your users, you need to have personal experience in the design space yourself. 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.

STEP 3 | OBSERVATIONS In teams with your facilitator (take your belongings with you), go on an observation of the Library.

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Think about observation from a beginner’s mindset … Just the facts, avoid judgment, look for work arounds and adaptations. Things people care about. Things that surprise you. What supports or derails learning?

Gathering data/learning environment information. Take photos and sketch observations with notes

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Engage to: • Uncover needs that people have which they may or may not be aware of.

• Guide innovation efforts.

• Identify the right users to design for.

• Discover the emotions that guide behaviors.

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WHAT IS INSPIRATION?

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Provide participants with the opportunity to form insights and frame opportunities as teams associated with a specific challenge. Teach the value of collaboration by forming and working in teams and the value of creating and recognizing good ideas.

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FROM INSPIRATION TO INSIGHT FRAMING OPPORTUNITIES

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Empathy Map Template

Design Thinking Worksheets From Previous Day

Teen Library Journey Map

Design Thinking Journey Map

LEARNING OBJECTIVES • • •

To learn several inspiration tools including interviews, empathy maps, the What, How, Why tool, and observation/data maps.

To learn how to look for great insights that are authentic, revealing and non-obvious.

To explore how to frame opportunities as ‘how might we’ statements.

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Post after-hours field research and observations on Journey Map. Print photos from their devices from library research of previous day.

Add questions to the Teen Library Journey Map.

Let’s see Design Thinking in Action Again (pick one) • • •

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We use observation to form great insights. Great insights are authentic, revealing, and non-obvious

ASSUME A BEGINNER’S MINDSET WHY assume a beginner’s mindset?

We all carry our experiences, understanding, and expertise with us.

These aspects of yourself are incredibly valuable assets to bring to the design challenge – but at the right time, and with intentionality. Your assumptions may be misconceptions and stereotypes, and can restrict the amount of real empathy you can build. Assume a beginner’s mindset in order to put aside these biases, so that you can approach a design challenge with fresh eyes.

INSPIRATION | OBSERVATIONS TO INSIGHTS Over the next hour, teams complete 3 observation techniques to uncover possible insights to help enhance the Teen Library Experience.

1. What/How/Why exercise from photo. (10 minutes) 2. Conduct an interview and complete an empathy map. (20 minutes) 3. Complete an observation map. (30 minutes) Participants to note their results in the Inspiration section of the Design Thinking worksheet.

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HOW to assume a beginner’s mindset?

Don’t judge | Just observe and engage users without the influence of value judgments upon their actions, circumstances, decisions, or “issues.”

Question everything | Question even (and especially) the things you think you already understand. Ask questions to learn about how the user perceives the world. Think about how a 4-year-old asks “Why?” about everything. Follow up an answer to one “why” with a second “why.”

Be truly curious | Strive to assume a posture of wonder and curiosity, especially in circumstances that seem either familiar or uncomfortable.

Find patterns | Look for interesting threads and themes that emerge across interactions with users.

Listen. Really | Lose your agenda and let the scene soak into your psyche. Absorb what users say to you, and how they say it, without thinking about the next thing you’re going to say.

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INSPIRATION | WHAT MAKES A GREAT INSIGHT?

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USE THE FOLLOWING IMAGE TO EMPATHIZE FOR THIS EXERCISE

WHY use What? How? Why? What? How? Why? Is a tool that can help you drive to deeper levels of observation.

This simple scaffolding allows you to move from concrete observations of a particular situation to the more abstract emotions and motives that are at play in that situation.

This is a particularly powerful technique to leverage when analyzing photos that your team has taken in the field, both for synthesis purposes, and to direct your team to future areas of need finding.

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WHAT? HOW? WHY? INFO SHEET

INSTRUCTIONS 1. Set-up: Divide a sheet into three sections: What?, How?, and Why? 2. Start with concrete observations (What): What is the person you’re observing doing in a particular situation or photograph? Notice and write down the details. Try to be objective and don’t make assumptions in this first part.

3. Move to understanding (How): How is the person you’re observing doing what they are doing? Does it require effort?

Do they appear rushed? Pained? Does the activity or situation appear to be impacting the user’s state of being either positively or negatively? Use descriptive phrases packed with adjectives.

4. Step out on a limb of interpretation (Why): Why is the person you’re observing doing what they’re doing, and in the particular way that they are doing it? This step usually requires that you make informed guesses regarding motivation and emotions. Step out on a limb in order to project meaning into the situation that you have been observing. This step will reveal assumptions that you should test with users, and often uncovers unexpected realizations about a particular situation.

