Design work requires a team, and the more diverse, the better. This does mean diverse in terms of demographics, but also in terms of life and professional experiences, roles within an organization, and levels of seniority. It also refers to roles within an ecosystem, like audience members, donors and other stakeholders, and community leaders. Design requires seeing problems and ideas from a variety of angles, and prioritizing a more democratized process of input and evaluation.
When to use!
Before any design work takes place
Notes
Any project should always have a core team of 4-5 people who are involved with everything, and then several collaborators who are within the organization and/or ecosystem. Two or three makes it difficult to generate divergent ideas and more than five makes it difficult to converge into actionable solutions.