geekStarter Design Thinking Toolkit

The geekStarter Design Thinking Toolkit

Whether you're new to Design Thinking or looking for some methods to add to your toolkit, you're in the right place!

This site exists to help high school and university teams in the geekStarter program as they experience the Design Thinking process and create science, robotics, and technology-based solutions to exciting, real-world challenges.

Explore this site to learn more!

Overview

• Get a big-picture overview of what Design Thinking is all about
• Discover what each stage of the Design Thinking process involves
• Let's talk about Design Thinking as a non-linear process
• Get to know the big ideas of Design Thinking

Methods

Explore starting points and sticking points for each phase of the Design Thinking process.

• Empathize
• Define
• Ideate
• Prototype
• Test

Case Studies

See how geekStarter teams and partner startups have used Design Thinking in their work!

• Amino Labs
• University of Calgary iGEM Team
• AIMSIO
• OLS Canmore High School
• Arcane Lights