This presentation describes our ongoing research on using design thinking and lego bricks based serious play methodology to enable an experience of Flow among the participants.

1. Design Thinking & Lego Serious
Play for Flow
Arindam Basu & Stefan Sohnchen
Presented for the Teaching Week,
University of Canterbury, 2014
E-mail: arindam.basu@canterbury.ac.nz

2. Purpose: Experience Flow Using
Design Thinking and Lego Serious Play

3. Concept of Design Thinking
Problem or
Opportunity Solution
Image Source: http://goo.gl/Tsrfk7

4. Five Stages of Design Thinking
Image Reference: http://goo.gl/ugAJr6

5. Questions for Design Thinking
(From Jeanne Liedkta, “Designing for Growth”)
Note the Constant Expansion and Contraction of the ideas: also a “hunting”,
“gathering” of ideas cycle
Image Source: Liedtka, J. Designing for Growth Field Book, http://goo.gl/Y6qx3H

6. Lego Serious Play
Serious Play is a Goal Directed Play where participants play with each others to
Achieve a Single Goal and the play or game is co-operative, not competitive!

7. Principle of Flow (From Mihalyi Cziksentmihalyi, “Flow the
psychology of optimal experience”, http://goo.gl/wtMml

8. Can Channeling Experiences Using Tools (Lego bricks)
methods (serious play), and processes (design
thinking) lead students to experience “Flow”?
Lego Bricks Serious Play
Design Thinking
Experience Flow?

9. Challenge and Expertise Were Controlled for By
Inviting External Participants and Students from UC
Students Stakeholder
Participants

10. The Research Process
Trained the Students Using End to End Design
Thinking Workshop
Invited Students to Participate, and Contacted
Community Stakeholders (Nurses, Physician Groups,
Software Vendors …
Developed “How Might We …” Questions
Students and Stakeholder Participants Engaged in 2
hour in an end to end Design Thinking Exercises,
Created Prototypes, And Examined Them

11. Photos from the Workshops

12. Prototypes Created In the Workshops

13. Prototype of a Web Design Exercise

14. Engagement of the Participants

15. Participant Reflections

16. This Project is in Progress
• For More Information or to participate,
contact,
• Arindam Basu
• Email: arindam.basu@canterbury.ac.nz
• Phone: 022 629 0356 or 03 345 8161