Adapting the Design Thinking Process - Design Sprint Conference 2017

Google Design2018-04-17

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Surya Vanka introduces design swarms, an agile workshop merging sprints with design, engaging novices and experts like Katie Buono. Richard Kelly praises designers for addressing global issues collaboratively. Vanka emphasizes curiosity in agile and design thinking, fostering innovation and breaking silos globally.

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Discussion on design swarms and their alignment with the design process in an agile workshop.

02:25

Katie Buono finds the session exciting and gains new techniques for creative thinking.

Richard Kelly emphasizes designers' ability to address global issues through collaborative problem-solving.

Surya Vanka discusses his curiosity driving involvement in the intersection of agile and design thinking.

Vanka fosters a community of engaged professionals breaking silos to innovate together globally.

00:00SPEAKER 1: As part of the Sprint conference

00:02hosted at Google in November of 2017,

00:05Surya Vanka shared how he uses design swarms to help

00:09communities engage in co-creation techniques

00:11to solve local problems.

00:14By bringing this topic to the conference,

00:16we were able to engage and inspire practitioners

00:19on the flexibility of the process.

00:25SURYA VANKA: A design swarms workshop

00:27is a highly facilitated agile workshop in which participants

00:34move to a series of sprints and each of those sprints

00:38is aligned to a state of the design process.

00:41The design swarms workshops have a strength

00:44in that they are able to bring in people who are typically

00:49at three different levels.

00:51People who are absolute novices in design who have never

00:56heard about design before, have never practiced design,

00:59do not know that there's something called a design

01:02process.

01:02But they may be experts in some other field,

01:05or they may just be experts in their own lives.

01:07And then it has folks who have some fluency in the design

01:11process, so perhaps they've had a chance to work that's PMs.

01:16They've had a chance to work as developers

01:18or in some other way being associated the design

01:21process, and then finally, the people who

01:24are skilled designers.

01:25KATIE BUONO: The session I saw earlier with Surya

01:29was really exciting, because it opened my mind to how just how

01:34many more techniques and methods there

01:36might be to use with my students to get them thinking creatively

01:41about their projects.

01:42I'm in the process of collecting just about as many ideas

01:47for getting my students creatively involved.

01:51I think that's the toughest part of my job

01:53is how do you make those aha moments happen?

01:57I don't believe that they just come randomly.

01:59I believe you have to work for them, and I believe in the idea

02:02that there are techniques to make that happen.

02:05And I'm on a mission to collect as many as possible.

02:08RICHARD KELLY: I think designers have a innate ability if they

02:12can have some patience to get rooted

02:15in those much bigger problems that are going on in the world.

02:18And then they have an interesting collaborative way

02:20of collaborating with users and coming up with those ideas.

02:25SURYA VANKA: The reason I'm here really is curiosity.

02:29You know, there is this very, very interesting community

02:36forming at the confluence of what

02:40I like to say agile and design thinking.

02:43These are two of the forces that are shaping our world,

02:48and there's a small group of people who actually have

02:51gotten very engaged in this.

02:53And because they've been working in their own silos

02:57and taking different approaches, it's

03:00kind of a rich time to see what's

03:02been building in all the little laboratories tucked away

03:06in different parts of the world.

03:08And so that's just been fascinating.

03:10[MUSIC PLAYING]

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