Product Design's Ability: Design Facilitation

User experience is not a siloed practice. In order to collect knowledge, generate new ideas, and design solutions, it’s best to bring people together. But even when people come together with the best intentions, ideas and outputs don’t just simply happen...we must facilitate design activities and workshops to make it happen.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to a squad when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can employ this ability with only a small amount of guidance

• You can participate effectively in design workshops, and shadow experienced facilitators.
• You can create materials for the design activities.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to a squad when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can employ this ability, with no assistance as well as being a trusted active or passive mentor to others

• You can execute existing design workshop activities well, leading to desired goals of the time.
• You're able to manage the energy, time, and needs of the business effectively in the session.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to multiple squads when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can employ this ability as well as being considered an expert within this discipline

• You design custom workshop activities when necessary to achieve desired goals.
• You proactively learn new techniques that can make our practice more effective or efficient.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to a squad when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can not only employ this ability but where they set the tone for this at the company level

• You create the strategy of entire sessions (whether several hours or several days).
• You're viewed as a company leader in leading large-scale creative collaboration.
• Your activities and workshops produce superior business results, moving the product forward with stakeholders in alignment.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to not just internal teams but the community/industry in general when wielding this ability, and they are recognized by the community/industry as an expert

• You're viewed as a community leader in collaborating across disciplines and knowledge domains.
• Your created activities are adopted by others throughout the company and community as a way to conduct business.
• Consistent usage of collaborative workshops and activities has impacted the culture of the organization in a positive way.