Let's look at the key steps to facilitate a generative research workshop:

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A designer as a facilitator
A semantic shift is required, users are now the experts, they know it. Designers can no longer pretend to know the solutions in advance. A good designer first tries to make sure he understands the problem well before thinking about designing solutions. Understanding is achieved with the right methodology, applied to the right users.


The first step in any research is to take it seriously. You must put yourself in a state of mind of curiosity and alertness. You must have the ability to ask open-ended questions and not judge the responses and ideas of the participants.
Formulate a hypothesis about the problem you are trying to explore and solve. At this point armenia phone number data we don't know exactly what causes our problem, we want to find out what is happening. Thinking about solutions only hinders this discovery process.
Based on your hypothesis, plan the activities that your participants will do during the workshop. Assign times to each activity and define the results you hope to achieve. There is no master formula, the only factor to take into account is that you use objects to help participants express their ideas. They can be plastic figures, post-its, geometric shapes, etc. Take advantage of the fact that people are naturally creative and, in general, are given to telling their experiences when they have objects to represent what they find difficult to express with simple words. Give it a try! It's like playing with toys again.