Design Thinking for Innovation – Karim Elnazer

Challenge:

During Coronavirus time here in Dubai March 2020, am a father of a family of 4 with my wife and 2  children (13 and 10). As a family we used to go out a lot and we also had very active night life  without the kids. With almost everything closed in the city, as a family we had many ideas on what  we can do during this time we have remote schooling and working from home. All ideas had some  levels of risks (e.g. going out with bicycles or inviting neighbors so increase the possibility of virus  exposure) or investments (e.g. paying for more subscribed TV channels) so needed to prioritize.

Selection:

The tool I selected was Learning Launch to filter and prioritize each idea.

Please watch the video lecture of Bernd Kersten (week 4) for best explanation for the tool.

Application:

I made a family time where I explained to my wife and kids the process. I focused on Data and our  assumptions and confirmation biases. I focused on finding out under what circumstances a certain  idea could be a bad one, and looking for discomforting fact. My son (10y.o.) played a great role in  this being the most skeptic of the family 😊

Insight:

One great insight when we look at the facts that “must be true” was discussing some assumptions  that we will be in this lockdown for only 2 or 3 weeks. Some more pessimistic scenarios can take  more time, so the ideas have to be sustainable.

Approach:

One of things that I could have done differently is to decide to do this regularly, or invite more  friends/neighbors/family via video conference to participate.