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INTERVIEW FOR EMPATHY MAP INFO SHEET #1

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INTERVIEW PREPARATION WHY prepare for an interview?

Time with users is precious, we need to make the most of it! It is imperative to plan your interviews. You may not get to every question you prepare, but you should come with a plan for your interviews. You may not get to every question you prepare, you should come with a plan for engagement.

HOW to prepare for an interview?

Brainstorm Questions | Write down all of the potential questions your team can generate.

Try to build on one another’s ideas in order to flesh out meaningful subject areas.

Identify and order themes | Similar to “grouping” in synthesis, have your team identify themes or subject areas into which most questions fall; once you’ve identified the themes of your question-pool, determine the order that would allow the conversation to flow most naturally.

Refine Questions | Once you have all the questions grouped by theme and order, refine your questions removing redundancies. Make sure you are planning to ask plenty of “why? questions.

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INTERVIEW FOR USER EMPATHY MAP INFO SHEET #2

WHY use an empathy map?

Good design is grounded in a deep understanding of the person for whom you are designing.

Designers have many techniques for developing this sort of empathy. An Empathy Map is one tool to help you synthesize your observations and draw out unexpected insights.

HOW to use an empathy map?

UNPACK: Create a four quadrant layout on paper or a white-board. Populate the map by taking note of the following four traits of your user as you review your notes, audio, and video from your fieldwork: SAY: What are some quotes and defining words your user said?

DO: What actions and behaviors did you notice?

THINK: What might your user be thinking? What does this tell you about his or her beliefs?

FEEL: What emotions might your subject be feeling?

Note that thoughts/beliefs and feelings/emotions cannot be observed directly. They must be inferred by paying careful attention to various clues. Pay attention to body language, tone, and choice of words.

IDENTIFY NEEDS: “Needs” are human emotional or physical necessities. Needs help define your design challenge. Remember: Needs are verbs (activities and desires with which your user could use help), not nouns (solutions). Identify needs directly out of the user traits you noted, or from contradictions between two traits – such as a disconnect between what she says and what she does. Write down needs on the side of your Empathy Map. IDENTIFY INSIGHTS: An “Insight” is a remarkable realization that you could leverage to better respond to a design challenge. Insights often grow from contradictions between two user attributes (either within a quadrant or from two different quadrants) or from asking yourself “Why?” when you notice strange behavior. Write down potential insights on the side of your Empathy Map. One way to identify the seeds of insights is to capture “tensions”, “contradictions”, and “surprises” as you work.

Working as a 3 person team, conduct an interview with one person interviewing and two capturing. Draw this empathy map on a piece of paper or white board and capture results of the interview on the empathy map.

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Example of the Empathy Map

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USE AN OBSERVATION MAP TO CAPTURE NOTES ABOUT SOMETHING OR SOMEONE THAT INFLUENCES YOUR CHALLENGE. WHAT DID YOU NOTICE THAT SURPRISED YOU? SEE THE EXAMPLE BELOW:

1. Moms use the Library as a play center.

2. Dads use the Library to get private quiet time.

3. 70% of the users of the Library are female.

4. Homeless people come here to get warm.

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1. 60% of the users come to the children’s section.

2. The coffee shop is open 9-3.

3. Paid parking is a hassle.

4. The decor appears dated.

Try not to interpret meaning at this point, just capture things you see.

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INSPIRATION | FORMING INSIGHTS Great insights are something that surprises us and they are authentic, non-obvious and revealing. Often insights answer the statements people tend to value...or people care about...or people need... Review the observations that you have collected with the previous exercise and formulate insights on your Design Thinking worksheet 1B.

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Provide participants with the tools to formulate opportunities and ideate solutions to the challenge.

Participants also learn how to story board and create basic prototypes to communicate the idea.

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OPPORTUNITIES & IDEATE

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Large Post it Notes at Each Table

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Brainstorming Rules Worksheet

Dot Stickers for Voting

LEARNING OBJECTIVES • • •

To learn how to form opportunity ‘How might we’ statements.

To learn the rules of effective brainstorming.

To practice creating storyboards to share ideas.

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Post your 3 things on the Journey Map under your HMW statement Scan other’s work, gather more inspiration

How might we... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTpa-bJiMp4 Virtual prototyping “how college kids snack” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKzWtxgwV90

OPPORTUNITIES The opportunity mode is when you unpack and synthesize your inspiration findings into compelling needs and insights, and scope a specific and meaningful challenge. It is a mode of focus rather than flaring. Two goals of the define mode are to develop a deep understanding of your users and the design space and come up with an actionable opportunity statement. To define an opportunity statement, we start with ‘how might we?’ To refine our statement we ask why and what’s stopping us.

