bmad-cis-design-thinking

A design thinking session moves user insights through structured phases from empathize to test, converting them into actionable artifacts like design-challenge statements and prototypes. It uses templates and prompts to ensure repeatable, high-quality documentation across product design challenges.

Design thinking sessions should produce design-challenge statements, POVs, how-might-we questions, and evaluation criteria. This skill generates these ready-to-use artifacts to ensure structured input gathering translates directly into tangible prototypes and product decisions.

Yes, you can run a structured workflow for a new product feature by initiating a session with a defined design challenge. The workflow then guides you through documenting insights, defining problems, ideating, prototyping, and planning next steps with repeatable outcomes.

The best way to convert user empathy into rapid prototypes is using an empathy-driven design framework that emphasizes structured input gathering. This skill applies a guided process to transform raw insights into validated concepts and tangible prototypes for product decisions.

No specific tools or dependencies are required to run these design thinking sessions. The skill operates independently, providing the structured workflow, templates, and prompts needed to facilitate the process and generate documentation without external setup.

Design teams often lack a repeatable process because they miss a guided framework to run sessions consistently. This skill solves that by providing structured templates and prompts that ensure every session produces high-quality documentation and tangible artifacts from user empathy.