Tools to spark creativity and collaboration: The Design Travel Pack by IDEO
Your World of Creativity
Mark Stinson
5.0 • 45 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Mark shares his review of the Design Kit Travel Pack.
This kit features bite-sized design tools to spark creativity and collaboration by IDEO.org
The exercises have been curated by IDEO.org designers based on their experience in the field. This card deck can be used by anyone tackling big challenges to design more creative, impactful solutions to big challenges.
Get yours at https://www.designkit.org/resources/9
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mark Stenson. Are you ready to push past business as usual? Are you ready for a key to creating something new and inspiring? |
| 0:12.0 | Unlocking your world of creativity |
| 0:17.0 | with Mark Stinson. |
| 0:19.0 | This key to unlocking your creativity |
| 0:22.0 | is the Travel Pack, a design kit from IDEO. |
| 0:26.7 | The pack is a card deck with a set of tools and activities developed by designers all over |
| 0:31.6 | the world. It really helps you get started with methods that can help you get unstuck, boost your empathy, and inject a lot of inspiration into your creative projects. |
| 0:41.0 | I've used this card deck with each card on their own. I've |
| 0:44.5 | combined them. It's a very flexible set of tools. What I like is that each |
| 0:49.0 | activity includes information not only the time required, |
| 0:53.2 | but also the step-by-step instructions. |
| 0:55.7 | How to break down each activity into a few easy steps. |
| 0:59.2 | And of course, with each method, |
| 1:00.9 | there's always a little something extra a little |
| 1:03.2 | suggested variation that you can switch things up. Now the kit has specific |
| 1:08.2 | activities that can really build empathy and of course empathy is the foundation of great design. |
| 1:14.4 | If you understand the needs and aspirations, hopes and challenges of the people you're |
| 1:18.6 | designing for, you're more likely to come up with a solution that will be adopted and embraced. |
| 1:24.0 | But also many people face some obstacles. |
| 1:26.2 | There's complex challenges. |
| 1:28.0 | These require bold solutions, but first it requires getting out of your comfort zone and that's not always easy. |
| 1:34.2 | These exercises help unleash that stretch of your creative thinking because the activities are |
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