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Design Thinking Tools for Ideation

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 06/15/202210/09/2022Design Thinking 9 min read

The ideation stage is a key point in the design thinking process (Known as Define in the Double Diamond Process). It is where the problem or the challenge is defined. The prototyped solutions may not

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How to Use the Decision Matrix to Make Decisions?

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 05/29/202210/09/2022Decision Matrix 8 min read

Making the right decision is the biggest challenge that designers, managers, and innovators face, especially when there can be more than one possible choice to select from and multiple factors

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How to Apply Paul-Elder Critical Thinking Framework

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 03/17/202210/09/2022Critical Thinking 8 min read

The critical thinking framework provides an efficient method for designers, design students, and researchers to evaluate arguments and ideas through rational reasoning. As a result, we eliminate biases, distractions, and similar factors

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The Double Diamond Design Thinking Process and How to Use it

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 09/02/202110/09/2022Design Process, Design Thinking, Double Diamond 15 min read

We explored the design thinking different frameworks in various articles, and one of these models is the Double Diamond design thinking process which the British Design Council developed. Like other

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How to use Card Sorting to Improve Service Design

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 08/19/202110/09/2022service design 10 min read

Service design follows the same design thinking processes that we highlighted in previous articles about design thinking. However, when it comes to the prototyping stage, there should be a coherent structure

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Starbursting Technique: Evaluating New Ideas

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 03/19/202110/09/2022Starbursting 7 min read

Starbursting is another creative brainstorming tool with a different approach from other brainstorming techniques. When the team inside the organisation brainstorms new ideas using mind mapping and brainstorming tools, the

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PESTLE Analysis and When to Use it

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 04/03/201910/09/2022PESTLE Analysis 4 min read

Finding a creative idea is only the first step in every innovation process, understanding the whole picture about business and forecast both internal and external factors that may affect it

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The Role of Storytelling in the Design Process

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 09/24/201810/09/2022Design Process, storytelling 6 min read

Storytelling is in the heart of our DNA as a human being, it helps us connect events is a holistic experience through time. This unique nature of stories makes it

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The Minimum Viable Product and Why It is Important

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 05/09/201710/09/2022Minimum Viable Product 5 min read

It doesn’t matter how solid is your business plan and market research conducted before pushing the product or service to the savagely competing market, there are always unexpected surprises. The

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Design Thinking Guide: What, Why and How

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 02/01/201710/09/2022Design Thinking 18 min read

For many companies, the design process is still locked inside a small creative room. Designers do not effectively contribute to building the business as the design is seen as a

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How to Use Task Analysis Grid in Service Design

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 10/24/201610/09/2022service design, task analysis grid 6 min read

Designers usually find themselves stuck in the communication with the other stakeholders in the project in order to understand the project challenges that need to be addressed. While they communicate

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Webinar: Prototyping Using Adobe Experience Design

Designorate Team 08/23/201605/29/2022Adobe XD 1 min read

In Designorate, we aim to spread the word for the broader role of the design process inside the enterprise and build a consumer-centered culture inside individual firms. Therefore, we will

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Guide for 3D Printing Technologies

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 06/21/201610/09/20223D Printing Technology 5 min read

3D printing technology is one of the rapidly growing fields that has been involved in different industries including, but is not limited to industrial design, product design, and medical implementations.

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7 Steps to Create a Successful Journey Map

Yumna Matar 04/28/201610/11/2022Journey Map 7 min read

‘Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes’ is a commonly used idiom. For a designer, however, it is an essential step in concept creation, research, and design. In order to guide

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Using the Affinity Diagram to Organize Ideas

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 04/19/201610/09/2022Affinity Diagram 5 min read

The design process depends on collecting a large amount of information about consumers, markets, and competitions. This large amount of data collected during the research phase makes it hard for

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How to Create a Professional Creative Brief

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 04/02/201510/21/2022Creative Brief 7 min read

In a previous article, we explored how top designers such as Tom Bassett, Frank Gehry, David Rockwell and Yves Béhar defined the creative brief. While there are many theories and

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Using Lego Serious Play as a Design Thinking Tool

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 01/23/201505/23/2022Lego Serious Play 5 min read

Lego bricks extend their role as a play toy to contribute to design thinking inside large organizations through the Lego Serious Play tool. Design thinking is an essential process for