Design Thinking is a dynamic and iterative process that teams employ to delve into the depths of user understanding, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and craft innovative solutions through prototyping and testing. Comprising five distinct phases—Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test—it is particularly effective in addressing ill-defined or unknown problems.
Drawing from the diverse toolkit of designers, this approach seamlessly integrates the needs of users, the potential of technology, and the imperatives of business success. Through its non-linear nature, Design Thinking encourages exploration, experimentation, and collaboration, fostering the creation of solutions that truly resonate with users and drive meaningful impact.
As Design Thinking sessions need users’ full participation, it works best during in-person settings. However the modern approach of using virtual white-board applications to collaborate and run design thinking sessions, it’s easier for participants to become distracted or disengaged due to the absence of physical presence and environmental cues. This can lead to decreased attention spans and reduced participation levels.
For sometime, I have been exploring with some of the custom tuned models to explore the possibility of creating a non-evasive approach to integrate AI into In-person Design Thinking sessions, and creating a collection of tools clubbed under a name “CoSpace” – meaning tools for collaborative space for human-AI interaction. However this collaboration is not expected for in virtual white board, rather the approach was a baby step towards AI collaborating with human participants in a physical space during Design Thinking sessions.
Using these tools, with support from Dr. Amar Behera from Department of Design, IIT Kanpur, we came up an experiment to conduct the first of its kind in-person design thinking session where AI would be a facilitator and participant. On March 19th, 2024, we ran this workshop with 20 students…
See Article with full details on experiment and research:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-experiences-using-ai-5-first-ever-ai-facilitated-samir-dash-eo3gc/?trackingId=APR3DcEGSj23pG2xy3QtXw%3D%3D