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WHY generate how-might-we questions?

“How might we” (HMW) questions are short questions that launch brainstorms.

HMWs are seeds for your ideation that fall out of your point-of-view statement, design principles, or insights. Create a seed that is broad enough that there are a wide range of solutions but narrow enough that the team is provoked to think of specific, unique ideas. For example, between the (possibly) too narrow “HMW create a cone to eat ice cream without dripping” and the too broad “HMW redesign dessert” might be the properly scoped “HMW redesign ice cream to be more portable.” It should be noted, the proper scope of the seed will vary with the project and how much progress you have made in your project work.

HOW to generate how-might-we questions?

Begin with your Point of View (POV), insights, or problem statement. Create small actionable questions that retain your unique and specific perspective.

Write these questions beginning with the phrase, “How might we…” It is often helpful to brainstorm the HMW questions before the solutions brainstorm. For example, consider the following POV and resulting HMW statements.

Amp up the good: HMW use the kids’ energy to entertain fellow passengers?

Remove the bad: HMW separate the kids from fellow passengers?

Explore the opposite: HMW make the wait the most exciting part of the trip?

Question an assumption: HMW entirely remove the wait time at the airport?

Go after adjectives: HMW we make the rush refreshing instead of stressful?

Identify unexpected resources: HMW leverage free time of fellow passengers to share the load?

Create an analogy from need or context: HMW make the airport like a spa?

Like a playground?

Play against the challenge: HMW make the airport a place that kids want to go?

Change a status quo: HMW make playful, loud kids less annoying?

Break POV into pieces: HMW entertain kids? HMW slow a mom down? HMW mollify delayed passengers?

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Challenge: Redesign the ground experience at the local international airport POV: Hurried mother of three, rushing through the airport only to wait hours at the gate, needs to entertain her playful children because “annoying little brats” only irritate already frustrated fellow passengers.

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Play the bathtub toys video.

Share the rules for effective brainstorming.

Each team brainstorms ideas for their HMW statement.

Select a brainstorm jumpstart and brainstorm more.

IDEATE Generating unexpected ideas via re-framing your challenge.

Use this module to re-frame your challenge, and facilitate a high-impact brainstorm to generate solution concepts

STEP 1 | IDEATING WHAT is ideating?

Ideation is the mode of your design process in which you aim to generate radical design alternatives. Mentally it represents a process of “going wide” in terms of concepts and outcomes – it is a mode of “flaring” rather than “focus.” The goal of ideation is to explore a wide solution space – both a large quantity of ideas and diversity among those ideas. From this vast depository of ideas you can build prototypes to test with users.

WHY ideate?

You ideate in order to transition from identifying problems into exploring solutions for your users. Various forms of ideation are leveraged to: • Step beyond obvious solutions and thus increase the innovation potential of your solution set.

• Harness the collective perspectives and strengths of your teams • Uncover unexpected areas of exploration.

• Create fluency (volume) and flexibility (variety) in your innovation options.

• Get obvious solutions out of your heads, and drive your team beyond them.

Regardless of what ideation method you use, the fundamental principle of ideation is to be cognizant of when you and your team are generating ideas and when you are evaluating ideas – typically keeping these two tasks separate, and only mixing the two intentionally.

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WHY facilitate a brainstorm?

Good facilitation is key to a generative brainstorm. You brainstorm to come up with many, wide-ranging ideas; a good facilitator sets the stage for the team to be successful doing this.

HOW to facilitate a brainstorm?

Energy | As the facilitator it is your task to keep the ideas flowing.

Perhaps the most important aspect of a successful brainstorm is the seed question that you are brainstorming about (see the “How Might We” method card for more information). During the brainstorm keep a pulse on the energy of the group. If the group is slowing down or getting stuck, make an adjustment. Create a variation to the “How-might-we?” (HMW) statement to get the group thinking in another direction (prepare some HMW options ahead of time). Or have a few provocative ideas in your back pocket that you can lob in to re-energize the team.

Space | Be mindful about the space in which you conduct a brainstorm.

Make sure that there is plenty of vertical writing area. This allows the group to generate a large number of potential solutions. Strike a balance between having a footprint that is big enough for everyone, but also is not so large that some people start to feel removed. A good rule of thumb is that all members of the group should be able to reach the board in two steps. Also, make sure each person has access to sticky notes and a marker so they can capture their own thoughts and add them to the board if the scribe cannot keep up with the pace. (See more about scribing on the “Brainstorming” method card).

