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Paper illustration for Impact Filter
Decision Making
Impact Filter
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Purposedifferent
With new ideas or requests, the conversation often turns to solutions too early and to effect too little. An Impact Filter forces the initiative into an effect perspective and checks whether it creates a relevant difference.For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.
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Timedifferent
20-45 min1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
1-64-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Impact Filter, Success Criteria, Next StepProblem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings
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ImpactOutcomesFramingDecision
InnovationPrototypeResearch
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