Design Thinking for Educators Discovery through Prototyping

Editor's Notes

• #7: IDEO Student Deskchairs are hooks. Space under desk for a backpackIt has a bucket seat that swivelsWheels!Desktops integrate like a conference table
• #11: You need to understand the people for whom you are designing. You must build empathy for who they are and what is important to them. Watch how they interact with their environment and look for clues that reveal how they feel. The best solutions come out of the best insights into human behavior.Observe: View users and their behavior in the context of their lives.Engage: Interact with and interview users through both scheduled and short encounters.Immerse: Experience what your user experiences.
• #12: With our experience may come assumptions, misconceptions and stereotypes. This restricts empathy. Rules: Don’t Judge. Question everything. Be truly curious. Find patterns. Listen. Be intentional with your observations. Use all of your senses to observe. What are you smelling, feeling, seeing through the experience.
• #13: Ask why. Never say “usually.” Encourage stories. Pay attention to non-verbal cues. Don’t be afraid of silence. Ask questions neutrally. Be prepared to capture.
• #14: Capture this information in small, self selected groups of 5-8.
• #15: Capture this information in small, self selected groups of 5-8.
• #16: Interview a colleague with the questions you have selected. 5 minutes. Everyone else in the group take notes.
• #17: Gain a fresh perspective.
• #18: Gain a fresh perspective. SportsOutside activitiesThink Dan Pink’s Drive: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose Are we EMPOWERING students?
• #19: Unpack and synthesize empathy findings and look for insights, and scope a specific challenge to focus on. Develop a deep understanding of the user and come up with an actionable statement. This stage explicitly states the problem that is being addressed through the design efforts. How might we….
• #20: In self selected groups of 5-8, each team member will come up and talk about what they heard and saw in the field. Compare notes, and share stories. Listen, and jot down one word you heard the team member say.
• #21: Group post its with words into generalized ideas or concepts. Work in groups 5-8.
• #23: Say: What were some of the quotes the user said?Do: What actions and behaviors did you notice? (Did their voice change? Did they wring their hands?)Think: What might your user be thinking? Feel: What emotions might your subject be feeling?Identify the needs of the user based on the traits you noticed. Identify insights.
• #25: This is a COMPOSITE profile of our user base. It’s a semi-fictional character who embodies the human observations the team has made in the field. Includes “typical” characteristics or trends seen across all interviews.
• #27: You need to understand the people for whom you are designing. You must build empathy for who they are and what is important to them. Watch how they interact with their environment and look for clues that reveal how they feel. The best solutions come out of the best insights into human behavior.Observe: View users and their behavior in the context of their lives.Engage: Interact with and interview users through both scheduled and short encounters.Immerse: Experience what your user experiences.
• #28: This is a COMPOSITE profile of our user base. It’s a semi-fictional character who embodies the human observations the team has made in the field. Includes “typical” characteristics or trends seen across all interviews.
• #29: This is a COMPOSITE profile of our user base. It’s a semi-fictional character who embodies the human observations the team has made in the field. Includes “typical” characteristics or trends seen across all interviews.
• #31: This is a COMPOSITE profile of our user base. It’s a semi-fictional character who embodies the human observations the team has made in the field. Includes “typical” characteristics or trends seen across all interviews.
• #32: This is a COMPOSITE profile of our user base. It’s a semi-fictional character who embodies the human observations the team has made in the field. Includes “typical” characteristics or trends seen across all interviews.
• #33: You need to understand the people for whom you are designing. You must build empathy for who they are and what is important to them. Watch how they interact with their environment and look for clues that reveal how they feel. The best solutions come out of the best insights into human behavior.Observe: View users and their behavior in the context of their lives.Engage: Interact with and interview users through both scheduled and short encounters.Immerse: Experience what your user experiences.
• #34: This is a COMPOSITE profile of our user base. It’s a semi-fictional character who embodies the human observations the team has made in the field. Includes “typical” characteristics or trends seen across all interviews.