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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

How can I learn design thinking? How can design thinking help with product development? Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves empathy for the user, creative ideation, and experimentation to create innovative solutions. This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem.

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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

is the guiding question, and we develop solutions based upon our understanding of the answer. becomes the salient question, and discovering the likely answers determines the responses that will be developed. This includes systems architecture, as well as specific hardware and software systems. Core Elements of Waterfall.

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As our lives become more automated, these are the skills you’ll need

Faisal Hoque

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. Most likely, the latter came out of school with more polished communication, teamwork, decision-making, problem-solving, and creative abilities. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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As our lives become more automated, these are the skills you’ll need

Faisal Hoque

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. Most likely, the latter came out of school with more polished communication, teamwork, decision-making, problem-solving, and creative abilities. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

Boxes and Arrows

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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What does it mean to cultivate a Fail Fast Culture?

ImagineNation

It was an interesting discovery conversation, causing me to explore what needs to be in place to create permission, vulnerability, safety, courage and trust for the deep learning’s that mistakes and failure provide in advancing creativity, invention and innovation? How can failure be perceived as feedback and learning?

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The Artist and The Innovator

Leanstack

He has no product revenue and relies on part-time freelancing work to fund his product development. On the other hand, Larry has a growing customer base, revenue, and team. Even though his startup had a few bad product starts, they eventually managed to get acquired. Steve felt proud to have been part of the core team.