Recently, it has rid itself of its function merely in product creation, to widen its activities into the innovation process. It is now accepted that any kind of business or organisation can benefit from the methods used by designers. Today, Design Thinking is understood as a way of thinking in multidisciplinary teams, which drives transformation and innovation.
The Mindshake Design Thinking Model Evolution 6², was developed by Katja Tschimmel between 2012 and 2015, the year in which the final version was registered with Creative Commons sa-by. The model is used in the development of projects, workshops, coaching sessions, investigative projects, methodology lessons, among others.
EMERGENCE
identification of an opportunity
EMPATHY
knowing better the context
EXPERIMENTATION
generating ideas, developing concepts
ELABORATION
working on material and semantic solution
EXPOSITION
communicating the new concept and solutions
EXTENSION
implementing, observing, improving, growing
The Mindshake Design Thinking Cards, which look similar to playing cards, consist of 78 cards which form a toolkit and which direct a creative process based on the Evolution 6² model. 36 cards represent the 36 techniques which make up the Evolution 6² model, 36 are photos which are examples of each of the techniques, and the rest explain the use of the card set.
Carefully arranged, or randomly shuffled, as a source of information, and learning technique of DT methods.
Fixed to the wall to help the creative process and the execution of innovation tasks, indicated by the E6 phases.