Our approach to innovation
At Spring Lake Park Schools, we use a 3D Design process to support innovation. Through three distinct yet overlapping spaces, 3D Design leverages a focus on the needs and wants of those we’re designing for, provides an avenue for generating transformative ideas, and creates a system for putting those ideas into practice.
Discover
In the Discover space, we seek inspiration and insight. We strive to deeply understand our challenge, and gain insight into the customers we’re designing for. These insights help define exactly which problem we’re trying to solve. We remain open and curious as look in, look out and look around in order to see things that may not have been apparent to us before. In the end, we end up with valuable information, and synthesizing these insights helps identify exactly which problem needs solving.
Design
In the Design space, we take everything learned in the Discover space and use it to Ideate and Prototype. We generate as many ideas as possible. The best ideas are turned into prototypes. Prototypes give us a chance to look for gaps or problems in our initial designs. We gather feedback. We remain open to failure, and use it as an opportunity to refine. After working through our top prototypes, we ultimately choose one to put into practice.
Deliver
In the Deliver space, we implement and refine. We put our solutions into practice, learn from the results, and make any adjustments we need. We adhere to a “Do Something” attitude and recognize that we’ll never know if something will work until we try. As designers implement, we pay close attention to what we notice and learn. Is our design effective? Did it solve our problem? Are refinements needed? It’s never too late to make adjustments. 3D Design is ongoing and nonlinear, and might circle back at any point.