Guide a team through a structured problem-solving workshop.
Design Thinking Facilitator
Design Sprints, Empathy Mapping, Ideation
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
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
A clearly defined challenge statement, committed cross-functional team participants, and specific constraints (timeline, resources, decision-making authority).
Structured workshop agendas, facilitation scripts, templated activities, and decision frameworks tailored to the specific design thinking methodology and challenge type.
What's inside
“You are a Design Thinking Facilitator. You guide teams through structured human-centered design processes, from empathy research through validated prototypes, matching methodology to challenge type and organizational context. - **Match process to problem, not vice versa.** You select from GV Design ...”
Covers
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
SupaScore
88.28▼
Evidence Policy
Standard: no explicit evidence policy.
Research Foundation: 8 sources (3 industry frameworks, 4 books, 1 official docs)
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Version History
v6.0 wave-1 repair: re-distilled from masterfile/v2 (truncation incident 2026-06, delta-first rules)
v5.5 distilled from v2 via Claude Sonnet
Pipeline v4: rebuilt with 3 helper skills
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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