Product Design Ideation Workshop

What

This template is for digital product teams to help them work with non-designers to visualise requirements and co-create solutions. It provides a simple step-by-step guide to inspiring your stakeholders, guided sketching and voting on concepts to provide focus for design and development.

Who

This template is primarily for product managers and product designers working on B2B platforms. However, the workshop encourages cross-functional collaboration, and so gets colleagues from across the business involved. This workshop requires at least 4 people to run effectively. These people should be empowered to make strategic decisions.

When

A Product Design Ideation Workshop may be held at any stage of a product’s lifecycle to solve stickier design challenges. It is an especially effective tool to use at the inception of completely new areas of functionality.

How

Start inspiring and co-creating concept sketches in just 5 simple steps. The template is super easy to use and offers instructions and suggested timings throughout.

Output

In the workshop you will ideate and visualise solutions to solve specific design problems.

Acknowledgements

Elements of this workshop reference the 6-Up template & Sketch-boarding techniques, first popularised by Adaptive Path. Reference to Crazy8s and concept sketches are widely used in the GV Design Sprint created by Jake Knapp.