Design Thinking Workshops
Spreading Design Thinking into the organization helps colleagues to think out of the box and be collaborative.
“It was perfect. Perfect! Everything, down to the last, minute details.”
“I really liked the actual teamwork, after we identified a problem that we want to solve. It was amazing to gather all the different ideas and brainstorm together.”
“This is a good entertainment, and also good learning at the same time. I already have a topic in mind that I’d like to use this method for.”
“I believe the most valuable part of the workshop was transforming our concept into something tangible. This is a great challenge that depends on the team size, diversity of people and team dynamics.”
“The positivity and the teacher style energetic attitude was setting the initial nice space, so with the facilitation I was very satisfied! :)”
Being a workshop facilitator
I was a teacher before, so I wanted to leverage those soft skills and put it into workshop facilitation.
First, I did ideation workshops or design sprints with my development team or my design team. After I got the hang of it and I received nice feedbacks, I started locally to do Design Thinking Workshops where everyone in the organization could join regardless of profession. So, I had full-house, with 10+ participants, where I lead them through the Design Thinking method.
We went through each stage with a problem that either I brought or the participants. Sometimes, the solution was a digital one, like the smart refrigerator with an AI assistant (SMEG - picture above) or a physical solution we built from boxes like the Cashless Cloakroom. Now, I start to revamp all teams where developers and designers work together with the help of this method.
Working together is sometimes hard because we come from different background but if we set the environment as a playful, non-judgemental space, people will thrive on new ideas and they aren’t afraid of failing. As we all know the saying “fail fast, fail often” where we learn from testing and iterating until our users’ real problem is solved.
I can help your cross-functional teams to be more collaborative, which is key to align on goals, design directions and of course, where your product should move forward.