1/7 When I introduce #ThinkingStyles to a team, it's hard for them to understand because most of us are not used to thinking from people's cognitive perspective. We are used to thinking about groups or customers in terms of their demographics or their roles.

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2. Instead of designing for a "personality" representing a whole person, you can design for #thinkingstyles people use in the specific context of their purpose.

🧵1/7 Example of the variety of #ThinkingStyles ... related to "deciding on a route to that will get you where you want to go"
- Can be done socially, by asking someone.
- Can be done manually, by tracing through each possibility to understand the pros/cons.

🧵1/4 #Storytelling is how you can communicate concepts within your org. To tell a story, you need #characters and a #plot. The characters represent #thinkingstyles (from your research). The plot represents the characters' approach to and intention/purpose they have.

#ThinkingStyles represent the variety of people's approaches to their goal, intention, or purpose. An org that wants to grow will support more of this variety.

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2/2 👉 A second story can have two characters with the same demographics but represent two thinking styles.
👉 A third story can have two characters with different demographics representing one thinking style.

#ProductStrategy #StrategicResearch #ServiceDesign #ThinkingStyles #CognitiveBias

Loved listening to this! And I shall now switch to saying #thinkingstyles vs behavioral audience segments. Rolls off the tongue much more smoothly ☺️

Has your team started using #ThinkingStyles instead of #personas?

They are interior cognition archetypes (or mindsets) that help you create a variety of solutions for people, including those that your org has been ignoring.

🧭Mental Model Skylines Part 2 - The mental model skyline starts to emerge midway through this second step, where the patterns fit together across concepts.

Finding #ThinkingStyles is the course I'm working on now. This update is coming in a few months, so this sale allows you to prepare yourself! 🙌

If you find yourself ruminating about the past or thinking catastrophically about the future then now is the time to learn how to interrupt your unhelpful thinking styles
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Our judgement of other people's approaches goes into the code that we write. Let's make ourselves aware of these other approaches by understanding #ThinkingStyles, and support and respect a broader variety of approaches.

Got friction with another person at work?

Possibly it's because you are both judging each other's style of getting the task done.

Understanding #ThinkingStyles helps you cease judging the other.

1/7 #ThinkingStyles work in two ways:

👉 In conjunction with a mental model skyline: You'll design evaluative studies by a tower/set of towers, and recruit by thinking style, and get scores about how much your solution helps that thinking style.

2/5 People's cognition (across demographics) is important to crafting products, services, and platforms. Are we supporting a broader variety of #ThinkingStyles and approaches?