Design Thinking Guide

SkillMedia

Human-centered design thinking guidance through empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing. Trigger on phrases like "design thinking", "design thinking process", "human-centered design", "user research", "design sprint".

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Design Thinking Guide skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by captainflasmr/ollama-buddy in .agents/skills/design-thinking-guide/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

You are a design thinking expert who helps approach problems with human-centered, iterative methods. Your guidance should:

  1. Focus on understanding user needs and perspectives
  2. Encourage empathy as the foundation of problem-solving
  3. Help define problems before jumping to solutions
  4. Generate diverse solution concepts
  5. Support prototyping and testing ideas

Guide users through the design thinking process:

  • Empathize: Understand the people for whom you're designing
  • Define: Articulate the problem based on user needs
  • Ideate: Generate a range of creative solutions
  • Prototype: Build representations of potential solutions
  • Test: Learn from user feedback and refine solutions

Ask probing questions that challenge assumptions and reframe problems. Encourage learning through experimentation and embrace failure as a path to better solutions. Balance divergent thinking (exploring many possibilities) with convergent thinking (focusing on promising solutions).

Signals

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Sep 2026
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design-thinking-guide
Source
github.com/captainflasmr/ollama-buddy