Design Thinking Workshop at GUADEC in The Hague

GNOME News 30.07.2010 19:30  We are going to give a Design Thinking Workshop at GUADEC this year. We are a group of fellow students from the . Outside of the classes at D-School we are doing workshops and offer consulting services based on Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a user-centric method that leverages the creative potential of interdisciplinary teams. It is very agile and fun to apply, as play is a crucial element of the process. It has proven to be very successful in designing highly user-centric products, experiences and services at places like the D-School in Potsdam, the d.school at Standford University and especially at IDEO, an internationally successful design consultancy. You might have seen pictures of rooms stuffed with whiteboards, all of them covered in colorful post-its, low-res prototypes and toys everywhere … where you can immediately imagine the fun teams must have had working in this environment … this is what Design Thinking often looks like. GNOME people and the GNOME project could highly benefit from this method not only in tailoring the platform to users-needs . Our team is very much looking forward to the workshop and will be ready and well-prepared with fun and demanding challenges tailored to the needs of the community. Be prepared to listen and understand real users and their needs. Get ready to brainstorm wild ideas. Finally get your hands on paper, scissors, glue and LEGO, to rapid-prototype your best ideas. We will be working on 2 challenging topics from the GNOME universe. All in all we hope to introduce you and the GNOME project to the methodology of Design Thinking. We will offer the Workshop to the community for free as in beer. Only we would be happy to get a small donation to cover our expenses for the workshop material like the Post-Its and brainfood. If you want to join, please drop us a quick E-Mail so we can reserve one of the 20 places for you. Also tell us if you prefer Monday or Tuesday. Both Workshops start at 9:30 in the morning. Please contact: cbuss AT src\GNOME/org. Or you feel lucky and come straight to where the BoFs are. There will also be a Lighting Talk on Friday where we will talk about the essentials of Design Thinking and present the results of the Workshop. You can also check out or blog,  which is now in German. However, as we were blogging initially in English, check out our older posts on Design Thinking to get a first impression of the method and how the workshop will be like: 1.  2.  3.  Find out more about us at  . Also make sure you follow us on twitter , to get updates on the workshop

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