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Constraints | Add constraints that may spark new ideas. “What if it had to be round?,” “How would superman do it?,” “How would your mom or dad design it?,” “How would you design it with the technology of 100 years ago?” Additionally you can create process constraints. Try putting a time limit on each how-might-we statement; shoot for 50 ideas in 20 minutes.

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STEP 3 | BRAINSTORMING Brainstorm Rules • One Conversation at a Time • Go for Quantity • Headline!

• Build on the Ideas of Others • Encourage wild ideas • Be Visual • Stay on Topic • Defer Judgment – NO Blocking WHY brainstorm?

Brainstorming is a great way to come up with a lot of ideas that you would not be able to generate by just sitting down with a pen and paper. The intention of brainstorming is to leverage the collective thinking of the group, by engaging with each other, listening, and building on other ideas. Conducting a brainstorm also creates a distinct segment of time when you intentionally turn up the generative part of your brain and turn down the evaluative part.

Brainstorming can be used throughout a design process; to come up with design solutions, but also any time you are trying to come up with ideas, such as planning where to do empathy work, or thinking about product and services related to your project – as two examples.

HOW to brainstorm?

Be intentional about setting aside a period of time when your team will be in “brainstorm mode” – when the sole goal is to come up with as many ideas as possible, and when judgment of these ideas will not come into the discussion.

Invest energy into a short period of time, such as 15-30 minutes of high engagement. Get in front of a white-board or around a table, but take an active posture of standing or sitting upright. Get close together.

Write down clearly what you are brainstorming. Using a How-Might-We (HMW) question is a great way to frame a brainstorm (e.g. HMW give each shopper a personal checkout experience?).

There are at least two ways to capture the ideas of a brainstorming session: Scribe: The scribe legibly and visually captures each of the team’s ideas called out, and then writes and places them on the board.

All-in: Each person will write down each of his or her ideas as they come, and verbally share it with the group. It is great to do this with post-it notes, so you can write your idea and then stick it on the board.

Follow and (nicely) enforce the brainstorming rules – they are intended to increase your creative output.

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WHY select with intention?

This story makes me realize that… Your brainstorm should generate many, wide-ranging ideas. Now harvest that brainstorm, so those ideas don’t just sit there on the board. Harvesting is straight forward for some brainstorms (pick a couple of ideas), but when ideating design solutions give some thought to how you select ideas. Carry forward a range of those ideas, so you preserve the breadth of solutions and don’t settle only for the safe choice.

HOW to select?

In the selection process, don’t narrow too fast. Don’t immediately worry about feasibility. Hang on to the ideas about which the group is excited, amused, or intrigued. An idea that is not plausible may still have an aspect within it that is very useful and meaningful.

Carry forward multiple ideas into prototyping. If an idea is so far out there that it seems pointless to test, ask yourselves what about that solution was attractive, and then test that aspect or integrate it into a new solution.

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Different selection techniques can be used, including these three: 1. Post-it or dot voting – each team member gets three votes and marks three ideas that he or she is attracted to. Independent voting allows all team members to have a voice.

2. The four categories method – the method encourages you to hang onto those crazy but meaningful ideas. Elect one or two ideas for each of these four categories: the rational choice, the most likely to delight, the darling, and the long shot.

3. Bingo selection method – like the four categories method, this is designed to help preserve innovation potential. Choose ideas that inspire you to build in different form factors: a physical prototype, a digital prototype, and an experience prototype.

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STEP 5 | STOKE WHY stoke?

Stoke activities help teams loosen up and become mentally and physically active. Use stoke activities when energy is wavering, to wake up in the morning, to launch a meeting, or before a brainstorm.

HOW to stoke?

Do an activity that gets your creativity going and increases your team members’ engagement with each other. A good stoke activity not only increases energy but also requires each person to actively engage, listen, think, and do. For example, when playing Pictionary you must watch a teammate drawing, listen to other teammates guessing the answer (allowing you to build on those ideas), think of what the answer might be, and call out guesses yourself. Keep the activity brief (5-10 minutes) and active so you can jump into your design work after. Many improv games are good stoke activities. Try one of these: Category, category, die! Line folks up. Name a category (breakfast cereals, vegetables, animals, car manufacturers). Point at each person in rapid succession, skipping around the group. The player has to name something in the category. If she does not, everyone yells, “die!!” and that player is out for the round.

Sound ball Stand in a circle and throw an imaginary ball to each other.

Make eye contact with the person you are throwing to, and make a noise as you throw it. The catcher should repeat the noise while catching, and then make a new noise as he throws to the next person. Try to increase the speed the ball travels around the circle. Add a second ball to the circle to increase each person’s awareness.

