by choij | Jan 18, 2021 | Tools 101, Tutorials
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....
by wp-admin | Nov 30, 2020 | Misc Awesomeness, Tutorials
(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...
by dbward | Nov 2, 2020 | Facilitation Tips, Tools 101, Tutorials
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....
by choij | Oct 12, 2020 | Tools 101, Tutorials
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...
by rgregorio | Jul 13, 2020 | Tools 101, Tutorials
Persona is a tool we use to describe a semi-fictional ideal customer or user of your product or service. The tool lives under “Understand User” category and serves as a vital way to understand or empathize with their perspective, opinion, or point of view. Personas...
by dbward | Jul 6, 2020 | Tutorials
NOTE: This post originally appeared as a LinkedIn article. These days we’re all increasingly aware of significant problems that need to be addressed, whether it’s the pandemic or systematic racism or climate change. Naturally, we’d all like to do our part and lend a...
