Design Thinking Workshop

• 4-8 people
• 1 day
• Decision makers & practitioners
• Training in Design Thinking

Design Thinking is a structured sequence of six phases: understand, observe, define the point of view, gather ideas, build a prototype, test. The phases do not run through from front to back once, they run in loops. That is exactly where the method asks the most and gives the most.

The day alternates between short inputs and work on the topic. Three experiences are at the centre: that an iterative approach reaches a result faster than one long first draft, that user-centred thinking carries the search for ideas, and that a team drawn from several disciplines finds more than a single department.

A result on the topic you brought, made in a day and correspondingly rough. Plus materials and instructions your team can use to run its own attempts without me in the room.

Design Thinking appears twice on this site. Under approach you find the order in which I work myself when you commission a project. Here it is a day on which your team practises that way of working. One is a procedure, the other is an appointment.

Four to eight people, drawn from several disciplines: product development, management, marketing and sales, plus the people who will later build the result. Start-ups, agencies and design studios belong here as much as teams from public administration and companies.

Projects where it is already settled what the result should be. The open sequence is then a detour, and everyone involved notices it before lunch.

And for expectations of a finished product. A day brings practice and a first draft. If you want the way of working accompanied across a whole project, the Design Thinking package is the right one.