Design Thinking?

Would it be totally out of line to try and put together a workshop or something on design thinking? I would be willing to pay to learn from an IDEO or Sanford d.school alumni.

Would anyone else be interested or know any resources that might help?

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Permalink Reply by Maren Connary on April 26, 2009 at 11:04pm: Hi Chris,

I'm with you on this one but in what context do you want the design thinking to be presented? Industrial design, information design, UX, IX?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris on April 27, 2009 at 9:17am: I am looking for something exactly like the following video:

http://www.hpi-potsdam.com/index.php/2008/07/28/hpi-report-to-a-des...

I think the context is less important, as the real benefit is learning how to solve a problem as a group. Shouldn't matter if the problem is related to industrial design, or ix, etc. In fact the problem might be solvable by more than one context. The main point, I am most interested in, is the actual process the IDEO and the d.schools are teaching as their design thinking process--especially the group dynamics.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mohammed Mudassir Azeemi on April 30, 2009 at 10:10am: Hello Chris,

Count me in, I am really interested in this Workshop.

By the way link you provided is not working, would you please post it again?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris on April 30, 2009 at 12:20pm: Try:

http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,item,1707947548.aspx

It is an itunes podcast.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Renee Anderson on May 5, 2009 at 3:51pm: I'm in, and isn't part of the point of "design thinking" is that it involves processes to solve problems regardless of the supporting mechanisms? I mean, IDEO got invited by the gov't of Iceland to help them solve their economic meltdown precisely because of their expertise in unique and objective problem solving.

Anyway, great idea, I'm in.

Renee, Hot Studio, SF; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris on May 5, 2009 at 5:33pm: I took a tour of Stanford's d.school and will probably reach out to one of the professors or fellows.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by daniel schwartz on August 11, 2009 at 5:14pm: I would be interested. please keep me in the loop; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dave Eresian on August 12, 2009 at 10:41am: Hi Chris,

Any news on the possibility of a workshop at the d.school or IDEO? Please keep us posted.

Thanks,

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Permalink Reply by gpetroff on October 19, 2009 at 1:28pm: I'm in....Happy to even put something together. Our team at SAP is quite close to Ideo, Stanford d school and HPI. All three are financed by SAP's founder Hasso Platner.

There are 2 kinds of workshops that could work. 1 an overview of the process or 2, a deep dive into a part of the process. There are lots of differnent names for the general steps in the process. The one that is hardest to learn in my estimation is design synthesis where you look for "actionable" insights from research.

I would be currious if we could get several POV's from differnent groups to talk about how they use Design Thinking in their work.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris on October 29, 2009 at 3:39pm: Is there anything I can do to help facilitate this?

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Permalink Reply by Chris on October 19, 2009 at 1:47pm: This would be great if you are willing to help out. I talked to a couple of people at d.school and they were all too busy. I also agree the synthesis part is, in fact, the most challenging. Maybe we could pick an actual problem and work on it in an accelerated fashion?

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