#howmightwe

[rpardorlcdd-blog]

How might we help less fortunate people deal with the cold?

I’m excited to work on this project because I feel like it can really make a difference in the community. I’m also excited to start this project so that I can give it my best.

[luvtheproblem]

A practical guide to “How Might We” questions

The goal of the How Might We method is to make the participants more responsive to new ideas, to allow them to acknowledge they don’t know the answer of the problem they are trying to solve and to invite them to collaborate in order to find a possible solution.  

How implies there are multiple alternatives to explore and that there is no one right answer. Might suggests the options discussed may or may not work and that’s ok. We imply the it’s a team effort and encourages the participants to work together.

The words people chose to describe a problem often influences the ability to solve it. The HMW method reframes the problem into a challenge without prescribing a solution.

If we look closely the example “I’m tired of having so many zoom calls per day” we see a fixed reality, a discontent towards the situation. The sentence does not invite one to seek for alternatives from the situation they are in, it only expresses a dislike. If we convert the sentence into “How might we have less zoom calls per day?” it encourages the participants to consider possible way out from the situation.

The HMW approach allows you to gather as much information as possible about a problem. The more HMW questions are generated the easier would be to identify ways to solve the issue you are facing. As Linus Pauling once said: “The way to get good ideas is to get a lot of ideas and through the bed ones away”.

A simple formula for HMW questions is How might we + action + challenge

How might we + have + (less) zoom calls per day                           action              challenge

A HWM question should generate solutions but at the same time should be specific enough to target the problem your team is facing.

Does your HMW question generates multiple solutions?

If Yes, great

If No -> make it more broad

Is your HMW question specific enough to guide you where to start your exploration?

If yes, great

If No -> add limits

[curiocitykkb385-blog]

Workshop 2: Define and Ideate

This week was an exciting one! It was finally time to start brainstorming and thinking of ideas for Curiocity. 

 In thinking of our ideas, we had to ask ourselves “How might we” questions to help guide our ideas and match any ideas we have to our provocation.

Our three “How might we” questions that our team felt truely encapsulates the provocation and what we wanted our ideas to include were:

1. How might we blend creativity, art, science and technology to deliver an interactive and engaging experience for Curiocity audiences? 

2. How might we brand Brisbane Locations to make them memorable?

3. How might we create curiosity amongst a diverse audience?

Using these questions, each idea that we would come up with would be guided by these questions. We ended up coming up with three ideas, some encapsulating all of these questions while others only answering one. For example, our polysphere idea blended creativity, art, science and technology together, but we began to struggle to make it location specific and part of the environment. Similarly, our Alice in wonderland curious table combined a diverse audience reactions and was highly engaging through technology and art, however, location and environment became an issue once again, as well as whether the idea could be original enough to suit the client needs for excitement and opening peoples minds. Finally, our flower idea, utilising Brisbane Flora was incredibly location specific and part of the environment, where we decided curiosity would be created by using flowers that would open up/bloom as audiences approached or interacted with the flowers in some way. 

It will be exciting to see how these ideas develop going forward, where audience understand and client brief needs to be looked over once again as a sort of checklist to ensure idea chosen will be the most successful, exciting and engaging for Curiocity and Audiences. 

[chuckllee-blog]

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[chuckllee-blog]

Jammers storyboarding concepts to their #howmightwe questions #GSJamVan #GSJAM #servicedesign #designthinking #Innov8Van #innovation #prototyping #mvp #YVR (at CityStudio Vancouver) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvnnhzbFf6C/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1w2ujyu145var

[kjwilkes]

Destination and Journey

Youth development and empowerment for success. What might character building look like in today’s education system?

Character. Grit. Empathy. Resiliency. Passion. Growth Mindset. These types of terms have all become popular (and slightly worn out) topics in short-form inspirational advice. We see them pop up in TED Talks, op-eds, missions statements, etc. And while these topics have been on a rising trend to a point where some are just watered down bits of cliché, we know that character development is a key part of success.

So how might we encourage it? What might a system of youth development and empowerment look like in alignment with our current education system?

All four of us having experience in the realm of youth education, this is a topic we easily gravitated towards. We shared experiences and bits of inspiration from previous work as well as formative programs we were a part of as kids. Right now we’re thinking big and talking big. We know we’ll have to narrow our scope to a more tangible sub-topic. But we reached a great flow of conversation during our brainstorming phase since this topic is so pertinent to all of us.

[phoebe-chiu-blog]

The “HMW” questions we did last class(1/22) Our group focus on campus materials, students always spend a lot of money on buying school materials and so we are thinking about how can we solve this problem.

[anishdesign]

METHOD: “How might we” statements & Affinity Diagramming

This one is straight from the sprint book (http://www.thesprintbook.com/). 

When you're in the deep end trying to figure out a design space, it can be incredibly difficult to “propose something” - to make the leap from problem to opportunity. 'How might we' statements (done as a team or alone) can help you reframe every issue as an opportunity.

This activity was done in the form on a whiteboard and post-it notes. Once finished, I group similar statements together, drawing connections between them all. 

In this situation, I was able to arrive at a few insights and some questions that require exploration.