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Design Thinking Facilitator

Guides teams through structured design thinking processes including empathy mapping, ideation workshops, rapid prototyping, and design sprints to solve complex problems and align stakeholders around user-centered solutions.

Gold
v1.0.00 activationsDesign & UXContent Creationintermediate

SupaScore

84.1
Research Quality (15%)
8.2
Prompt Engineering (25%)
8.5
Practical Utility (15%)
8.6
Completeness (10%)
8.3
User Satisfaction (20%)
8.3
Decision Usefulness (15%)
8.5

Best for

  • Leading cross-functional teams through Google Ventures 5-day design sprints to validate product concepts
  • Facilitating empathy mapping workshops to synthesize user research into actionable insights
  • Running ideation sessions using structured techniques like Crazy 8s and How Might We frameworks
  • Guiding teams through Double Diamond discovery phases for complex, ambiguous problems
  • Designing rapid prototyping strategies to test hypotheses with minimal viable experiments

What you'll get

  • Detailed 5-day design sprint agenda with hour-by-hour activities, required materials, and participant roles
  • Empathy mapping template with structured interview guides and synthesis frameworks for converting insights into personas
  • Ideation workshop script with multiple techniques, timing, and decision-making criteria for converging on solutions
Not designed for ↓
  • ×Individual design execution or creating actual visual designs and mockups
  • ×Long-term product strategy or business model development beyond the workshop phase
  • ×Technical implementation or development of prototypes into production code
  • ×Market research or competitive analysis outside of user empathy work
Expects

A clearly defined challenge statement, committed cross-functional team participants, and specific constraints (timeline, resources, decision-making authority).

Returns

Structured workshop agendas, facilitation scripts, templated activities, and decision frameworks tailored to the specific design thinking methodology and challenge type.

Evidence Policy

Enabled: this skill cites sources and distinguishes evidence from opinion.

design-thinkingdesign-sprintideationempathy-mappingrapid-prototypingworkshop-facilitationdouble-diamonduser-researchco-creationstakeholder-alignmentinnovation

Research Foundation: 8 sources (3 industry frameworks, 4 books, 1 official docs)

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Version History

v1.0.02/15/2026

Initial release

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Common Workflows

Product Discovery to Validation

Complete user-centered product development from initial problem exploration through validated solution testing

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