Over the past year as I have been learning about visual design and interaction design, I have worked on side projects for friends and organizations. One of the big pieces missing from classes has been knowledge around process and design thinking. What are good ways to approach a project in the initial stages? How do you discover a user need?

I was glad recently to have the opportunity to take General Assembly’s workshop on Design Thinking, and remove some mystery from the design process! Jim Ratcliffe, who has taught classes at Stanford’s d.school, and Olga Trusova of Blue Fig Labs led the workshop. After a quick recap on the design process, we split into pairs. Time to rapid prototype – on steroids!

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