What are some micro-trainings we can do throughout Service Design education?
In short: Pushing Service Design learners to explain what they are saying with live-sketching and pushing them at the end of each conversation to give back the three most important points helps develop visualisation and synthesis skills.
Synthesis
A few weeks ago I started to challenge the learners that I interact with to give me the three key insights of our conversation on the spot. I started to do this to help them slowly develop their synthesis muscle (as I did back in the days myself).
Live sketching
Now I'm thinking about which other skills I can easily integrate in such micro- moments.
One that I'll try to implement is to ask learners to live-sketch what they or I share. This is something that I usually do. But it would be much a stronger learning experience it I push the learners to do the live sketching themselves.
Why it matters
Like developping a muscle it's the repetition that really makes the skill grow.
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