Enabling innovation in design teams
I designed and led a workshop to bridge a learning gap amongst a team of designers to increase their knowledge and understand of government digital standards user centred design principles with a focus on content design.
The goal was:
to increase collaboration and innovation ways of thinking between a team of different product designers.
to transform how we work together to solve design problems.
bridge the knowledge gap between user centred design and content design.
Things I thought about
Before delivering this training session, I thought about the following:
Who the participants were and what they wanted to understand and learn.
How to introduce familiar and unfamiliar design principles.
Interactive synchronous elements and learning materials to increase engagement, interest and consolidation of new information.
I adopted a blended theory with immediate application so designers moved from knowing to doing. I used scenario based learning to show relevance and friction points
Impact
The impact of the training session and the variety of learning materials were resources that reduced cognitive load. 100% of retention where participants could correctly apply design principles to follow up tasks.
This also enabled multiple designers with different specialisms to form a permanent task force and work collaboratively to iterate design concepts and ideas on future projects.