Start generating ideas. You’ve grown to understand your families and needs in the Empathise stage, and you’ve analysed and synthesised your observations in the Define stage, and ended up with a human-centered problem statement (POV). Now you should start to “think outside the box”, look for alternative ways to view the problem and identify innovative solutions to the problem statement you’ve created. You can do this by brainstorming many different ideas on paper and sharing them.

I usually get students to draw pictures of their ideas and I am looking for quantity of ideas not quality! Generate a range of crazy, creative ideas.

#1: We each created, 4 different routines that met the problem statement: Our family needs to create a flexible self directed routine with different learning activities that need to be completed by the end of the day.

(10min)

15 year example of 4 different routines. ( I gave her 10 min for all her ideas)

We gathered feedback from each member of the family. They each asked specific questions. Some of them looked like:

• Did you meet all the family members needs in your routine?
• Is the routine self-directed?
• Is the routine flexible?
• Did it meet the constraints (limitations) from the priority list?
• When is the end of the day for your routine?

(10min)

Using the feedback from the family members. Pick your final routine and do a draft version of it! (10min)

We gathered feedback from one of family member. Ask some specific questions. Some of them looked like:

• How will you display this routine?
• Did you think of your teacher and what they want you to do?
• How is the routine self-directed?
• Why is the routine flexible?
• Did it meet the constraints (limitations) from the priority list?
• Why did you pick the specific time to end your day?

(10min)