This is a repost of an article posted on the HPI d.school blog by Felix and me during the workshop “Innovation in early education – leveraging diverse cultural backgrounds”.
Ok, so we all know that sometimes you need to go back in the design thinking process. Maybe during testing you realize that your prototype is just not working or its fixing the wrong problem. You might want to go back to brainstorming to come up with something different, that does fix the right problem and fixes it in the right way. It seems like a reasonable thing to do. If something doesn’t work, come up with something else!
Today (Workshop day IV), however, we experienced a situation where we had to go back to the beginning of ideation. Maybe even to Point of View. So we went back and went through “Point of View” and “Ideation” again. Just to end up with the same solution we had before. So what happened? What was different now?
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