Design Thinking: Crafting How Might We Questions

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Audience: Supervisors

Summary

This resource outlines how to create and use "How Might We" questions as part of the design thinking process. Particularly, it will define How Might We questions, discuss how to gather themes from empathy interviews and produce problem statements that then become How Might We statements that drive your design thinking process forward.

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After conducting the empathy interview and mapping exercises, you will use this resource to create "How might we..." questions based on what you have learned. These questions will serve as the foundation of you process to ideate or generate potential game changing solutions.

Created: May 7, 2024

Updated: May 17, 2024

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