IDEO
IDEO - Collaborative Synthesis
The design team drafts themes from its research, then brings stakeholders or co-designers in to test and sharpen them. You leave with a set of agreed themes and key quotes, ready to turn into insight statements.
Duration
1 hour
Group Size
4-8
Category
IDEO
Difficulty
Easy
The goals are to surface accurate themes, draw on lived expertise, validate findings with the community, and identify novel insights.
A set of themes and key quotes the stakeholders have checked and agreed, ready to turn into insight statements.
Treat participants as experts and advisors. Their lived experience is invaluable for interpreting research findings accurately. Don't be afraid to adjust the questions based on group feedback. Stakeholders often nod along to a draft that looks finished. Show the themes as rough handwritten notes, and ask each person to write one correction before anyone speaks. To run it remotely, put the draft themes on a shared online board with one frame per theme and have people add sticky notes during the video call; split a group of more than six into breakout rooms of three.
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