“Yes, Let’s” Everyone walk around the room randomly, and then one person can make an offer: “Let’s act like we’re all at a pool party,” “Let’s be baby birds,” or “Let’s act like we don’t understand gravity.” Then everyone should shout in unison the response, “yes, let’s” and proceed to take the directive by acting it out. At anytime someone else can yell out the next offer. The answer is always, “Yes, let’s!”

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Creating a storyboard is simple. Create a four frame box on a blank piece of paper and draw the story of how your idea works. Your drawing can be simple including sketches, stick figures, and words.

Try to add various colors and images to your drawing.

Each team should develop a storyboard of their best idea and share a 2-3 minute pitch with the group at large.

AFTER HOURS FIELD WORK Bring additional prototype resources from home.

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Brainstorming Rules Handout

Dot Stickers for Voting

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES • • •

To learn how to use several inspiration tools including empathy maps, personas, and observation/data maps.

To learn great insights are authentic, revealing and non-obvious.

To learn to recognize and build on quality ideas of colleagues.

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WARM UP • •

Sort prototype resources.

Continue research with library resources to expand inspiration.

Duetsche Bank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWO5N3Hh7jI

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Teams test each others prototypes.

REFINING TOGETHER Teams refine their prototypes.

REFUEL DURING THIS SEGMENT

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Craft experiment/test to conduct after hours.

Share storyboard with friend/family, etc. (To share storyboards each person will need a copy).

Submit new 3D versions with Library for printing.

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PROTOTYPE INFO SHEET

What is the prototype mode?

Prototyping is getting ideas and explorations out of your head and into the physical world.

A prototype can be anything that takes a physical form - be it a wall of post-it notes, a roleplaying activity, a space, an object, an interface, or even a storyboard. The resolution of our prototype should commensurate with your progress in your project. In early explorations keep your prototypes rough and rapid to allow yourself to learn quickly and investigate a lot of different possibilities.

Prototypes are most successful when people (the design team, the user, and others) can experience and interact with them. What you learn from those interactions can help drive deeper empathy, as well as shape successful solutions.

Why do we prototype?

Traditionally prototyping is thought of as a way to test functionality. But prototyping is used for many reasons, including these (non-mutually-exclusive) categories.

• Empathy gaining: Prototyping is a tool to deepen your understanding of the design space and your user.

• Exploration: Build to think. Develop multiple solution options.

• Testing: Create prototypes to test and refine solutions with users.

• Inspiration: Inspire others by showing your vision.

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Design Thinking Worksheet

LEARNING OBJECTIVES • •

To learn how to develop experiments to test ideas.

To practice providing feedback to improve ideas.

WARM UP •

Sort additional prototype resources from home.

Trailer to the Design Thinking Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uilcaXYnluU

Participants refine prototypes and define experiments in this module.

If time permits, plan a demonstration and open house for parents and guests to hear the presentations of each prototype.

ITERATING Designers rely on communication and feedback during design work to iterate solutions. You request feedback from users about solution concepts and feedback from colleagues and design frameworks to iterate improvements. Feedback is best given with ‘I - statements.’

Specifically “I like, I wish, What if ?”

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Experiments provide the opportunity to refine solutions and make them better. The experiment mode is another iterative step in which we place our observations and insights in the context of the users life. Design Thinkers prototype as if you know you are right, but test as if you are wrong.

Why Test?

• To refine our prototypes and solutions. Testing informs the next iteration of prototypes.

Sometimes this means going back to the drawing board.

• To learn more about our user. Testing is another opportunity to build empathy through observation and engagement - it often yields unexpected insights.

• To test and refine our point of view. Sometimes testing reveals that not only did we not get the solution right, but also that we failed to frame the problem correctly.

Great experiments are;

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Conducted with a safe audience, at a minimal cost (e.g. guideline: under $100).

Easy to build, easy to run (e.g. guideline: under 1 hour).

On target to answer a question that will grow the idea.

Each team creates a prototype and an experiment for their best idea. It’s time to build a prototype that explains your idea and design an experiment to evolve your idea.

Use your Design Thinking worksheet to guide you through the process.

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STEP 2 | POST ON THE BRIGHT SPARK WEBSITE Photographs and post submitted to Bright Spark website.

STEP 3 | FINALIZING THE JOURNEY MAP Teams work to complete drawings and posts to the journey map.

STEP 4 | GROWTH GAGE SURVEY Participants should complete the Post Workshop Growth Gage survey.

STEP 5 | THE WRAP • • •

Certificates presented .

Prototypes & 3D images sent home .

Photos of session posted on Instagram .

The survey can be accessed via bright-spark.org under the INFO and then RESOURCES tab.

Make sure participants understand to complete only the POST SESSION survey at this point.

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