Global Service Design Jam 2012 : Cookies Pirates 1_Design thinking Part

I thought the most crazy workshop I’ve tried in the past event is 12hr Mobile App Hackathon but this one is 48 hours for a brand new service design workshop. Compare to the 27 hour real life company I organized before in Taiwan. 48 hour is really a bit long for service design, 48 hour should be enough for 2 workshop in a company. Since this is a global event which is globally 2,061 jammers participated from 85 cities in almost 40 countries.Nearly 350 brand new service designs and published them for the world.

36 dedicated jammers with 11 nationalities split into 5 teams

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure

We have a cool talented B-boy musician/rapper Filosopher who is also got a moniker Mr.Ikea came out the topic and bring all of us together to form a group, the original group name is something like trashy treasure, but then we all agree to changed group name to Cookies Pirates.

Day 1 is mainly Service design introduction & group announcement, topic announcement and group brainstorming. I was suppose to join the Dream team but realized too many people in that group, after walked around different other group, My instinct tell me this is the group I should join, after mingle around with other trash treasure member, I decided to stick with the trash related group.

Once the group member is decided, we all started the brainstorming section and quickly throw out a lot of idea and topic based on “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” orignal idea. At the beginning, everyone briefly introduce and share what we are good at, this section is good for us have an idea what is the final outcome we can produce.

And then we all have to come out at least 10 ideas without thinking too long, total of 70 ideas is created at the first stage and we all talked about own idea and group the similar ideas together.

Total 70 ideas from each team member.

We used Group Ideation, Brain Writing, Trigger Method （1）and 3 type of way for nurturant ideas phase （2）.

After filtered all the potential ideas, we selected 3 main ideas and decided stop discussion and vote for our favorite, each people  have only 1 vote.

The final ideas is below:

1. Travel

2. Home/ Homeless

3. Changing people behavior 

The final 3 main ideas.

Even my home ideas got 4 point, we continued discussion the next day based on this result.

Everyone talked about a big long run thought about environmental friendly and back to nature, we decided to focus this final service in Shanghai. It seems a bit too hard to continued with this topic with 48 hour, in the end this topic is rejected. It will good if this is a week workshop so it might be a good impact to talk about environment protection issue in China.

Rejected ideas

References：

1. http://personalexcellence.co/blog/25-brainstorming-techniques/

2. http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/brainstorming.htm

March 5, 2012 | Categories: Design Competition 設計競賽, Design Thinking 設計思維, User Experience Design 使用者經驗設計, User Interface Design 使用者介面設計, Workshop 工作坊 | Leave A Comment »