How to Knock
Hello to our first KNOTIE tool!
Knocking on doors is the essential first step of Design Thinking. It is a diverging stage of the process where we want to find out as much as we can about one topic and to suspend our assumptions. This stage should take the longest time and being part of the iterative design thinking process, we always want to come back to knocking from time to time to see if we have missed out any important clues.
Knocking could be an engaging process and not like a usual awkward interview. Here, we are introducing this very first fun game that brings all participants and team members to the topic in 10min. Let’s bring everyone onboard!
Knock on our brains for interconnections! Find out the related terms/objects/anything about your topic.
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Hashtag Game
Objectives
To know how your audience defines & understands a specific topic.
To align understanding towards a specific topic within a group / with your audience.
What will you get?
List of # hashtags related to your topic.
Benefits from this tool
To refresh or give a brief understanding of the discussion or study topics.
To list out keywords, elements, and things related to the topics
To consolidate the related words into categories and warm up on the relevant themes under the topic.
If you are with a big group in this exercise, you could discover the similarities and differences within your team.
How could you use it?
1) Imagine you are going to post this photo/topic on instagram
2) Prepare a blank paper with # on it
3) Get your timer ready (within 3-5 minutes)
4) Write as many as you can!
5) Time’s up! Check what you have gotten!
What’s next?
You could categorise the keywords/ vote for the most important words / spot the similarities & differences between keywords with your team-mate.
Examples:
Example 01
How you understand the meaning/ideas of "New Life"
Observe how participants understand the target topic and warm them up by a diverging step.
What we did/prepared?
A paper with blanks to guide participants to finish the task.
More examples coming.