# How do you design programs for diversity? {% embed url="" %} Video {% endembed %} ## Summary: * Design thinking - Programme Design Thinking * Vision * Understanding * Knowing why you are doing something. * Understand what problem you are solving * What context in which the problem exists. * Define * Who is the target audience? * Ideate * Finding the best idea. * Test * Testing the idea. * Leverage * How can we maximise benefits? * This process helps in becoming a better organizer, and helps to be a better leader then eventually leads to the creation of something meaningful. ## Scribbles: ‌ ### Design Thinking Framework * Brings you through to integrate the needs of the users, understand the possibilities of technology, and the requirements of business need to come to a solution that can meet all of that. * How can we use this, how can we copy this, and apply it to the programs? * Mistakes many people make is to jump straight from ideation straight to execution. * Without a very mindful approach to understanding why we are doing this and what problem we are solving, it is very easy to be pulled in a different direction like I was. ### Vision * Questions to ask … * Why are you doing this? * What are your goals? * What are the desired outcomes? * Vision helps with understanding if we’re solving the right problem. * DevRels can solve a lot of all the problems - not all problems are the right problems to solve. * Having a strong vision sets the foundation, helps set the right direction * Understand what sort of metrics will be important for you. ### Understand * Questions to ask… * What is the problem? * How are people solving the problem now? * Why are the current solutions inadequate? * Not everyone learns how to code to become a software engineer. Some of them just want to learn because it’s fun. * Some of them want to learn to enhance their current role. ### Define * It's between the more abstract research and vision with the very tangible execution strategy. * Define is understanding who our audience is, what are their hopes and dreams and fears, and how can we reach out to them. * Helps in focusing on who exactly I’m helping. ***User Persona*** * User Persona is related to your vision and also what problem you’re solving. ‌ ### IDEATE * Questions to ask * What are all the possible ideas? * Which is the “best” idea? * What idea gives you the shortest feedback loop? * Find out what is the best idea to pursue given the constraints and the resources you have. * Learning is to prioritize ideas before a short feedback loop. * A feedback loop is a time taken to plan, execute and learn from that experience. * So ideas for a short feedback loop helps you learn more faster. * Talk to different people to help me refine the idea. ### Test * Questions to ask.. * What is the best way to test this? * What are the risks involved? * What did you learn?
***Testing Methods*** * Feedback from users * Run a small event * Creating prototype
### Leverage * Leverage is simply to squeeze any ounce of, in fact, other things that you are already doing. * What are some other goals that you can achieve? * What are some of the momentum that you can create from the things that you are already doing?