Design Thinking for Children

Design Thinking for Children

Edwin DandoAssurity

@edwindando

GMLong service AgileScrum.org trainerEvidence Based Management consultant

About EdwinSLIDE | 4

Assurity Consulting Limited • Commercial in Confidence • Company Presentation Nov 2015


The 4th Industrial Revolution

Age of Manufacturing

Age of Distribution

Age of Information

Digital Age (Age of the Customer)

And what about these guys?Uber -> worlds largest taxi company -> owns no vehiclesAirbnb -> worlds largest accommodation provider -> no real estateFacebook -> worlds largest media owner -> creates no contentAlibaba -> worlds most valuable retailer -> no inventory

DisruptionGlobally, 72 percent of CEOs believe that the next 3 years will be more critical for their industry than the last 50. CEOs believe it’s now or never.

Source: KPMG 2016 Global CEO Outlook

Our world is rapidly decentralising

• Easier• Robust• Control based• Fragile• Vulnerable - shocks, attacks & failures

• Resilient• Participative• Diverse• Require connectivity• Difficult to standardise• Loss of economise of scale

• Highly responsive• Naturally resilient and adaptive• Intelligent

• Cannot be controlled

Examples• Nature• The Internet• Etherum & Bitcoin • Terror cells • Crowd economics• Future business?

•In 5 years, 35% of skills considered important in today will have changed.

•Creativity will be one of the top three skills workers will need.

•Emotional intelligence will become the top skills needed by all

*World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs study

Social skills

Poorly paid as large supply of workers

Future roles in demand

AUTOMATED

Engineers


From management of work to • Team work• Emotional Intelligence, • Facilitation


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“they need to the skills necessary for the future - collaboration, creativity, empathy and the ability to solve complex problems”

What do we need to teach?

Ed: Agile? Maybe? On what work?Gary: Hmmm, good point. What about something practical we could work on with them?Ed: What problems do you face?Gary: the sandpit! It’s a problem...

Learn about the audience for whom you are designing by observation and interview

Who is my user?

What matters to them?

• Data collection technique> 2 interviewing, 2 writing, 1 recording, 1 drawing

•Key needs

> fun> learning & development> tidy & sand not wasted> water conservation.

Group 1 - Principal

• Key concerns > Fairness> Behaviour> Safety

Group 2 - Staff

Group 3 - Teachers

Group 4 - Kids

Group 5 - Parents

• Epic fail! Pivot and try again.

• A vital way for them to learn and grow

• We don’t have a sandpit at home. Using it in the weekend is great.

• Sandy clothes block the washing machine.

• My son copies his digger driver uncles

• Alternative to wet fields in winter

Collate all the information together - visual systemsThemesPresentations – either poster or electronicDiscussions Identify key learningsCreate a Learning Wall for ongoing reference

Group basedIndividualOver time…

First round – epic fail! Too ambitiousGo back to IdeateRefineTry again

• Testing prototype with users• Does this solve their real problem? • Now they see it, do they see any issues (IKIWISI)• What could be better?

What’s happening this week?

• Develop a plan> materials required> labour & skills required> order of work> costs

• Kids to submit plan to Board for approval• Build it!

Then what?

• Design Thinking is very natural for kids• Collaboration is natural for kids• Solutions come too quickly for all of us• The parents LOVE it

>“what is happening with the sandpit project?”> “my child raves about this!”

Key learnings

• Learning by doing is vital• Adults often don’t feel comfortable with simple prototypes• Kids minds are phenomenal

>“We could use this to solve problems in our school…”>“We could use this to solve problems in our community…”> “We could use this to solve problems in our country…”

Key learnings

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Design Thinking for Children