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:

More interviews!

Very good.

Team 2 goes over their ideas on the board.

Writing down ideas for the board.

The audience is enraptured.

Design Thinkers have their attentions grabbed and their curiosities piqued.

Coach Marcus sharing his insights and experience in Design Thinking.

Insights are shared.

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

Lots of discussions.

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

Enthusiasm gets us all going!

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

Team 2!

Coach Jon sharing a happy moment with Team 2.

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

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

A nugget of insight.

Interviews can be difficult but enjoyable!

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

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

Team 3 gets to work!

Feel it.

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

Talking over some game plans before interviewing users.

Discussions on how to move forward.

Prototyping is a team project,

Post-its: A subtle symbol of Design Thinking.

Whether sitting or standing, ideation occurs wherever suits you.

Team 2 having a group meeting.

Coach Jon giving a demonstration of Journey Maps.

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

Team 3!

Questions!

Presenting a pitch!

Team 1 gathers together to discuss what they learned.

More questions!

I wonder what they’re looking at?

Team 1!

Caught in the act of a criminal amount of ideas.

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.