- Time: 4 hours+
- Participants: 3-8+
- Difficulty: Medium
- Facilitators: 1
Objectives
- Introduce beginners to design thinking by making it a fun and digestible process.
- Learn and understand the five stages of the design thinking process by relating each stage to an everyday project.
- By tackling a small task together, we will familiarize ourselves with design thinking, and use these stages to tackle bigger projects in future.
When should this session be delivered?
This workshop is designed as an introduction to design thinking, providing the participants with steps to take to develop a different mindset and approach to problem solving. The workshop can instill new ways of thinking in teams, and freshen up their approach, working as a starting point before tackling larger projects using similar techniques.
Learning to reframe problems and looking at the scale of the challenge before empathizing with users can help teams deliver well needed solutions. We focus on how to create personas and build a rapid prototype to test before settling on a specific solution.
This workshop is effective in both live and remote formats, and can work as a hybrid lesson as well. We can work with online whiteboard tools to work throughout our learning process, whilst facilitating discussions and presentations alongside, to deliver a successful workshop in a virtual setting.
Who can facilitate it?
Most facilitators could guide this course using the instructions and exercises provided. It would be helpful to have knowledge and experience in design thinking, in order to reference any specific cases and personal examples of the design thinking journey which could ensure the success of the workshop’s objectives being met.
Materials
We have created an easy-to-use workshop template for facilitators and have designed a Design Thinking For Beginners Workbook & Presentation for you to guide the participants through the process.
Check out the template details including step-by-step plan with instructions, timings, printable schedule and more
About the author
Carrin Robertson
Carrin Robertson is a Content Marketer at SessionLab and a design thinking facilitator who has worked with community projects to help them solve complex problems, and to further utilize these skills and mindset.
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