Consulting Companion
Your guide to AI tools and the Design Thinking method across the Google Design Sprint · by Hortense
Your guide to AI tools and the Design Thinking method across the Google Design Sprint · by Hortense
This tool guides you through the six phases of the Google Design Sprint — Understand, Define, Sketch, Decide, Prototype, Validate — offering concrete AI tools, tips, and exercises for each phase. The companion also answers questions about the underlying Design Thinking method itself — its five modes (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test), divergent and convergent thinking, empathy maps, How Might We questions, and more — so you understand the method behind the sprint, not just the tools.
The structure follows the CORE principle (Competence-oriented Research and Education): every phase has a clear learning outcome linked to a competence type (specialist, methodological, social, or self-competence), a matching exercise that tests that outcome (constructive alignment), and an active, varied teaching format — no long passive explanations, but consistent doing, reflecting, and applying.