This year I had to seriously adapt my annual two-part workshop at NYU Stern to our new virtual world. The first part was easy as it consisted of a presentation overview of UX and innovation techniques, but the second part required some extra ingenuity as it is normally hands-on, providing students a chance to practice deriving insights from user research and developing innovative experiences with those insights.. I turned to InVision’s Freehand to build interactive spaces for the 2nd hands on workshop and it ended up working well. I think that it could be a way to keep offering the workshops at scale going forward. The students were engaged. However it was hard to keep their attention for the full 3 hours as it was the same day that Joe Biden’s election was announced and was also unseasonably warm and everyone wanted to take to the streets.
Virtual Innovation, Design Thinking & Experience Design Workshops
