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The first collaborative collection of tools and processes to design better businesses!
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Mind Map

Submitted by • about 14 days ago

Mind Map is a tool used to visualise thoughts and ideas generated and make connections between them. It allows presenting ideas in a visual and non-linear way and grouping them into clusters. A Mind Map begins with and initial ideas ...

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Banned!

Submitted by • March 15, 2012

Banned! is about imagining that something that now exists all of a sudden disappear from the world and imagining the impact that this will have on the surrounding world. This methodology allow to rethink completely everything surrounding what has been banned ...

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Blueprint Modelling

Submitted by • March 15, 2012

Blueprint Modelling allows to articulate a vision and understand how a business will operate. It allows to display all the activities that will make the business run by dividing them 3 main phases: - client engagement phase (it's the phase in ...

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Priority Board

Submitted by • March 10, 2012

The Priority Board aim at understanding how people value products/services/functionalities. In order to help participants prioritise their needs but also to open new path for innovation, it is really important to firstly make them aware of all the oportunities out there using ...

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The Market Day E-books

Submitted by • March 8, 2012

The Market Day E-books are tools created by Sarah Thelwall to support a one-day workshop she run to help Creative Industries apply a DIY approach to marketing planning and delivery. They allow to focus on the key elements of a ...

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User-generated Personas

Submitted by • March 7, 2012

User-generated personas are hypothetical archetypes of potential customers generated by some real customers that represent a user segment. They are the outcome of their personal experience as consumers and allow them to say what they think without having to put ...

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High-fidelity Prototyping

Submitted by • March 6, 2012

High-fidelity prototype is a tool for testing a product or service by observing how user interact with the service. It should simulate how the real product or service. The more accurate is the prototype the more accurate are the test ...

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Google Analytics

Submitted by • January 19, 2012

If you are developing a web-based service, Google Analytics is a free and really useful tool to analyse your traffic, your visitors and understand which content your customers are more interested in. Google Analytics allows to visualise your number of vistor ...

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Rough Prototyping

Submitted by • January 12, 2012

Rough Prototypes are low-fidelity prototypes such as sketches and mock-ups that help envisioning, communicating and testing a design idea. In software design they are usually made with paper (paper prototyping) but it is often quite useful to have access to ...

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Money Meaning

Submitted by • January 9, 2012

This exercise helps entrepreneurs understand what value may mean to them. As for how the graph is designed, it won't be possible to choose 'max money and max meaning', and entrepreneurs will be forced in choosing among the two. This exercise can be ...

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Entrepreneur Self-Portrait

Submitted by • December 13, 2011

This exercise allows entrepreneurs to reflect on themselves and understand why they want to be 'entrepreneurs'. The tool will also help them communicating who they are to others and will help them make decision in the future when their business will ...

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Lottery

Submitted by • December 10, 2011

A really powerful way to understand who you are is to imagine how your future would be if, all of a sudden, you would receive a big amount of money. Marty Neumeir call this exercise "The Rich Uncle" exercise. In his ...

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Role Play

Submitted by • December 9, 2011

Role play is a really powerful way to understand how a product or service works. It require both users and designers to play an hypotetical experience. This methodology can be used with an existing product and service or to imagine how ...

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Business Modelling

Submitted by • December 8, 2011

Business Modelling allows to describe how a business will work: foundations, offering, customers and finances. It provide a simple and quick overview of the business and it can be use to reinforce the Executive Summary of a Business Plan. Tool To facilitate ...

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Cultural Probes

Submitted by • December 2, 2011

Cultural Probes are tools developed in 1999 by Bill Gaver, Tony Dunne and Elena Pacenti, that allows to collect information about consumers and their environment that can't be found with observation and interviews. They are packs of tools such as ...

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Comics

Submitted by • January 3, 2012

Comics are really powerful ways to communicate information to others and telling stories. They are characterised by the use of pictures and words that, when combined, have a really strong communication power. Comics are mainly used in storytelling, storyboards but works ...

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User-generated Personas

Submitted by • March 7, 2012

User-generated personas are hypothetical archetypes of potential customers generated by some real customers that represent a user segment. They are the outcome of their personal experience as consumers and allow them to say what they think without having to put ...

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Now and New Now

Submitted by • December 10, 2011

Now and New Now is a simplified version of the Blueprint Modelling  exercise and guide to develop a Business Plan. The main difference between this 2 approaches is that Now and New Now use the entrepreneur skills as a starting ...

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Story Cubes

Submitted by • December 9, 2011

Story cubes are three-dimensional tools that allow illustrating ideas, problems or actions and exploring relationships and narrative by mixing and remixing them to create new meanings. The can be used by an individual to analyse a specific thing, or can be ...

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Observation

Submitted by • December 7, 2011

Observation is about observing users behaviours inside the context we want to analyse. It provides more accurate results than asking users about their behaviours when they are away from the context of their activities. There are different techniques that can ...

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The difference between Business and Entrepreneurship…

It can be quite difficult to clearly explain the difference between a business and an entrepreneurial attitude, but, as this is something I have been reflecting on a lot recently, I would like to share my draft outcome with you. In my opinion what distinguishes a Business from an Entrepreneur attitude is a person mental [...]

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Here we are!

Yay! Business Design Tools platform is ready for everyone to contribute! Are you a Designer? This space is designed for you to help Businesses understand the value of what we do by sharing our tools and successful stories! Are you a Business expert? This space is designed for you to help Designers understand the challenges [...]

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What is Business Design Tools

Business Design Tools is an open collaboration platform that aims at helping start-up and small businesses to design unique services that are feasible and viable for the businesses and desirable and usable for their customers.

Everyone that has experience with the tools available is welcome to vote and share their experiences using each tool. Also, if you use any tool that is not published on the website yet, please share it with us so that everyone can benefit from it.

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