Design Thinking Methods Catalogue

A curation of high-quality and helpful design thinking methods

# Empathise

5 Whys: Be a child again for a moment and ask for the deeper meaning of everything.
6 W Method: Ask basic questions to get a fundamental understanding of the issue.
Emotional Journey Map: Understanding the emotional roller coaster of the user.
Interviews: Ask the right people the right questions.
Mindmapping: Drawing the mental map on paper.
Shadowing: Follow the people and their actions inconspicuously.
Search field determination: Become familiar with the problem - from several perspectives.

6-3-5 Method: 6 participants, 3 proposals, 5 rounds and plenty of ideas.
Bodystorming: Experience the context physically and discover new aspects.
Brainstorming: Quality through quantity: generating new ideas in the group.
Brainwriting: Brainstorming in silence.
Dotmocracy: Evaluate and select ideas democratically.
How-Wow-Now Matrix: How good are our ideas? Evaluation according to feasibility and innovation.
Yes, and...: Jointly pushing ideas forward.
Mindmapping: Drawing the mental map on paper.

Darkhorse prototype: Go for the craziest idea with the highest profit potential.
Mock-Ups: Looks like a program - and feels like one?
Paper prototypes: The basic structure of the interactive application on paper.
Role playing: Experiencing and testing the prototype through the eyes of the user.
Storyboard: A comic strip that visualizes the sequence of interaction with the application.
Wizard of Oz prototype: Test functionalities before they exist.