DLA Design is a creative, thought-provoking and strategic way to look beyond legal issues and uncover business challenges and what drives your business needs.
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Shift your mindset, see problems in a new light, and get better outcomes

Do you want to interact with your business in a different way? Or find more innovative solutions to business problems? Issues can range from encouraging collaboration between teams, to how to get the best output from your supply chain. Often, when we look at a problem, people focus on the surface level and only get a surface-level solution. The solution works, but not as well as it could.

DLA Design is our bespoke methodology based on the principles of design thinking and encourages creativity and curiosity. It’s a human-centered approach to addressing challenges in your organization. 

It uses cognitive, strategic and practical processes to reframe issues, re-engage the mind and challenge assumptions to help you find more effective solutions to your business challenges.

DLA Design encourages everyone to identify opportunities to unlock your businesses potential and, through iteration, turn them into tangible solutions. It helps enhance your team culture through an inclusive dialogue focused on asking questions and challenging assumptions, allowing teams to become more creative in building their solutions. 

Design Thinking uses different voices and perspectives to ideate and problem-solve, allowing us to challenge conventional viewpoints and ensure we put the end-user, client or team at the forefront of our thinking.

Benefits of design thinking

  • Helps you uncover the challenges and needs in your business. 
  • Tackles existing challenges with fresh eyes and a new approach.
  • Encourages questions that go to the heart of challenges and motivations.
  • Provides the tools to broaden thinking around solutions, with a fail-fast approach through experimenting and prototyping.
     

There are various ways we can apply DLA Design in-person or virtually:

  • Design Workshops: An interactive workshop bringing people together to brainstorm and dig deeper into a specific challenge.
  • Away Day: DLA Piper will host an away day, allowing teams to come together in a creative environment. You and your team will challenge underlying assumptions, explore the problem, and suspend judgement to create solutions. 
  • Design Sprint: Design sprints are about identifying the solution to your business challenge. Using the DLA Design methodology, we then help you to create solutions, making sure you're at the center of the building process. 
  • Capability Building: We can deliver training to build design thinking capability in your team and organization. We cover the fundamental phases of the design-thinking framework, share practical applications you can apply day-to-day, and teach you how to reframe the way you approach problems and create solutions.

Design thinking is suitable for everyone and every organization, particularly those who want to:

  • be more creative
  • solve a problem a different way
  • learn new skills, tools and techniques needed for innovation
  • bring their team together by doing something fun and different to create change

Riyal Patel

DLA Design Manager
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