Introduction

Welcome to the first edition of The Design Studio Method book. Design studios are sketching workshops, where key stakeholders produce sketches individually and critique them with a group. On the surface, design studios appear to be simple to do: sketch and critique.

The single best thing you can do at the start of a project is a design studio.

Yet, most people do not run very effective design studios. Over the past 10 years, I was appalled to see the lack of structure and focus in design studios. Participants would argue, compete for attention, ignore other opinions, and so on. Leaders did not seem to grasp the importance of providing simple rules to help people focus, thinking tools to help people envision different perspectives, ...

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