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Design Thinking: Idea Generation Activities

Stage: Exploration and researching

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Audience: Administrators & Supervisors

Summary

Design thinking, a human-centered approach to problem-solving, can help program designers understand the unique challenges and opportunities faced by student employees. By empathizing with students, defining the problem, ideating potential solutions, prototyping ideas, and testing them with student and student employee supervisors, program designers can create a program that is innovative, effective, and sustainable. The following resource details a number of idea generation activities that can be leveraged as part of the design thinking process. 

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How to use this resource

  1. Download the idea generation activities and review.
  2. As you are considering how you will facilitate this portion of  your design thinking session or process, choose the activities from this resource that will support your process. 
  3. You may use more than one of the activities in your design thinking process. 
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Created: Dec 10, 2024

Updated: Dec 10, 2024

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