MethodThroughout all your activities to date, you will have generated and captured lots of ideas for a potential solution. Creating Concepts is about capturing the richness of your ideas in one place, bringing them together in a ‘Concept Capture...
MethodThe first step in prototyping is to identify the biggest questions or most important assumptions that you have about how users will interact with your solution and whether it addresses a real need and has recognised value. These might be...
MethodBefore you create anything, you can carry out a simple and easy test regarding your concept. That is, to present your ideas and discuss them with intended users. Discussing the different aspects with you users to see what resonates with them,...
MethodThe Lean Experiment tool helps you with basic guidance on what you need to think through in order to test a hypothesis with a prototype. Once you have prioritised your research questions, you then need to describe how these will be tested and...
MethodFor any service elements of your concept, you can prototype and test particular touchpoints where a user will interact with the service. Identifying the touchpoint you want to test, how you are going to test it, and with who is critical. The...
MethodThe Wizard of Oz method is a way to create and test interactive systems using human operators when computers or mobile phones would normally play that role in a fully-developed solution. The approach is used a lot for digital products and...
References
Challenge ResponseHow to use the REACH Tool
Below we present the seven steps of the tool and offer a short discussion of each in the context of humanitarian innovation.
Clarify the ethical challenge
When confronted with an ethically challenging situation in...
ForesightingHow to use the Foresighting Tool
You can draw on the Foresighting Tool at multiple points throughout the innovation journey, but it is most effective after a problem and potential solution have been identified, and as innovation teams are...
Values ClarificationHow to use the Values Clarification Tool
The intent of a value-sensitive humanitarian innovation approach is to support “humanitarian innovators and their partners to flag, track, and account for ethical considerations associated with an ICT...