Campbell Library Design Challenge
Design Thinking Slides
*Note to teachers: Here you will find different graphic organizers to guide your students through the design thinking process. Feel free to adapt as necessary.
Your Mission: Design for your user. Start by gaining empathy.
1. Interview :: 20 min ::
Notes from your interview:
People You Can Interview
-Family Members
-Teachers
-Classmates
-Neighbors
Sample Question Starters:
What works for you about our library experience?
What doesn’t work for you about our library experience?
Tell me a story about your library experience.
Your Mission: Design for your user. Start by gaining empathy.
2. Interviews
Someone who enjoys the library experience
Someone who dislikes the library experience
Someone who has never been to the library
Your Mission: Design for your user. Start by gaining empathy.
3. Observations :: 10 min : What do you see? What do you hear?:
How might we... reimagine the library experience?
Map the highs and lows of the person you interviewed
time
3. Define your point of view :: 5 min ::
Reframe the problem.
I met...
A short and vivid description of the most compelling user you interviewed.
I was amazed to realize...
A surprising thing you noticed or a new and unexpected thing you learned from that interaction.
I wonder if this means...
Your most inspiring or rich insight (an inference of the meaning or reason behind the surprising observation you made.)
It seems like she/he needs a way to...
Based on your insight, capture the need of this user in the form of an interesting opportunity.
Ideate: generate ways to meet your user’s needs.
4. Sketch as many radical ways to meet your user’s needs as you can. :: 15 min ::
write your problem statement above
Iterate based on feedback.
5. Reflect & Generate a new solution. :: 15 min ::
write your problem statement above
Build and test.
6. Build your solution :: 20 min ::
7. Share your solution and get feedback :: 10 min (5 min each) ::
Make something your partner can interact with!
[aka don’t make it here!]
[aka build it!]
+ What worked...
? Questions...
– What could be improved...
! Ideas...