Design Thinking
Hybrid Experience
The evolution of the traditional experience: combining human empathy with AI to understand problems, generate stronger ideas, and validate solutions before committing to them.
People-centered innovation for a fast-paced world.
Most teams don't fail due to a lack of ideas.
They fail because the problem to be solved is not defined.
This workshop was designed to avoid exactly that.
Here, the process doesn't end with "brainstorming." It progresses to transform findings into clearer decisions, more useful prototypes, and solutions better prepared for reality.
Traditional Design Thinking works.
But the world has changed.
Design Thinking remains a powerful methodology. Its ability to center the process on people, open spaces for exploration, and translate ideas into prototypes continues to be relevant.
What has changed is the context in which teams need to apply it.
Today, problems often involve more variables, more constraints, and more pressure to move quickly without sacrificing sound judgment.
Design Thinking Hybrid Experience was created to respond to this reality, by adding an additional layer of AI-assisted analysis at specific moments in the process that allows for broader exploration, detecting less obvious patterns, enriching the synthesis, and subjecting ideas to greater pressure before making decisions.
The evolution of the method
Traditional Design Thinking vs. Hybrid Experience
It retains the people-centered logic and expands it for better results.
| Stage | Traditional Design Thinking | ✦ Hybrid Experience |
|---|---|---|
| Empathy | Human observation and interviews | Human empathy + cognitive expansion with AI |
| Insights | Based on what the team observed | Insights at 3 levels: micro, meso, and macro |
| Ideation | Team Idea Generation | Human Ideation + AI-Powered Idea Expansion and Pressure |
| Validation | User feedback | Human validation + second analytical reading with AI |
| Closure | Prototyping and learning | Prototype + Antifragile Stress Test |
Banco del Pacífico con Universidad Casa Grande / 2025Very practical, dynamic, and strategic, with ideas applicable to daily work.
Good content, excellent session, and engaging activities.
Very interesting, as we learned about innovation topics that we don't commonly use and that will help us streamline our activities.
Hotel Oro Verde con GLIA / 2024Excellent information and work methodology. It supported and guided the generation of innovative solutions.
Practical and useful.
Excellent tools useful for turning ideas into innovation projects.
What I learned is very useful.
A face-to-face, tangible, and deeply collaborative experience
Although this version integrates AI, the workshop does not become a screen-dominated experience.
The work continues to happen in teams, standing up, in front of boards, maps, cards, prototypes, and real conversations.
Deepen findings
Turn observations into more useful insights, with systemic and multi-level context that enriches the team's decisions.
Integrate empathy, analysis, and context
Unify the user's voice, systemic analysis, and team judgment into a single process for stronger decisions.
Formulate opportunities clearly
Learn to articulate opportunity questions that guide ideation and facilitate team prioritization.
Generate broader and more thoughtful ideas
Expand the space of possibilities without losing focus, using AI to explore angles the team wouldn't have considered.
Prototype with intention and validate with focus
Build low-fidelity prototypes ready to move forward and subject the solutions to the Antifragile Stress Test.
Strengthen solutions before presenting them
Detect vulnerabilities, test assumptions, and arrive at a more robust version of the proposal before taking the next step.
Teams that need to rethink how they innovate
Aimed at teams that need to rethink how they discover problems, generate ideas, and validate solutions in an environment of accelerated change.
- Innovation and product development
- Strategy and organizational transformation
- Marketing and customer experience
- Operations and process improvement
- UX/CX Design
- Leadership and middle management
- Agile teachers and facilitators
- Multidisciplinary teams
Hire this workshop
Integrated AI, not improvised
Each instance of using artificial intelligence is accompanied by a structured prompt and a defined role. Participants learn to use AI judiciously, not to depend on it.
Cases created for your industry
Each experience is designed around real and relevant challenges for your industry. Your team works on relevant problems, not generic exercises.
Included materials
Prototyping materials and printed boards designed for the workshop, all available for digital download afterwards.
10/12 hours of in-person workshop
The entire journey — from mindset to Stress Test — in a continuous and cohesive program.
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