🎨 Design Thinking Workshop
Complete 5-phase workshop facilitation kit for human-centered innovation
👥 Empathize
Understand users and their needs through observation and engagement
Duration: 1-2 days🛠️ Activities
- •User interviews and observations
- •Empathy mapping
- •Journey mapping
- •Stakeholder interviews
- •Contextual inquiry
- •User personas development
📦 Deliverables
- •User personas
- •Empathy maps
- •User journey maps
- •Interview transcripts
- •Observation notes
💡 Facilitation Tips
- •Listen more than you speak
- •Observe behavior, not just ask questions
- •Challenge your assumptions
- •Document everything
- •Look for emotional triggers
🔄 Design Thinking Process
👥
Empathize
→
🎯
Define
→
💡
Ideate
→
🔨
Prototype
→
🧪
Test
📋 Workshop Planning Guide
📅 Before the Workshop
- ✅ Define workshop objectives
- ✅ Recruit diverse participants
- ✅ Prepare materials and tools
- ✅ Set up physical/digital space
- ✅ Create participant briefings
- ✅ Plan for different learning styles
🎭 During Facilitation
- ✅ Set clear ground rules
- ✅ Keep energy high and positive
- ✅ Encourage all voices
- ✅ Time-box activities strictly
- ✅ Capture all ideas visually
- ✅ Build on each phase\'s output
🔄 After the Workshop
- ✅ Synthesize all outputs
- ✅ Share results with participants
- ✅ Plan next steps and iterations
- ✅ Document learnings
- ✅ Follow up on commitments
- ✅ Schedule follow-up sessions
Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer's toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success.
— Tim Brown, IDEO CEO & Design Thinking Pioneer
The real value of design thinking is not in the process itself, but in building creative confidence. When teams learn they can solve any problem through this approach, transformation happens.
— David Kelley, Stanford d.school Founder