What you’ll do: Apply real design thinking techniques to reimagine the gift-giving experience, in perfect time for the holidays. Participants will be broken into teams, walked through design thinking activities, and present solutions at the end of the event. Winning teams of the friendly competition will be invited to take a tour of mHub, Chicago’s physical product accelerator, with the founder of Casecomps and receive Casecomps swag.

Pricing: Free! Food and material costs are covered by Flatiron Chicago.

Schedule:

• 6pm to 6:30pm: Check-in, network, & grab pizza
• 6:30pm to 8:15pm: Design thinking activities
• 8:15pm to 8:30pm: Presentations & awards

Specific design thinking activities to be used:

• User mapping
• Journey mapping
• How Might We development
• Alter egos / ideation
• Round robin ideation