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My Best Life is about charities, funders and young people working together to identify the most significant issues facing young people, and to co-design digital solutions.
Remote Design Sprints: The Developer’s Perspective
The first two weeks of My Best Life were altered to deal with the situation around COVID-19. Working out how to guide the participants through a design sprint, with the added challenge of doing so remotely, was a learning curve for us and allowed us to discover some really useful online tools.
Designing the exercises for both the design sprint itself, and also for onboarding young people and youth organisations to using Miro and Zoom was a group effort. Through collaboration, feedback and evaluation we are proud of having produced a series of effective workshops and learning tools.
Moving from… Read more “Remote Design Sprints: The Developer’s Perspective”
Top tips for running remote workshops
The My Best Life team have swiftly learning about running remote workshops. Below are a few top tips on running sessions online.
Top tips for preparing for a remote workshop
Preparation is key: You need clear objectives and a clear process for the work. The layout of your work is crucial. Layout out the software as clearly as possible, so it is as easy for attendees to engage.
Include clear instructions: Include task instructions where possible, so people can refer back to them.
Preparation of the team is key:
Make sure the team have clear log in details and are… Read more “Top tips for running remote workshops”
Introducing the team to Miro
The My Best Life team are running remote design sprints!
So here is what we have been up to…..
Last week, we ran our first design sprint session, using Miro, alongside a video chat using Zoom. Next week the real sprints start! Below I have captured some of my reflections/learning so far:
Remote design sprints can work
We are not the only ones to do this. People have been running remote design sprints for years. Whilst face-to-face is preferable, it can be done online using software like Miro and Mural. My Best Life is testament of this. Keep checkign back… Read more “Introducing the team to Miro”
You are running remote design sprints, are you mad?
Running remote design sprints
My Best Life is going virtual! That’s right… remote meetings, remote design sprints, remote user testing for the next 6 weeks.
In light of Covid-19, we have a contingency plan, My Best Life is going virtual. This is an exciting opportunity and challenge for the team because it is an unfamiliar way of working.
So it all starts tomorrow….
Day 1 of our first sprint will be a day to test the process and our ideas. The team will be running our first sprint day as planned, but with a twist. We will be running it… Read more “You are running remote design sprints, are you mad?”
When facilitation met the Sprint!
On Friday 28th February, I made my way to NPC to attend a pre sprint meeting, looking forward to learning more about this mysterious project my manager had signed me up for. Such as what it would involve, who and most importantly, what my role would be. You see, I’m someone who likes to have structure. AKA knowing what my role is in something so I can plan the hell out of it and be organized. The thought alone fills me with sunshine and rainbows.
Whilst the meeting gave me the who and some information regarding the what and some… Read more “When facilitation met the Sprint!”
Code of conduct
We devised a code of conduct to shape the process of our design sprints so that we were on the same page about working together and the needs of our team. As we will have young people involved along the way, we wanted to make sure we had a good structure for approaching discussions and workshops. Our code of conduct is adaptable to the changes that will evolve during the process. In smaller teams we mapped our inputs on post-it notes and collated them together into this set of guidelines:
We will be mindful of the airspace so that everyone… Read more “Code of conduct”
Weeknotes w/c 31-01-20
What did I get up to? What have I learnt?
This week I’ve been coordinating the location of our design sprints. We are looking for organisations to host us – we are looking for organisations that work with young people and organisations working in tech to get us out of the office and great our creativity flowing! If you can help, find out more here, or email kathryn.dingle@thinknpc.org
What have I been reading?
This week the Health Foundation reached out about about their Young people’s future health inquiry. This research mirrors the findings of My Best Life across the UK!… Read more “Weeknotes w/c 31-01-20”
Support solutions for young people by hosting us!
Support new digital solutions for young people by hosting our design sprints.
We are working to increase young people’s ability to access youth services. To do this, we need your help. We are on the hunt for someone to host our upcoming design sprints, throughout March and April 2020
What is the project?
My Best Life is an open digital project that aims to:
help young people so they are better able to identify and navigate services available to them.
help the charity sector to improve services or access to services for young people.
help the charity sector to make… Read more “Support solutions for young people by hosting us!”