Since 2016, I have collaborated and worked with several organizations on strategic projects as a designer and workshop facilitator. I use ideation and creativity methods central to design thinking to help them achieve their goals.
The design of the workshop was individual to each project, company and goal. The needs and context was collected before each workshop, after which the framework of the workshop, design challenge and methods were selected. Below are a few of the recent workshops.
Interdisciplinary Internal Design Thinking Workshop
Employees of a Software Company
Workshop Design + Primary Workshop Facilitator
Half Day
This workshop was a part of a design awareness initiative at a new location of the company.
Participants: The design of the workshop included pushing for inviting colleagues from various teams from all over the company, something which hasn't been the norm in the history of this project. Since it was one of the first experimental design sessions, we had to work with the given time constraint of half a day.
Design Challenge: The design challenge was framed after synthesizing preliminary research, and with the aim of relating the workshop to an existing project at the company.
Process:
The participants were introduced to design thinking with an introductory challenge after which they undertook a sprint of the entire process of Design Thinking, namely, user research, synthesis, ideation, prototyping and testing.
The workshop recieved exceptionally positive feedback from the participants in the following days, with more colleagues requesting for a similar workshop for their projects.
Future of Work: Design Thinking for Social Impact
Core Management team of a Software Company
Workshop Design + Primary Workshop Co-Facilitator
Half Day
This workshop was a collaboration between Project Together, Sage Experience Design and Sage Foundation with the goal of identifying future business opportunities which had the potential to solve social challenges, with the help of a design thinking process.
Design Challenge: The challenge was designed to explore experiential futuring for the organization, more specifically on exploring the jobs of tomorrow and the role of education and reskilling.
Process:
The participants were introduced to design thinking with an introductory challenge after which they were introduced to the design thinking thought process and methods. They were guided through a sprint of the entire process of DT: user research, synthesis, ideation, prototyping and testing.
Project Specific Interdisciplinary Ideation Workshop
Employees of a Software Company
Workshop Design + Primary Workshop Facilitator
Half Day
This workshop was a part of a year long live project, over several countries and project teams.
Design Research and Synthesis: A multi-country qualitative and quantitative research phase helped collect user insights, pain points and feedback. The experience design team synthesized the findings and prepared ideation workshops in 3-4 countries, including one in Germany.
Workshop Process: The participants were introduced to and guided through the problem space, and design thinking + brainstorming techniques including problem framing, How Might We, moonshot thinking, crazy 8's, Swap-Present-Improve and the democratic non-hierarchical sharing + voting of ideas.
The results from the workshop were taken further by the design team and incorporated in to the project. The workshop helped the design team to involve stakeholders in the process and create an inclusive environment.
Future of Mobility
International Automobile Company
Workshop Design + Workshop Facilitation Assistant
2 Days
The workshop explored The Future of Mobility in view of new and upcoming technologies.
Process: The participants were led through an entire design thinking process over the span of two days. This included coming up with a prelimary problem statement, conductive outdoor user research, synthesizing key findings, creating user personas based on research, customer journey mapping to identify opportunities, opportunity space mapping, brainstorming methods, prototyping methods, and testing.
