Running a design thinking workshop is one of the best ways to spark creativity and nurture a user-centric mindset within your design team. As a designer, you will encounter situations where you need to run design thinking workshops either with your team, your stakeholders, or other departments ...
Workshops are not about you or your work on the project to date. If you’re going into the workshop worried about whether the client will like what you are going to present, you’re already in trouble. Workshops are about a broader group engaging with the project in a deeply meaningful...
Now that you know how to run a design thinking workshop, here are a few best practice tips to keep in mind. 1. Encourage creativity The whole point of a design thinking workshop is to encourage creativity. So, make sure you create an environment that’s conducive to out-of-the-box th...
Around a year ago, while working at a digital agency, I was given the objective of streamlining our UX design process. Twelve months later, this article shares my thoughts and experiences onhow lean thinking helped to instill efficiencieswithin our UX design process. MeetSmashing Worksh...
This video walks you through the experience of authoring and running a workflow to build your application, restore environment to a clean snapshot, deploy the build on your environment, take a post deployment snapshot, and run build verification tests. Version: Visual Studio 2010....
UX workshops can drive projects forward and build consensus, but are only a valuable use of time when the agenda is defined from the goals you want to achieve. Here's a 3-step process for designing a useful workshop agenda in UX projects.
In our ideation workshop, we asked people to brainstorm ideas on their own and then refine them in a group process. What you need is clear criteria for ranking the ideas you identify. Here's a template for that. Selection criteria template Benefits of design thinking Design thinking ...
This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from people in the TED community; browse throughall the posts here. Design thinking is something that we’ve been working on at the Stanford Design School and in the Schoo...
Phase 2: Workshop You’re prepared to participate in a discovery workshop alongside your chosenapp development partneronce you’ve gathered as much data as possible about the user’s needs and startup potential. UX/UI Design “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is...
“It’s been so inspiring to see what the Foster America team has been able to achieve,” says Dan. For example, a fellow is helping Washington state design innovative solutions to reduce the pipeline of young adults who go from foster care to homelessness. She’s d...