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From Shipping Isn’t Everything by Gabriel Valdivia
I learned that, instead of presenting a solution as your idea, it’s best to try framing it as a solution for a problem the team has expressed in the past, built by combining pieces of different solutions from everyone on the team. In the case of a disagreement in your next discussion around a design solution, focus on creating harmony in the room, no matter how right you may think you are.
From How To Make Design Thinking Deliver on Its Promise of Creating Better Product by Richard Banfield
…an only be effective if you take the outputs and use those to produce outcomes. This is why we like Design Sprints so much. They don’t just deliver artifacts (outputs), they also deliver answers (outcomes).