By Ben Chong

On July 14, we had one of our best experiences in Positive X’s One-Day Design Thinking Workshops. With intense activities and rapid design challenges, we graduated 21 fully-fledged Design Thinkers!

The July cohort has been our largest group so far in all our workshops. Our coaches saw individuals from all backgrounds transform into powerful innovators as they learned the process of Design Thinking.

Here are some of our favourite moments:

In our sharing session, Design Thinkers talk about what grabbed their attention the most.

Team 1!

Insights are shared.

The audience is enraptured.

Coach Marcus sharing his insights and experience in Design Thinking.

Our Playbooks help Design Thinkers keep track of what they’re doing, and is full of useful info.

Interviews can be difficult but enjoyable!

Questions!

Presenting a pitch!

Whether sitting or standing, ideation occurs wherever suits you.

More interviews!

Prototyping is a team project,

Team 3 gets to work!

Design Thinkers have their attentions grabbed and their curiosities piqued.

Team 1 gathers together to discuss what they learned.

Team 2!

Team 2 gathers at to sort through all their information on the board.

Feel it.

Talking over some game plans before interviewing users.

Post-its: A subtle symbol of Design Thinking.

Design Thinkers warm up to each other over the course of a day, and become friends just as quickly!

Team 2 goes over their ideas on the board.

Caught in the act of a criminal amount of ideas.

Writing down ideas for the board.

Discussions on how to move forward.

Coach Jon giving a demonstration of Journey Maps.

The teams cross-examine each other as they test out their prototypes.

Ideas overflow in the team as they get into the zone.

Public interviews at Publika as we engage in the Empathise step.

Team 3!

Lots of discussions.

Coach Jon sharing a happy moment with Team 2.

Team 3 gathers together to go over their prototype, a moving roof!

Enthusiasm gets us all going!

More questions!

A nugget of insight.

Our July Cohort was the largest group to have ever graduated together. Congratulations!

Team 2 having a group meeting.

I wonder what they’re looking at?

Very good.

Want to know more about Design Thinking in Malaysia? Positive X is a people development firm that equips talents with design, innovation, and entrepreneurial thinking and skills. You can know more about us at http://www.positivex.asia.

This article was written by Ben Chong, our resident Design Thinking enthusiast and creative.

Edited by Ben Chong.