Design Mindsets
Ref: IDEO and D.School
Focus on Human Values: Empathy for the people you are designing for and feedback form these users is fundamental to good design.
Show Don’t Tell: Communicate your vision in an impact-full and meaningful way by creating experiences, using illustrative visuals, and telling good stories.
Craft Clarity: Produce a coherent vision out of messy problems. Frame it in a way to inspire others and to fuel ideation.
Be Mindful of Process: Know where you are in the design process, what methods to use in that stage, and what your goals are.
Embrace Experimentation: Prototyping is not simply a way to validate your idea, it is an integral part of your innovation process. we built to think and learn.
Bias Towards Action: Design thinking is a misnomer, it is more about doing than thinking. Bias toward doing and making over thinking and meeting.
Radical Collaboration: Bring together innovators with varied background and viewpoints. Enable breakthrough insights and solutions to emerge from the diversity.
Don’t judge: Just observe and engage users without the influence of value judgments upon their actions, circumstances, decisions, or “issues”.
Question everything: Question even (and especially) the things you think you already understand. Ask questions to learn about how the user perceives the world. Think about how a 4-year-old asks “Why?” about everything. Follow up an answer to one “why” with a second “why.”
Be truly curious: Strive to assume a posture of wonder and curiosity, especially in circumstances that seem either familiar or uncomfortable.
Find patterns: Look for interesting threads and themes that emerge across interactions with users.
Listen : Lose your agenda and let the scene soak into your psyche. Absorb what users say to you, and how they say it, without thinking about the next thing you’re going to say.
