Client: UNITE, United Nations Innovation Lab as a graduate student at Parsons The New School for design. 2015
Team: Andrea So Loyal, Kathy James, Maprang M Aroonrut, Pankhuri Kanwar, Westry Green
The Creative Process
You can't help someone else do their job but you sure can help them tackle it better.
The tools carefully imbed a sense of playfulness and help the user refresh themselves with a new perspective during tense situations. Taking inspirations from nostalgia and simplicity, these tools offer a leader ways to think differently and help them assess themselves while making them realise that problems are essentially a window to newer opportunities.
1. Paper fortune teller
2. Sample Persona Questions
1. Paper fortune teller: Helps a leader to break away from an overwhelming situation by a simple play of fingers. Each number suggests a way to address the problem from holding a conversation with someone from a completely different background to booking for a workshop or listen to a talk about the topic at hand.
2. Sample Persona Questions: In order to better understand colleagues and consumers a set of questions that help sketch out the persons character and how to address people in the work space.
3. Pick an option blindfolded: In tense situations this tool helps people to just break free. Close your eyes, roll your fingers over and do whats picked! It sure will help you breathe.
4. Reading material:
4. Reading Material in order to help inculcate a design thinking approach.
5. A simple roadmap to fill during each project which helps lay out the problem better.
5. Retrospection while problem solving: