bmad-cis-design-thinking

Start the design thinking workflow and describe your design challenge, users, and constraints. The facilitator guides you through empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing steps, saving a structured session document after each phase.

The session generates a markdown document from a template containing the challenge statement, empathy map, POV statement, How Might We questions, generated ideas, prototype description, testing plan, and next-step action items.

Yes, customization works through TOML override files at team and user level. You can append activation steps, add persistent facts loaded as context, and define an on_complete action executed after the final planning step.

The facilitator reads a design methods CSV catalog and selects three to five methods per phase based on your context, such as user access, time constraints, and product type, then recommends the best fit.

Skip the full five-phase cycle when the problem is already well-defined and validated, or when you only need quick iteration on an existing solution. The process is designed for open-ended challenges requiring deep user understanding.