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The Design Gym @ 320 5th Ave, New York, NY
A great facilitator makes it easy for groups of people to collaborate, make decisions, and move projects forward. Facilitation blends the science of understanding how people think and behave with the art of leading conversations and assessing needs on the fly. The skills of facilitation can be applied to any type of group work including – but not limited to! – one-on-one conversations, round table discussions, design thinking brainstorms, debrief...
The Design Gym @ 122 Hudson St, New York, NY
It’s no secret; better understanding your customers—their thoughts, motivations, actions—helps you to design better products, services and experiences. Today’s most successful and innovative organizations are looking beyond what people are doing and discovering why their users are making the decisions they make. To do this, one needs a set of tools and tactics to both collect data and pull out insights. Over this two-day, immersive workshop,...
The Design Gym @ 150 West 28th Street, New York, NY
Full Course Title: Facilitating Design Thinking: Understanding Customer Behavior It’s no secret; better understanding your customers—their thoughts, motivations, actions—helps you to design better products, services and experiences. Today’s most successful and innovative organizations are looking beyond what people are doing and discovering why their users are making the decisions they make. To do this, one needs a set of tools and...
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The Design Gym @ 320 5th Ave, New York, NY
This is a fast-paced introduction to some of the tools and mindsets of Design Thinking. In this 3 hour session we’ll collaboratively take a problem through the Design Thinking process. You’ll leave with a basic understanding of how to conduct user interviews, generate ideas with groups, sketch your solutions, and how to tell the world about your concept. If you’ve never been out to one of our events before this is a great introduction to...
The Design Gym @ 1214 Broadway, New York, NY
Overview What do you want to be when you grow up? We might get older, but this question certainly doesn’t. Put on a designer’s hat for an evening to work on one of the toughest challenges out there – planning your future. Design thinking is a great problem solving technique for wicked problems ‐ ones that we have no set solution for and where the course of action could change mid‐process. It turns out your life fits the definition of a...
The Design Gym @ 1412 Broadway 39th St, New York, NY
What to Learn: Managing and leveraging groupthink How to Generate ideas and when to choose ideas: Creating Experience Arcs A modular approach to implementing and using the process in your work The Five Phases of Design Thinking and how to use them
The Design Gym @ 447 Broadway, New York, NY
We’ve all developed a great idea that has suffered an untimely death. There are tons of reasons why even the best ideas don’t get the buy-in they deserve—bureaucracy, organizational inertia, initiative fatigue, the list goes on and on. Generating a great idea is only half the battle. The other half is the process you use to develop that idea. That’s one of the reasons we love Design Sprints—they’re a great process for helping you both...
The Design Gym @ 320 5th Ave, New York, NY
As adults (in New York City), we spend a significant portion of our time at work. There’s no denying it, our work environment strongly influences how we show up both inside and outside our office. There’s a lot at play in our organizations: ambitious goals, tight deadlines, and let’s not forget the people dynamics. With everything that’s going on, it’s easy to get caught up in the day to day without understanding the underlying challenges...
The Design Gym @ 1412 Broadway 39th St, New York, NY
We all have good ideas. Every day. Lots of them. How do we know if we’re making what people really need, or just designing for ourselves? This workshop is about creating a low stakes environment to start taking some action. It’s time to break that idea, rebuild it, share it, and put it into motion in a more powerful way. 3 reasons you should come: It’s fun Your ideas will be stronger Do you need another reason? What it is: Come join...
The Design Gym @ 320 5th Ave, New York, NY
Design Thinking is a creative problem solving method and mindset. It’s human-centered, iterative, and collaborative. By using empathetic research techniques, creative brainstorming skills, and rapid prototyping techniques, Design Thinking leads to more interesting and effective ideas. It’s also pretty fun! In this Bootcamp, you will learn: A common language for using the five-phase Design Thinking process Tools that you can apply immediately...
The Design Gym @ 1412 Broadway 39th St, New York, NY
Sketching Bootcamp: Using Visuals to Sell Ideas and Solve Problems Whiteboard (or flipchart) sketching is the fastest and easiest way to convey your ideas, to help shape the conversations in meetings and foster team alignment…yet many of us don’t feel comfortable in the front of the room with a marker in hand In one dynamic day, you’ll get a basic framework for selling ideas, solving problems and sketching complex information in...
Over one intense day, we’ll take a small group of Design Gym enthusiasts and prepare them to run groups large and small. At the end of the day, you’ll be ready to run groups on your own and with others. You’ll walk away with fresh skills on group facilitation, planning and management, as well as deeper experience with each. This Master class isn’t a day of us talking at you, it’s a day of practical exercises and discussions to prepare...
UX and User Experience Design are used almost interchangeably in common conversation. But few businesses are totally digital and almost no business can escape having a digital touchpoint. In one intensive day we'll answer the question: We’ll cover the essentials of User Experience Design and Strategy, covering topics in digital and physical experience design. We’ll cover the 5 key deliverables of a good experience design strategy, the 5Es of...
Developing a deep understanding of users’ behavior, thoughts, needs, and desires helps design teams solve well-defined problems. User research is the means by which we gain this understanding. User Research focuses on discovering how people interact with products and services, about their frustrations and pains, and determining potential solutions to improve their everyday lives. Part I: User Research Method This workshop consists of two parts:...
Facilitation Practice Lab | Preparing & Planning for Creative Collaboration There is a critical step that exists between learning design thinking (Bootcamps) and actually leading it in your organization – practice. The Practice Lab offering creates a safe and supportive environment to practice design thinking skills. We will help you build the creative muscle memory before you take them into the real world. Practice labs are about 10%...
You can make a game out of pretty much anything. The key is figuring out a smart way to use the object to spark play and rules to shape that play. A playful activity lays at the heart of many popular games. Soccer grows out of kicking a ball. The joy of stacking blocks provides the basis of Jenga. Spinning tops power Beyblades. Playful activities need not be limited to toys: Pick up any object, spend a few minutes playing with it and you will...
Panel | Designing Culture: Strategies for bringing creativity to your organization Creating a culture of innovation is not a one size fits all proposition. In fact, it’s not a question of innovation as much as it is culture change at large, and that looks a little different for everyone. Whether it’s a large scale rollout like IBM’s Design Studio initiatives, a core team of catalysts like Intuit’s famed ‘Design 4 Delight’ initiative,...
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