Stanford University d.School’s Bootcamp Bootleg Blog presents an
array of very interesting approaches to design thinking. I chose
two methods from the blog that I regular practice. They are:
“Saturate and Group You space saturate to help you unpack
thoughts and experiences into tangible and visual pieces of
information that you surround yourself with to inform and
inspire the design team. You group these findings to explore
what themes and patterns emerge, and strive to move toward
identifying meaningful needs of people and insights that will
inform your design solutions. Stoke activities help teams loosen
up and become mentally and physically active. Use stoke
activities when energy is wavering, to wake up in the morning,
to launch a meeting, or before a brainstorm.” Saturate and Group
is quite similar to developing a concept map, in that you gather
all the ideas, group them based on similarities, and draw
connections. I like the idea of Saturate and Group, because you
are able to layout your ideas and easil