Want Better Outcomes? Find Better Problems. // ALD 012 — DT101 E99

This is a Design Thinking 101 episode in the Ask Like a Designer series. Ask Like a Designer helps people explore thinking and solving like a designer. You’ll learn about design thinking, service design, learning design, leading and building high-performing teams, and ways to achieve better outcomes. This episode is based on this article: ALD012 // Want Better Outcomes? Find Better Problems. Read the article and others like it on Fluid Hive’s Ask Like a Designer. What did you think of this episode? Please send your questions, suggestions, and guest ideas to Dawan and the Fluid Hive team. Cheers ~ Dawan Design Thinking 101 Podcast Host President, Fluid Hive Show Highlights [00:53] The human desire to create.[01:15] Rushing solutions leads to poor outcomes.[01:37] Problem spaces and finding the right question to answer.[02:15] The people inside the problem space.[02:38] The context in which the people experience the problem.[03:02] The history of the people and the context reveal changes over time.[03:15] Problem finding.[04:11] Finding and refining problems is not our natural inclination.[04:52] Problem framing.[05:17] How Might We questions.[06:01] Getting comfortable with ambiguity as a designer.[06:47] The eight things you can do with a How Might We question.[08:08] The best solutions come from diverse teams.[08:29] Fluid Hive’s free thinking tool will help you focus your solution energy. The Design Thinking 101 Podcast’s Ask Like a Designer series Protect Your Solutions with Transformation Stories: Part 2 — Telling Well // ALD 011 — DT101 E92 Protect Your Solutions with Transformation Stories: Part 1 — Crafting Well // ALD 010 — DT101 E89 The 30-Minute Solution Matrix: How to Think and Solve Under Pressure // ALD 009 — DT101 E87 Three Little Words for Better (Business) Relationships // ALD 008 — DT101 E79 The Innovation Saboteur’s Handbook // ALD 007 – DT101 E77 Designing Facilitation: A System for Creating and Leading Exceptional Events // ALD 006 — DT101 E73 The Swiss-Army Lives of How-Might-We Questions // ALD 005 — DT 101 E69 Your Good-Life OS: Designing a System for Living Well and Peak Performance // ALD 004 — DT101 E67 There Are No Problems Worth Solving — Only Questions Worth Asking // ALD 003 — DT101 E65 Design, and One Question to Rule Them All // ALD 002 — DT101 E63 Ask Like a Designer — DT101 E61

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Design Thinking 101 is part of how Fluid Hive helps people think and solve like a designer. You'll hear designers' stories, lessons, ideas, resources, and tips. Our guests share insights into delivering change and results with design thinking, service design, behavioral design, user experience design and more, in business, social innovation, education, design, government, healthcare and other fields.