Design Thinking Process: e3  

Discovery Phase-Checklist
Part 1
Due: October 16, 2019

Work with your design thinking team to take notes about each part of the Design Thinking
Process that you complete together. After you feel that you have fully explored each step of
the three parts listed, change the checkbox to a check mark. Return to and revise each part as
needed.

Prepare for Research – Discovery Part 1

❏ Identify/define the topic

Sex trafficking: Illegal transportation of people from one country to another for sexual exploitation

❏ Identify/define the audience (end users) -- Who will benefit from solving our problem
statement? These are the end users:

The audience consists of: young girls, women, children

❏ Share what you think you know about each end user (needs, challenges, background, etc.):

Ways of protection, needs, background, areas most likely to be trafficked

❏ Identify what you don’t know:

What the victims needs are, areas to be most likely trafficked, statistics of surviving victims, how
many documented victims per year.

❏ Make a plan for your research: How will we complete our research over the course of the
next two weeks?:
We will contact someone to interview and ask them questions

❏ Revisit: Identify the end users, experts and other sources of information:

End users:Young girls, women, children.

Experts:

❏ Users (sometimes called the audience) - who can we contact and how?:

Ludy Baclig-Passons
lbaclig-passons@sdyouthservices.org

Human Resources – Career Inquiries:

hr@sdyouthservices.org

Marketing and Development

Mara Morrison
mmorrison@sdyouthservices.org

Volunteer Services
Tiffany Tran
ttran@sdyouthservices.org
 ❏ Build questions to ask the end users (think of as MANY relevant questions to ask as
possible):

How can we make you feel safe

How can we make it easier to spot a sex trafficker
What kind of product would you want us to make for this issue
What are your main concerns with this issue

❏ Build questions to ask the experts:

● What do sex traffickers look for in a victim?

● What are some steps we could take to make sure this won’t happen to us?
● What are the statistics for victims who do survive and who don’t?
● What is the best way to protect yourself?
● How can you tell if someone is being trafficked?
● How can you tell if someone is a sex trafficker?
● What should we do if we are targeted?
● Where can we get more information on this subject?
● How can we help someone who is being trafficked
● How can we make people more aware
● If we could make a product to prevent this, what should we make?

❏ Make a plan for conducting the fieldwork:

We will create interviews and for planning the discovery already, we have ideas of electronic
devices that could alert the police
 ❏ Set the schedule for your work on the discovery phase:

We will work October 16- 22

❏ Determine who will do what by when:

We will all work together to conversate on the interview

Anahi and Ashley interview expert over the phone
Nina interview people at the school

❏ What do you plan to report back?:

I plan to report back the interview responses

❏ When do you plan to report back?:

I reported bac October 21

❏ Did you dig deep enough?:

Maybe I did not dig deep enough, we need to interview more

Checklist Evaluation Rubric
Exemplary Evidence Good evidence Some evidence Little or no evidence
✔ x
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