Our Human-Centered Design Tool Box
Olio's Human-Centered Design tool box is here to help social impact leaders like designers. The following tactics and tips will keep you focused on the communities you serve and help you identify connections between challenges and solutions. Bookmark this page and come back to it when you’re looking for ways to foster more empathy, collaboration, inclusion, innovation, and iteration into your social impact work.
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I Notice, I wonder
"I Notice, I Wonder" is a versatile observation and inquiry-based activity used to spark curiosity, encourage deeper analysis, and uncover insights.
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Empathy Mapping
Empathy Maps help us step into our audiences’ shoes to better understand their needs, wants, and behaviors. Through this process, we can begin to identify pain points and opportunities.
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Hopes & Fears
Hopes & Fears is a simple yet powerful activity used to create psychological safety, identify potential roadblocks, and align participants toward a shared goal.
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Questions & Assumptions
This activity helps your team identify and prioritize assumptions and questions, helping reduce risks and validate your direction.
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Stakeholder Mapping
This activity helps you identify key stakeholders, their expectations, and the relationships between them. It's useful when exploring new challenges, markets, or offerings.
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Needs Statements
This activity helps your team refocus on the users' needs, desires, and goals. It's particularly useful when you feel the team is drifting away from the user's perspective.
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Co-Creation Council
This activity helps you to establish a Co-Creation Council, a diverse group of stakeholders who will actively participate in and inform your project or initiative.
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Rapid Ideation
This activity uses ideation sprints to help you break you out of conventional thinking and explore innovative solutions to social impact challenges.
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Storyboards
Storyboarding is a visual way to iterate and communicate ideas and scenarios from a user-centric perspective. It's helpful when it's difficult to discuss an idea verbally.
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Feedback Grid
Storyboarding is a visual way to iterate and communicate ideas and scenarios from a user-centric perspective. It's helpful when it's difficult to discuss an idea verbally.
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Experience Roadmap
Creating an experience roadmap helps you define a "minimum delightful experience" by scoping big, visionary ideas into achievable near-term outcomes.
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Entire Tool Box
Download all of the worksheets at once to review and find the methods you’d like to use to bring Human-Centered Design into your work.
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