Define

IDEO's Activities for Defining the Problem:

dSchool Activities for Defining the Problem:

To guide designers through the process of distilling a variety of needs and insights into a single point of view.* To help students understand and categorize the user's needs.* To help students catalog the path of a user, object or system in order to better understand it and look for design opportunities. To help designers reframe a design challenge into an actionable problem statement To help designers synthesize information gathered during the empathy phase and develop a clear problem statement To help the designer clarify the specifics of what they are designing by developing a metaphor for what their what they will design for their user group.