Workshop Participants

Kathy JohnsonRebekah RochaTommy AdamsLaura LeBlanc Chelsea Wilcox

Lewis Travis

Design is not about how things LOOK

Design is about HOW things WORK

How do we change the users experience?

Who is Leadership + Design?

What is this workshop?

How did they teach us to explore Design Based learning?

Mithune: The importance of Common Space

Mithune: Common Space

Open & Rotating Work Spaces

Open & Rotating Work Spaces

The heart of design is to re-define problems

First you need to Build your Design Team

Work together to Create a “Collective Action” Toolkit

List your skillsDraw avatarList team skills

Skills & Avatars

Skills & Avatars

Skills & Avatars

Skills & Avatars

Skills & Avatars

Bringing our team together

Group & Individual Skills

Kathy’s Team! The Sun Valley Community School

Ethnographic Research

Research Tools: Empathy

Empathy is hard, its hard to understand other positions

Ethnographic Research

Identifying the Needs:

Answers we discovered during ethnographic research, used to re-define our original question

Re-Defining the Question:

New (deeper) Question: How do we create a flexible, socially interactive play space?

1. Who is the User?2. What is the need?3. What is your solution?4. What is the scenario for its use?

Developing Brainstorming Skills

Key Brainstorming Supplies!

A working Brainstorm Wall

Brainstorming• Need a well defined problem statement• Ideation: Emphasize Volume over quality

• 3-8 people ideal• big Space• Sugar!

• Iterate the problem statement• One idea per post-it• Bad ideas can surface good ideas

• Dedicated leapfrog time = take 1 idea and add 5 more to that theme• Organize the Event horizon = Ground /Mountain/Sky ideas.

• One moderator who is time keeper

Brainstorming Rules:

No wrong ideasNo negatives

Zero commentary

Go for sheer volume of ideas!

Prototype: Creating Solutions

Flexible Furniture Designs

Our Vimeo video prototype for The Community School, Sun Valley, Idaho

https://vimeo.com/76778051