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The first two Workshops in Design Thinking are over, and in summary they were a huge success.

Altogether, in two days 30 people of the Gnome community were taught how to apply Design Thinking and came up with six surprising solutions. The teams were comprised of developers as well as usability people and users.

The initial challenge we prepared for the workshop was: How might we simplify the handling of digital information? This question implies how to store, archive and find digital information in a more comfortable way.

The participants went through the entire Design Thinking Process in two and a half hours. The results range from an instant tagging system for cameras, new categories in the interface, a search engine for personal data, to an additional drawing device with shape recognition. In the second workshop the participants came up with a user interface which forces users to actually tag their photos.

Those ideas were prototyped in rough and rapid manner. After proudly-presenting their prototypes, a last feedback session rounded off an exhausting but fun workshop at GUADEC.

Workhop participants

The E-Voyeur - Finding pictures through a drawing device with shape recognition

Prototype of LifeTag - a camera with an instant tagging system before files are uploaded on the computer

In response to the good feedback and a lot of people who couldn’t make it to the first two workshops, we decided to actually give a reprise on Thursday at 15:45 in room Copenhagen. Make sure you sign up at participants list right in the main hall, or drop a mail to cbuss (at) src (dot) gnome (dot) org. Follow the Design Workshop on Twitter to get updates from the team: http://twitter.com/harokkar

We are talking about the Workshop again in the Lightning Talk session on Friday.

Also hear the voices of Stéphane and Ivanka, two of the participants who were blogging about us.