Put together an interdisciplinary Design Thinking Team of five to six people to bring together as many different experience stands as possible at one table. Collaboration between people from different disciplines enables you to look at problems from different perspectives and to come up with completely new ideas as solutions. When putting together a team, make sure that there is a common focus and that there is no competition.


Start prototype development quickly

Design thinking doesn't mean sitting in a room all day discussing colorful post-its. Rather, it's about "thinking with your hands" and developing prototypes as quickly as possible. In practice, we often experience in companies that support from a moderator or facilitator is needed in this phase. After many years at the desk, many people are simply no longer used to designing something with their hands. Initially, this inhibition threshold often has to be overcome in order for the team members to get started.

A creative process needs an environment in which ideas can flourish and prototypes can be developed. In Design Thinking projects you often approach the topic very playfully. For example, situations in the form of stories or sketches that you have seen at the customer or user are replayed. The Design Thinking Team therefore needs a workplace that is as flexible as possible and can be adapted quickly and easily to the needs of the team members. Flipcharts, whiteboards and tables on castors are best suited to redesign the room as it is needed. In addition, there should be enough material available to visually present ideas.


Allow even crazy ideas to happen

The last two steps of a design thinking process are to generate ideas and develop prototypes from them, which are then tested at the customer's site. The more ideas the better" always applies with regard to idea generation. Be experimental, think outside the box and allow crazy ideas - anything is possible! Get away from conventional ideas and collect as many ideas as possible. It's also important to learn how to throw away an idea for a better solution - even if it's your own idea that you have to throw away.

Design Thinking is to empathize with users to find out what the real problem is and what the user's needs are. In practice, too little attention and time is usually given to this phase. For example, you commission some interviews from a market research institute and build the Design Thinking process on them. In the course of the project, it turns out that the problems lie completely elsewhere.

Fail early and fail often! Design thinking is based on an iterative process. If you start all over again after the customer's feedback on your prototype, you are on the right track. You have saved a lot of time and money, because you have already found out before the implementation of the idea that it will fail on the market. With Design Thinking you need the courage to go through several loops. Innovation needs failure. You learn from feedback and improve through repetition. Of course, in a world where failure is frowned upon, this approach can be challenging. Then it depends on whether you really have the courage to fail.

Design Thinking focuses on customer needs

Many innovations fail on the market because they do not bring added value to the customer. To avoid this, Design Thinking shifts the focus from a purely technical solution to a human solution: Design Thinking is an innovation approach that focuses on customer needs and gradually approaches the best solution via iterative feedback loops. This allows user needs to be identified, innovative ideas to be evaluated or solutions for complex interdisciplinary problems to be found. Please also read our article on this subject 

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