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Making Change With
Design Thinking
Driving Change Through Creative and Innovative Experiences
David Yarde
SEVENALITY
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Welcome.
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Let’s Get
Acquainted!
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‘The sun shineth; the land is
green; and the people are
strong and creative’.
Learn more about David here!

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Before We
Get Started
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Learn to say
no to ego.
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We aren’t as rational
as we think we are…
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Things We’ll Need
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An Open Mind
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A Spirit Of Curiosity
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Empathy Not Sympathy
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What Are Your
Biggest Challenges?
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What Are Your
Consumers Biggest
Challenges?
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The Collective
Experience
ACTIVITY
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So Why Is It Hard To
Get Noticed?
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Intro To Design
Thinking
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In short, design thinking is an action-
oriented approach to generating creative
solutions to complex problems.
INTRO TO DESIGN THINKING
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DESIGN
THINKING
INDUSTRIAL
DESIGN DRIVEN
INNOVATION
DRIVEN
COMPUTATIONAL
DESIGN
INNOVATION AT
SCALE DRIVEN
CLASSICAL
DESIGN
INTRO TO DESIGN THINKING
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Design Thinking
Principles
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• Empathy
• Exploration
• Materialize
• Iterate & Re-iterate
DESIGN THINKING PRINCIPLES
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Empathy

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Engage with and observe the
people you aim to connect
with and serve.
DESIGN THINKING PRINCIPLES: EMPATHY
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Understand their needs, find what is
important to them before you even talk
about the end product or solution
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Empathize with
your users.
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Understand their goals, pain points, and
motivations to create products that
meet their needs and empower them.
DESIGN THINKING PRINCIPLES: EMPATHY
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PAINS
Fears, frustrations, past experiences
GAINS
Benefits, wants, and needs
THINK AND FEEL?
What do they
RESPONSIBILITIES?
What are their
INFLUENCES?
What are their
SAY AND DO?
What do they
Loveable Empathy Map
First time around, give yourself
a little kick of empathy.
Second time around, apply that
empathy to your community.
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Loveable Empathy Map
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_______ needs a way to
_______ so that _______
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The user needs a way to do
something that addresses their
need(s) so that they can benefit
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Exploration

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The goal is quantity and
diversity of ideas, not quality.
DESIGN THINKING PRINCIPLES: EXPLORATION
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Exploring options and generating a wide
variety of ideas is essential to arriving at
innovative solutions.
DESIGN THINKING PRINCIPLES: EXPLORATION
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30 Circles 30 Seconds
How many ideas can you
generate using just these 30
circles?
Ready? Set? Go!
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Materialize

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Investing too much in a prototype means
that it is already too polished, and usually
its creators too emotionally attached, to
incorporate significant feedback.
DESIGN THINKING PRINCIPLES: MATERIALIZE
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The goal of this phase is to understand
what components of your ideas work,
and which do not.
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In this phase you begin to weigh the
impact vs. feasibility of your ideas
through feedback on your prototypes.
DESIGN THINKING PRINCIPLES: MATERIALIZE
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Iterate & Re-iterate

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The focus here is to create a model that
enables the ability to deliver a solution in
an economically viable and scalable
fashion.
DESIGN THINKING PRINCIPLES: ITERATE & RE-ITERATE
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Put your prototype in front of real
customers and verify that it achieves
your goals.
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Has the users’ perspective during
onboarding improved? Has it stayed the
same? Observe what changes.
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Reflection

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Where are you/
we going?
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REFLECTION

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How are you/we
getting there?
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REFLECTION

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Applying Design
Thinking

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The Power of
Storytelling
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APPLYING DESIGN THINKING

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What is the story
you’re telling yourself?
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How are you delivering
your stories?
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Now Go Out and
Make Change!
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APPLYING DESIGN THINKING

49.
Questions? Struggles?
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Shoot me a message or connect with
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BONUS RESOURCES
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