WHY DESIGN THINKING with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®?

Design Thinking is a method to create a new value – a product, a service or a solution.

It is also a thinking skill to master as part of your competence. Associated with New Product Development, Design Thinking joins human, business, science, aesthetics approaches, making the best of rational-analytical/ intuitive- tacit knowledge interplay.

WHY DESIGN THINKING with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®?

Both techniques can be combined due to both are :

  • Learning through experience
  • Learning and creating is a simultaneous process
  • Disrupting the existing status-quo.
  • Using co-creation – collaborative ways.
  • Making the best of multiple types of intellect
  • Making use of inclusiveness and diversity benefits interplay
  • Using  3D modelling for visualization.
  • Unlocking intuitive using hand-on approach – connecting hand and brain.
  • Looking for the answer in the system and seeking to uncover.
  • Practicing individual creativity as essential basis
  • Meeting uncertainty challenge
  • Developing creative thinking skills
What LSP adds to Design Thinking
  • always use 3D LEGO models – maximizing visual support. Models also bring in  wider use of a metaphor – a whole-story multifaceted understanding with multiple fresh insights
  • the ground rules – play etiquette – secures healthy and safe team dynamics, 100% inclusive teams,  prevents personal agenda behaviors
  • as a play brings in more fun, more positive emotions, more colors to working togethe
  • as a play secures safe experimentation environment,  reducing real-world prototyping cost
  • the  play rules secure rigorous methodology application and step-by-step, progressive skills acquirement