Design Studios, When Done Well, Change Organizations For The Better — UX Articles by UIE

By assembling a multi-disciplinary team to work through the design studio’s structured process, the team quickly generates solid design solutions to complex customer problems. These ideas go beyond what any single designer could’ve come up with themselves.

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When design studios are well-facilitated, we’ve seen big benefits seep into the organization. The exposure to a design process changes how people think about solving problems. They get just as excited about it as the designers do.

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Well-facilitated design studios also focus more on the problem, less on solutions. Stakeholders, product managers, and developers, who were rarely exposed to the workings of a design process, now see how idea generation explores the depths and subtleties of a complex problem.

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Skilled studio leaders guide the participants to see design as an iterative process. The participants no longer think designers produce every brilliant idea on the first try

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Posted on April 30, 2021