Mind mapping-reflection

Challenge     Target youth unemployment in Europe and contribute to the decrease of the

unemployment rate. The numbers speak for themselves, in 2019, 3.3 million

European young people were unemployed.    Youth unemployment has irreparable, damaging results on the future of young

people.

● Workers who are unemployed when young tend to earn significantly less over

their lifetime.

● The young unemployed look at the future less optimistically.

● They also tend to leave the parental home later and start families later.

Resources for insights:   https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/nov/11/europe-cant-afford-to-lose-a nother-generation-to-youth-unemployment    Statistics about youth unemployment:   https://ec.europa.eu/    Selection     We ’ve selected Mind Mapping as a tool in order to help us understand better all the

aspects of the challenge. Mind mapping was the most suitable tool to address this

challenge and to perfect our concepts. It is an efficient tool that helped us to include

and gather all  crucial elements for moving further to the next stages of the project.     Mind mapping it’s a visualization technique that traces with detail all the concepts

related to the central idea. It is an effective visualization tool that helps us transfer all

the crucial information from your brains and put it on paper or at least on the screen.

It’s also an effective and efficient way to understand better all the aspects of a

project and observe logical sequences. This process consists of accessing creative

thoughts by encouraging at the same time all members of the team to contribute

with their original thoughts on the spot.

Application    We had a brainstorming session with my team using the online mind mapping tool

Miro. We started by defining the challenge and all its aspects by putting post-it notes

around it. Then, we defined thoroughly our target audience not only their functional

attributes but also their thoughts and emotions and also we set a group of trigger

questions so we could implement them to gather insights. Afterwards, we identified

our key stakeholders and their involvement on the project.    how the design looked like:    We had defined our central idea and we drew it in the middle of the page of our

online mind mapping tool. Then, we created branches that were representative of

core ideas that derived from our central idea and we connected these branches with

secondary branches that were associated with additional, secondary ideas.

Insight     Our next step was to invite a group of stakeholders and repeat a similar process. We

divided the stakeholders into groups each representing a different area of interest.

We gave a tablet to each team so they could complete the mind map after having a

brainstorming session in which a member of our team was the coordinator and

guided the discussion through trigger questions we had set. At the same time the

coordinator noted interesting insights. The discussion would last about half an hour

and each group would have to come up with a mind map.     In the next meeting we had representatives from each stakeholders group and we

compared the common points of the mind maps that emerged. Then, we combined

the insights that came up in the final form of our mind map.     The final step was to create a digitized copy that summarized the shared and new

insights of the stakeholders’ mind maps and our teams first map.     We projected the final copy and discussed again with the stakeholder’s

representatives to see if there were any objections. Following this process, we

incorporated stakeholders’ feedback into our final mind map.

Approach:    What I’ve learned from incorporating this tool in the process of building this project

was the importance of structuring and defining all the key elements of a project and

taking a close look, examining all the ideas and especially incorporating feedback

and insights from stakeholders. It was a great tool for putting together ideas and

encouraging the team to produce creative ideas. It was indicative how much the

initial idea can be improved by incorporating the critical point of views of

stakeholders and potential beneficiaries of the idea.    It's a particularly easy, fun and engaging tool especially when you are working with

young people that are familiar with technological tools and creative activities.I would

definitely use it in future projects. In comparison to a standard brainstorming where

someone has to keep track of all the ideas and insights and it is possible to miss out

on critical information, mind mapping is the most efficient way to have a clear layout

of your challenge and highlight all of its aspects.

➔ This was a made-up project on an issue I deeply care about and I tried

explaining the process I would follow if I was a leader of a team where we had

to come up with the best concepts for this challenge for a potential client. I

attempted to follow the pillars of design thinking and implementing with the

best way possible the tools that were proposed on the course.


Mind mapping - reflection Challenge Target youth unemployment in Europe and contribute to the decrease of the unemployment rate . The numbers speak for themselves , in 2019 , 3.3 million European young people were unemployed . Youth unemployment has irreparable , damaging results on the future of young people . ● Workers who are unemployed when young tend to earn significantly less over their lifetime . ● The young unemployed look at the future less optimistically . ● They also tend to leave the parental home later and start families later . Resources for insights : https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/nov/11/europe-cant-afford-to-lose-a nother - generation - to - youth - unemployment Statistics about youth unemployment : https://ec.europa.eu/ Selection We ’ ve selected Mind Mapping as a tool in order to help us understand better all the aspects of the challenge . Mind mapping was the most suitable tool to address this challenge and to perfect our concepts . It is an efficient tool that helped us to include and gather all crucial elements for moving further to the next stages of the project . Mind mapping it ’s a visualization technique that traces with detail all the concepts related to the central idea . It is an effective visualization tool that helps us transfer all the crucial information from your brains and put it on paper or at least on the screen . It ’s also an effective and efficient way to understand better all the aspects of a project and observe logical sequences . This process consists of accessing creative thoughts by encouraging at the same time all members of the team to contribute with their original thoughts on the spot . Application We had a brainstorming session with my team using the online mind mapping tool Miro . We started by defining the challenge and all its aspects by putting post - it notes around it . Then , we defined thoroughly our target audience not only their functional attributes but also their thoughts and emotions and also we set a group of trigger questions so we could implement them to gather insights . Afterwards , we identified our key stakeholders and their involvement on the project . how the design looked like : We had defined our central idea and we drew it in the middle of the page of our online mind mapping tool . Then , we created branches that were representative of core ideas that derived from our central idea and we connected these branches with secondary branches that were associated with additional , secondary ideas . Insight Our next step was to invite a group of stakeholders and repeat a similar process . We divided the stakeholders into groups each representing a different area of interest . We gave a tablet to each team so they could complete the mind map after having a brainstorming session in which a member of our team was the coordinator and guided the discussion through trigger questions we had set . At the same time the coordinator noted interesting insights . The discussion would last about half an hour and each group would have to come up with a mind map . In the next meeting we had representatives from each stakeholders group and we compared the common points of the mind maps that emerged . Then , we combined the insights that came up in the final form of our mind map . The final step was to create a digitized copy that summarized the shared and new insights of the stakeholders ’ mind maps and our teams first map . We projected the final copy and discussed again with the stakeholder ’s representatives to see if there were any objections . Following this process , we incorporated stakeholders ’ feedback into our final mind map . Approach : What I ’ve learned from incorporating this tool in the process of building this project was the importance of structuring and defining all the key elements of a project and taking a close look , examining all the ideas and especially incorporating feedback and insights from stakeholders . It was a great tool for putting together ideas and encouraging the team to produce creative ideas . It was indicative how much the initial idea can be improved by incorporating the critical point of views of stakeholders and potential beneficiaries of the idea . It 's a particularly easy , fun and engaging tool especially when you are working with young people that are familiar with technological tools and creative activities . I would definitely use it in future projects . In comparison to a standard brainstorming where someone has to keep track of all the ideas and insights and it is possible to miss out on critical information , mind mapping is the most efficient way to have a clear layout of your challenge and highlight all of its aspects . ➔ This was a made - up project on an issue I deeply care about and I tried explaining the process I would follow if I was a leader of a team where we had to come up with the best concepts for this challenge for a potential client . I attempted to follow the pillars of design thinking and implementing with the best way possible the tools that were proposed on the course .