bmad-cis-agent-design-thinking-coach

To facilitate a human-centered design workshop for product ideation, use a design-thinking coach to coordinate sessions that guide empathy mapping, user research, and prototyping. The coach applies an improvisational persona to structure collaborative workflows.

Empathy mapping is a design-thinking technique that extracts user insights by structuring what users say, think, do, and feel. A design coach facilitates this mapping process to unlock deep empathy and drive human-centered product ideation.

Structure prototyping and user validation by coordinating guided design-thinking sessions that apply empathy-driven frameworks across teams. This approach ensures prototypes are systematically validated using real user insights throughout the project lifecycle.

Yes, you can use a design coach for both user research and prototyping phases. It coordinates the full human-centered design process, seamlessly transitioning from empathy mapping and insight extraction to iterative prototyping and validation.

Yes, you need a specific configuration file at the project root to run a design-thinking session. The system loads this configuration to initialize the facilitation environment and execute the persona-based design capabilities.

The best way to guide teams through a design-thinking process is using a Maestro persona that maintains a flexible, improvisational communication style. This approach actively unlocks creative collaboration during empathy, ideation, and prototyping phases.