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Conversation Starters Conversation Starters put a bunch of ideas in front of users to spark their reactions. +

Frame Your Design Challenge Properly framing your design challenge is critical to your success. Here’s how to do it just right. +

Define Your Audience Consider the broad spectrum of people who will be touched by your design solution. +

Align on Your Impact Goals Get crystal clear on the change you want to achieve, in the near-term and long-term. +

The Five Whys This easy research method will help you uncover the deep motivations and assumptions that underpin a person’s behavior. +

Draw It Spur deeper and different kinds of conversations by picking up pen and paper and drawing. +

Explore Your Theory of Change Articulate and interrogate your assumptions about how your solution will create positive change +

Rapid Prototyping This method gives you an overview of the main steps involved in a rapid prototyping phase. +

Create Insight Statements A critical piece of the Ideation phase is plucking the insights that will drive your design out of the huge body of information you’ve gathered. +

Create a Logic Model Capture a clear narrative for how your solution will ladder up to positive change over time +

Integrate Feedback and Iterate Let the feedback of the people you’re designing for guide the next iteration of your solution. +

Ways to Grow Framework This easy-to-make chart will help you understand how potential concepts might require your organization or capacities to grow. +

Determine What to Prototype There are so many ways to prototype an idea. Here’s how to isolate what to test. +

Role Play A quick and tangible way to test an idea or experience is to get into character and act it out. +

Optimize and Adapt for Scale Scaling is hard, but continuing to leverage design principles can set you up for success. +

Define Your Indicators Indicators define the type of data we will collect to understand our impact over time. +

Live Prototyping A Live Prototype is a chance to run your solution for a few weeks or months out in the real world. +

Monitor and Evaluate Your goal has always been to have big impact. Smart measurement will help you get there faster. +

How do I assess if my solution is working?

How do I get started?

How do I conduct an interview?

How do I make sense of what I've heard?

What tools can I use to understand people?

How do I come up with ideas?

How do I choose a solution to take forward?

How do I prototype my ideas?

How do I prepare for launch?