Unit 4: Design and Potential Interventions

Lesson 2: How to run a design session

To run a design session you want:

  • a diverse set of stakeholders in the room
  • to give give regular prompts so each ideation goes for about 2–3 minutes
  • to generate ideas against a balance of both promoting and inhibiting pressures

You can have everyone think of the same pressure. Or you can break into groups and brainstorm different pressures off the pressure map.

Activity:

The purpose of a design session is to generate as many diverse ideas as possible, so long as they are clearly connected to the underlying pressures.

What is one reason it is important not to judge the quality of ideas at this point?

Unit 4: Design and Potential Interventions - Lesson 3: Start with a simple prompt