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Design Thinking for Children
Edwin DandoAssurity
@edwindando
GMLong service AgileScrum.org trainerEvidence Based Management consultant
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Assurity Consulting Limited • Commercial in Confidence • Company Presentation Nov 2015
Assurity Consulting Limited • Commercial in Confidence • Company Presentation Nov 2015
The 4th Industrial Revolution
Age of Manufacturing
Age of Distribution
Age of Information
Digital Age (Age of the Customer)
And what about these guys?Uber -> worlds largest taxi company -> owns no vehiclesAirbnb -> worlds largest accommodation provider -> no real estateFacebook -> worlds largest media owner -> creates no contentAlibaba -> worlds most valuable retailer -> no inventory
DisruptionGlobally, 72 percent of CEOs believe that the next 3 years will be more critical for their industry than the last 50. CEOs believe it’s now or never.
Source: KPMG 2016 Global CEO Outlook
Our world is rapidly decentralising
• Easier• Robust• Control based• Fragile• Vulnerable - shocks, attacks & failures
• Resilient• Participative• Diverse• Require connectivity• Difficult to standardise• Loss of economise of scale
• Highly responsive• Naturally resilient and adaptive• Intelligent
• Cannot be controlled
Examples• Nature• The Internet• Etherum & Bitcoin • Terror cells • Crowd economics• Future business?
•In 5 years, 35% of skills considered important in today will have changed.
•Creativity will be one of the top three skills workers will need.
•Emotional intelligence will become the top skills needed by all
*World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs study
Social skills
Poorly paid as large supply of workers
Future roles in demand
AUTOMATED
Engineers
Assurity Consulting Limited • Commercial in Confidence • Company Presentation Nov 2015
From management of work to • Team work• Emotional Intelligence, • Facilitation
Assurity Consulting Limited • Commercial in Confidence • Company Presentation Nov 2015
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“they need to the skills necessary for the future - collaboration, creativity, empathy and the ability to solve complex problems”
What do we need to teach?
Ed: Agile? Maybe? On what work?Gary: Hmmm, good point. What about something practical we could work on with them?Ed: What problems do you face?Gary: the sandpit! It’s a problem...
Learn about the audience for whom you are designing by observation and interview
Who is my user?
What matters to them?
• Data collection technique> 2 interviewing, 2 writing, 1 recording, 1 drawing
•Key needs
> fun> learning & development> tidy & sand not wasted> water conservation.
Group 1 - Principal
• Key concerns > Fairness> Behaviour> Safety
Group 2 - Staff
Group 3 - Teachers
Group 4 - Kids
Group 5 - Parents
• Epic fail! Pivot and try again.
• A vital way for them to learn and grow
• We don’t have a sandpit at home. Using it in the weekend is great.
• Sandy clothes block the washing machine.
• My son copies his digger driver uncles
• Alternative to wet fields in winter
Collate all the information together - visual systemsThemesPresentations – either poster or electronicDiscussions Identify key learningsCreate a Learning Wall for ongoing reference
Group basedIndividualOver time…
First round – epic fail! Too ambitiousGo back to IdeateRefineTry again
• Testing prototype with users• Does this solve their real problem? • Now they see it, do they see any issues (IKIWISI)• What could be better?
What’s happening this week?
• Develop a plan> materials required> labour & skills required> order of work> costs
• Kids to submit plan to Board for approval• Build it!
Then what?
• Design Thinking is very natural for kids• Collaboration is natural for kids• Solutions come too quickly for all of us• The parents LOVE it
>“what is happening with the sandpit project?”> “my child raves about this!”
Key learnings
• Learning by doing is vital• Adults often don’t feel comfortable with simple prototypes• Kids minds are phenomenal
>“We could use this to solve problems in our school…”>“We could use this to solve problems in our community…”> “We could use this to solve problems in our country…”
Key learnings