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In listening to a recent UX design podcast episode by our friends at the <\/span>Product Breakfast Club<\/b><\/a><\/span>, the guys had a special guest host who was a former entrepreneur, product designer and now consultant specializing in design sprints.<\/span><\/p>\n As with most PBC episodes, the conversation was interesting with the two UX professionals sharing an unscripted and insightful conversation on past histories and experiences. Among the various topics covered, the guest host spoke about adopting design sprint process as a core aspect of his career to date. <\/span><\/p>\n As he dug into his history related to the topic and practice, the guest host admitted to initially struggling with the concept of design thinking. Despite reading countless articles and books along with being accomplished product designer, he spoke about not fully-grasping design thinking. The \u201cA-Ha! moment\u201d only came when he had the opportunity to participate in an actual live design sprint with a client.<\/span><\/p>\n Given the PBC guest\u2019s background and overall creative acumen, it occured to me that if a designer of his stature initially struggled with the concept, it\u2019s no wonder clients struggle with it even today. My immediate follow up thought was that just like participating in a design sprint was the moment when it all came together for this designer, being immersed in the process is the best way for even non-designers to learn by doing.<\/span><\/p>\n Similar to the concept of riding a bike you can get the idea of sitting on the seat and placing your feet on the pedals to move forward but you don\u2019t truly get it until you learn how to balance while moving at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n From that sequence, I had two takeaways:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/li>\n For people adopting an exercise workout regimen, it\u2019s been well-documented that the best workout plan for people are the ones that they\u2019ll actually do on their own. For design thinking to take hold in a parallel fashion, it\u2019s important to understand your audience and what will work best for them.<\/span><\/p>\n While our Motivate team constantly tries to spread the word through deed and action with client partners and youth organizations, it is important for us to remember that the concepts contained within design thinking practices isn\u2019t necessarily as common sense as we would like to think.<\/span><\/p>\n With the youth programs and non-profit organizations that we partner with, making design thinking a fun, relatable experience that kids and young adults can apply to their daily lives is our goal. In the years that we\u2019ve participated with organizations like <\/span>Girls in Tech<\/b><\/a><\/span> and <\/span>ESchool for Girls<\/b><\/a><\/span> along with our own hosted training series called <\/span>YouthX<\/b>, we\u2019ve learned that learning through doing and having fun is the best way to build a connection and make the design thinking concept sticky.<\/span><\/p>\n Fostering creativity, open-ended thinking, customer and solution-focused problem solving is facilitated by making the topic relatable while doing as little \u201ctalking at\u201d our young participants as possible so that they can experience, invent, and problem solve for themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n One of the biggest aspects of ensuring design thinking concepts take hold in participants of any age is making the activities for each phase of the journey easy to understand and repeat on their own both in a session and hopefully long afterwards. The following are some of our favorite design thinking activities that we use both internally and with participants to help encourage a fun, do-it-yourself approach:<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ module_class=”right-sidebar modoc” background_color=”#67b9ac” custom_padding__hover=”|||” custom_padding=”|||”][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” height=”25px” _builder_version=”3.19.12″ global_module=”23073″ saved_tabs=”all” text_orientation=”left” form_field_focus_text_color=”#ffffff”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.12″ header_font=”Montserrat|700|||||||” header_text_align=”center” header_font_size=”34px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_3_font=”Montserrat|600|||||||” header_3_text_align=”center” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”||0px|” custom_padding=”25px|30px||30px” global_module=”23074″ saved_tabs=”all”]<\/p>\n
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