Design Thinking in Software and AI Projects: Proving Ideas Through Rapid Prototyping

© Robert Stackowiak and Tracey Kelly 2020

R. Stackowiak, T. KellyDesign Thinking in Software and AI Projectshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6153-8_3

3. Problem Definition

Robert Stackowiak¹  and Tracey Kelly²

(1)

Elgin, IL, USA

(2)

Parker, IN, USA

 

When some organizations begin taking part in a Design Thinking workshop, all participants in the workshop are laser-focused on ideating around a single goal. In other organizations, the participants might come to the workshop having ill-defined or multiple goals in mind. In this chapter, we describe the best practices involved in figuring out a goal for each team to focus upon and scoping out an agreed-upon problem to be solved.

We will traverse the problem space diamond that we introduced in the Double ...