Design “sprints” are normally 3-5 day activities, enabling relatively long-term thinking and revision. As part of the Ideas Festival at the Royal Children’s Hospital in 2020, we ran a rapid one-hour co-design sprint to help clinical stakeholders understand, brainstorm, and design better ways to achieve optimal procedural care for children, young people, and their families.
Who was involved?
Clinicians and service providers from the Royal Children’s Hospital attended the workshop facilitated by Professor Evonne Miller and Associate Professor Marianella Chamorro-Koc.
What was the process?
Participants were introduced to the design thinking process of Empathy – Define – Ideate – Prototype – Test.
What were the outcomes?
The group created two personas to create empathy, defined the problem they wanted to address, ideated the patient’s journey within the hospital, prototyped preferred solutions, and voted for the winning idea. The design sprint brought together a diverse range of stakeholders from across the hospital to discuss different approaches to managing pain, and generated energy and enthusiasm for developing, testing, and planning implementation for some of the ideas generated.
