Workspace Template Overview

Before jumping into the workshop itself, let's introduce & get familiar with the workhorse template of this toolkit, the Project Framing Workspace template.

The Problem Framing Toolkit

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Getting Started with the Toolkit

  • Welcome to the toolkit! (start here)3
  • What is Problem Framing?
  • #2 - Planning your time.mp4

Downloadables: Tools & Templates

  • Facilitator's Guide
  • Problem Framing toolkit tour
  • Agenda4
  • Team Presentation Deck: Keynote10
  • Team Presentation Deck: PowerPoint
  • Harmonia Font Files
  • Cooper Hewitt Font Files
  • Digital Templates: Mural
  • Digital Templates: Miro, 1 of 4
  • Digital Templates: Miro, 2 of 4
  • Digital Templates: Miro, 3 of 4
  • Digital Templates: Miro, 4 of 4

Preparing for Framing

  • Step 0 - Pre-work2
  • Alternative Pre-work activity: Embarrassing Stories

Running Your Framing Workshop

  • From Pre-work to Framing
  • Workspace Template Overview
  • Step 1 - Problem Discovery
  • Step 2 - Problem Sensing
  • Step 3 - Problem Categorization
  • Step 4 - Context Analysis
  • Step 5 - User Mapping
  • Step 6 - Target Definition
  • Step 7 - Opportunity Exploration
  • Step 8 - Problem Reframing
  • Step 9 - Reflection
  • Bonus Step - Problem Leveling

Wrapping Up

  • What to do next
  • Design Sprints after framing

Additional Resources

  • 📘 Problem Framing Foundations
  • 🎥 Abstracting Problems
  • 📘 Framing Design Problems
  • 🎥 Design Thinking & Strategy - Good Kitchen Case Study
  • 🎥 The Cynefin Framework
  • 🎧 Mapping Experiences
  • 🎥 Facilitator's Q&A with Jay
  • 🎥 Getting started with MURAL
  • 🎥 Getting started with Miro
  • ⚡️ Design Sprint Toolkit