Design Tools: D.School Tools

Ref: MethodCards v3-slim.pdf,

Quick reference terms to Google.

Empathy:

  • What? How? Why?
  • User Camera Study
  • Interviews
  • Extreme Users
  • Analogous Empathy
  • Why-How Laddering

Define:

  • Story Share-and-Capture
  • Saturate and Group
  • Empathy Map
  • Journey Map
  • Composite Character Profile
  • Power of Ten
  • 2x2 Matrix
  • POV madlib
  • POV analogy
  • POV Want Ad
  • Critical Reading Checklist

Ideate:

  • How Might We…? Questions
  • Stoke
  • Brainstorming
  • Bodystorming

Prototype:

  • Identify a Variable you want to Test
  • Prototype for Empathy
  • Prototype for Test
  • Prototype to Decide
  • User Driven Prototyping
  • Wizard of Oz Prototyping

Test:

  • Testing with Users
  • Feedback Capture Grid
  • Storytelling
  • Video Shooting — Storytelling

Team Feedback:

  • I Like, I Wish, What If

A Journey to Design Thinking

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A Journey to Design Thinking

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