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Strategic Design
ASK.TRY.DO
Thinking Strategies
Strategic Design Research
Toolkit
Techniques
Five Whys and Six Universal Questions
Concept Mapping
Story Share
Observation
Empathy Interview
Assumption Dumption
Eye Phone
Role Play
Free Write
Brainstorm
Max Axes
How Might We
Service Journey
Time Task Scheduling
Six Thinking Hats
Options Evaluation Matrix
Journaling
Scenarios
SCAMPER
Prototyping
Ethnography
Decision Tree
Sift, Sort, Rank
Dotmocracy (Nominal Grouping)
SWOT
World Cafe
Open Space
Warm-ups
Visual Thinking
Visualization (The Balloon Voyage)
Team SWOT
Constraints Toggle
Baseball Cards
Improv
Free Drawing
Business Canvas Model
Design Processes
Resources
External Projects

Techniques

These techniques are nominally organized under ASK.TRY.DO — however, many of them are useful under one or all of these phases of the strategic design process. Feel free to try them out any time!

ASK

Finding Facts/Finding Meaning

  • Assumption Dumption
  • Baseball Cards
  • Business Canvas Model
  • Decision Tree
  • Empathy Interview
  • Ethnography
  • Eye Phone
  • Five Whys and Six Universal Questions
  • Service Journey
  • Story Share
  • SWOT
  • Team SWOT

Finding Opportunities

  • Brainstorm
  • Free Drawing
  • Free Write
  • How Might We
  • Observation
  • SCAMPER
  • Sift, Sort Rank
  • Six Thinking Hats
  • Visualization (The Balloon Voyage)
  • Warm-ups

TRY

  • Concept Mapping
  • Constraints Toggle
  • Dotmocracy (Nominal Grouping)
  • Max Axes
  • Open Space
  • Options Evaluation Matrix
  • Prototyping
  • Role Play
  • Scenarios
  • Visual Thinking
  • World Cafe

DO

  • Improv
  • Time Task Scheduling
  • Journaling


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