Think to Design - Visualization

Challenge and Selection:

During the ‘Design Thinking for Innovation’ course I got a chance to apply the concept into practice in a  live project. I was delighted to accept the challenge with both hands.

Problem Statement: Revamp of our existing in-house Travel Portal for employees and make it more  interactive, easy to navigate and more stakeholder friendly.

Tool Selection: We as a team had meeting with all the stakeholders – Travel team, frequent travelers,  Admin team, Finance team, Facilities team to understand the pain points of the existing tool and what  feature will enlighten them. After all the interviews we jointly answered the four questions to start our  design thinking workshop. As we are up to designing a web portal with a lot of visual elements, we decided  to go with visualization.

Here is a snapshot of the four questions:

Application:

After we had decided on the new features/modifications by answering the ‘What Works’, we started on  the actual UX/interface design of the web portal. We as a team gathered in a room and started to put all  the features in the placeholders. We used chart paper to make a wire frame/screen blueprint/visual guide.

We had a few drawings of the web portal, just a look and feel on the chart paper. Once we were satisfied  with the effort we did onboard the other stakeholders for a ‘soft learning launch’ of the visualization of  the web portal. Upon received a few feedbacks we went to the drawing board and improved on the user  interface of the web portal.

Insight & Approach:

Design thinking indeed changed our though process towards solving a problem. It has open our mind  towards the usefulness of team/group thinking, brain storming, learning launch, storytelling and various  other tools. The design thinking workshop had created so much ideas, which we never thought of. This

has helped us in adding a few such features, which the stakeholders did not mention during the interview  process.

As this is my 1st hands on experience with design thinking workshop, now I understand the power of  Design Thinking in problem solving. In my future endeavors I will be more open to apply design thinking  approach.


Think to Design - Visualization Challenge and Selection : During the ‘ Design Thinking for Innovation ’ course I got a chance to apply the concept into practice in a live project . I was delighted to accept the challenge with both hands . Problem Statement : Revamp of our existing in - house Travel Portal for employees and make it more interactive , easy to navigate and more stakeholder friendly . Tool Selection : We as a team had meeting with all the stakeholders – Travel team , frequent travelers , Admin team , Finance team , Facilities team to understand the pain points of the existing tool and what feature will enlighten them . After all the interviews we jointly answered the four questions to start our design thinking workshop . As we are up to designing a web portal with a lot of visual elements , we decided to go with visualization . Here is a snapshot of the four questions : Application : After we had decided on the new features / modifications by answering the ‘ What Works ’ , we started on the actual UX / interface design of the web portal . We as a team gathered in a room and started to put all the features in the placeholders . We used chart paper to make a wire frame / screen blueprint / visual guide . We had a few drawings of the web portal , just a look and feel on the chart paper . Once we were satisfied with the effort we did onboard the other stakeholders for a ‘ soft learning launch ’ of the visualization of the web portal . Upon received a few feedbacks we went to the drawing board and improved on the user interface of the web portal . Insight & Approach : Design thinking indeed changed our though process towards solving a problem . It has open our mind towards the usefulness of team / group thinking , brain storming , learning launch , storytelling and various other tools . The design thinking workshop had created so much ideas , which we never thought of . This has helped us in adding a few such features , which the stakeholders did not mention during the interview process . As this is my 1st hands on experience with design thinking workshop , now I understand the power of Design Thinking in problem solving . In my future endeavors I will be more open to apply design thinking approach .