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Expert Interview
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Group Interview
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Frame Your Design Challenge
Properly framing your design challenge is critical to your success. Here’s how to do it just right.
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Recruiting Tools
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Analogous Inspiration
To get a fresh perspective on your research, shift your focus to a new context.
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Create a Project Plan
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Conversation Starters
Conversation Starters put a bunch of ideas in front of users to spark their reactions.
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Peers Observing Peers
Get a glimpse into the community you’re designing for by seeing how they document their own lives.
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Secondary Research
Getting smart around your challenge is crucial to success in the field.
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Build a Team
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Extremes and Mainstreams
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The Five Whys
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Define Your Audience
Consider the broad spectrum of people who will be touched by your design solution.
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Card Sort
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Photojournal
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Create a Concept
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Design Principles
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Rapid Prototyping
Build your prototypes quickly, share them immediately, keep learning.
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Find Themes
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Brainstorm Rules
At IDEO.org we have seven little rules that unlock the creative power of a brainstorming session.
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Share Inspiring Stories
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Business Model Canvas
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Role Play
A quick and tangible way to test an idea or experience is to get into character and act it out.
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Download Your Learnings
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Explore Your Hunch
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Co-Creation Session
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Journey Map
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Storyboard
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Determine What to Prototype
There are so many ways to prototype an idea. Here’s how to isolate what to test.
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Top Five
This easy synthesis tool can help you prioritize, communicate, and strategize with your team.
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Integrate Feedback and Iterate
Let the feedback of the people you’re designing for guide the next iteration of your solution.
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Create Insight Statements
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Get Feedback
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Create Frameworks
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Keep Getting Feedback
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Define Success
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Live Prototyping
A Live Prototype is a chance to run your solution for a couple weeks out in the real world.
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Keep Iterating
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Build Partnerships
You may well need some help getting your concept to market. Build the Partnerships you’ll need now.
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Measure and Evaluate
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Staff Your Project
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Sustainable Revenue
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Create a Pitch
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Ways to Grow Framework
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Funding Strategy
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Capabilities Quicksheet
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How do I assess if my solution is working?
How do I make a prototype?
How do I get started?
How do I keep people at the center of my research?
How do I conduct an interview?
How do I make sense of what I’ve heard?
How do I turn my learnings into an opportunity for design?
How do I make my concept real?
How do I know if my idea is working?
How do I plan for what’s next?
What tools can I use to understand people?
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and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
and needs is the best foundation for any design solution.–>
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