Between half an hour and one hour

Usability/User Testing

Assessment & evaluation, Between half an hour and one hour, Collaborative team setting, Group, Practice-based, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

User (or usability) testing is a process of evaluating a solution idea for a future product or service to see how well it fits the problem or need of the indented target users. The aim of user testing is further more to gather feedback and insights from users in order to improve the user experience, usability and functionality.

Sketching

Between half an hour and one hour, Collaborative team setting, Group, Ideation & Conceptual design, On-line Classroom activity, Practice-based, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

The sketching method is a technique used in the ideation or conceptual design phase of the creativity process to explore and generate new ideas quickly. It involves creating rough, low-fidelity sketches of concepts and ideas to communicate, visualize and evaluate them.

Product Vision Box

Between half an hour and one hour, Collaborative team setting, Design & Prototyping, Group, On-line Classroom activity, Practice-based, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

The Product Vision Box is a fun, useful and collaborative tool, typically utilized at the onset of a new project, that enables team members to clearly define, understand and communicate the vision of a solution. The idea is derived from typical product packaging such as cereals.

NABC

Between half an hour and one hour, Collaborative team setting, Group, Ideation & Conceptual design, On-line Classroom activity, Practice-based, Self-work by students, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

NABC – Needs, Approach, benefit, Competition – is used to frame the development and communication of innovative solutions based on user needs and value creation. It a good way to structure pitches.

Scenarios

Between half an hour and one hour, Between one and two hours, Collaborative team setting, Group, Ideation & Conceptual design, On-line Classroom activity, Practice-based, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

Written Scenarios are plausible descriptions of the future, in which an idea or solution has become reality. Together with Personas they are quick way to explore how a problem is solved for an intended target group and show the usage of a solution in a given context.

Storytelling

15-25, Amount of people, Analysis & problem definition, Between half an hour and one hour, Between one and two hours, Collaborative team setting, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Half an hour or less, Ideation & Conceptual design, Individual, On-line Classroom activity, Practice-based, Theory-based, Type of activity, Type of class, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

Storytelling is all about engaging an audience by applying narrative techniques, it involves bidirectional communication between a storyteller and the listeners aiming to reach them emotionally.

Lotus Blossom

15-25, 25+, Amount of people, Between half an hour and one hour, Collaborative team setting, Design & Prototyping, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Ideation & Conceptual design, On-line Classroom activity, Theory-based, Type of activity, Type of class, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

The Lotus Blossom Technique is a structured brainstorming exercise used to expand on a central idea or problem.

Storyboard

15-25, 25+, Amount of people, Between half an hour and one hour, Between one and two hours, Collaborative team setting, Design & Prototyping, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Half an hour or less, Ideation & Conceptual design, Individual, More than 2 hours, On-line Classroom activity, Practice-based, Self-work by students, Type of activity, Type of class, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

Storyboarding is a technique that visually depicts a user’s interaction with your product.

Personas

Amount of people, Analysis & problem definition, Between half an hour and one hour, Collaborative team setting, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Half an hour or less, Ideation & Conceptual design, On-line Classroom activity, Type of activity, Type of class, Undetermined, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

A Persona represents a fictional character that represents a type of customer or user. The fictional character or persona is created from the synthesis of research data on actual users/customers, generalising on a specific type of user/customer. This method is based on research and is intended to assist in understanding the consumers’ needs, behaviours, experiences, and goals.

Fishbone Diagram

Amount of people, Analysis & problem definition, Assessment & evaluation, Between half an hour and one hour, Collaborative team setting, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Half an hour or less, On-line Classroom activity, Practice-based, Type of activity, Type of class, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

A fishbone diagram is a visual tool used to identify the root causes of a problem. The method is a more structured approach to other root cause identification tools such as 5 Whys. The problem or the effect is displayed on the head of the fish and the possible causes are listed along the smaller bones of the fish under various categories.