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The What-How-Why method is a tool that you can use while observing people to help you dive into your observations and derive deeper levels of understanding. With the What-How-Why method, you start with concrete observations — the What — and from there move to higher levels of abstraction — asking How — and then finally you arrive at the Why—i.e., the emotional drivers behind people’s behaviours. This method is extremely useful for you to analyse images that you might have taken while observing your users—learn more about it by downloading this template.

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Bundle of 41 Design Thinking templates
  1. 5 Whys Method
  2. 6 Thinking Hats
  3. Affinity Diagrams
  4. Analogies
  5. Aristotle's 7 Elements of Good Storytelling
  6. Bingo Selection
  7. Braindump
  8. Brainstorm - 8 Rules
  9. Brainwalk
  10. Brainwrite
  11. Building Empathy with Analogies
  12. Challenge Assumptions
  13. How to Conduct an Interview with Empathy
  14. Create Some Space
  15. Empathy Map
  16. Engaging Personas
  17. Feedback Capture Grid
  18. Four Categories Method
  19. How Might We Questions
  20. I Like, I Wish, What If
  21. Idea Selection Criteria
  22. Journey Map
  23. Now Wow How Matrix
  24. Point of View - Problem Statement
  25. Dot Voting
  26. Prototyping for Empathy
  27. Prototyping to Decide
  28. Prototyping to Test
  29. SCAMPER
  30. Sharing Inspiring Stories
  31. Gathering Feedback on Your Prototypes
  32. Space Saturate and Group
  33. Story Share-and-Capture
  34. What-How-Why Method
  35. Worst Possible Idea
  36. Customer Journey Map
  37. Steps in a Thematic Analysis
  38. Cultural Probe
  39. Stakeholder Map
  40. How to Carry Out a Bodystorming Session
  41. How to Carry Out User Observations

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