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Introducing the updated Problem Framing Canvas!
Learn more about the equity-driven updates to one of our most popular ITK tools. - - - As part of Team Toolkit’s collaboration with the MITRE Social Justice Platform, we embarked on taking a fresh look at our ITK tools with an equity lens. Equity-driven design...
Building Your Cadre of Mentors
(Today's post is by Gabby Raymond, one of our new Team Toolkit Trainees!) Finding a good mentor is like getting a personalized self-help book, one that is full of insightful questions and practical guidance tailored to you. A traditional mentor focuses on guiding your...
Lotus Blossom Tool Tips
The Lotus Blossom ideation tool is one of the most popular in the toolkit, and it's also one of the simplest. This is a great way to help a team quickly come up with a large quantity of high quality ideas, in a format that is structured, binned, and categorized. A...
The Double Diamond
The double diamond is a well-known visual map of the design process starting with the challenge at hand and ending with a final solution. The process pairs divergent thinking (where the participants come up with many ideas) with convergent thinking (narrowing the...
Flip The Script: PersNOna
Creating a negative persona – aka a persNOna – can help you understand your user in new ways.
How To Be Helpful (in 5 Questions)
Want to be helpful? Ask these five questions.