Course description
Introduction to Design Thinking
Innovation is the cornerstone of highly successful companies, especially those that continue to be successful over the years and decades. Design thinking practices fuel this continual innovation, as they are the critical links from inspiration to delivery, concept to showroom floor, and start-up to global business. Design thinking is a structured approach to promoting innovation and creative problem-solving. It is not a new approach. It has been around for centuries, as the art, architecture, and inventions of mankind illustrate. By examining the steps to achieving great design and maximum utility of product, design thinking approaches provide a framework in which to develop new solutions to problems and new products to sell.
This highly interactive course is designed to help participants think like designers to generate innovation, and to help teams to produce more innovation and creativity. Since design thinking is based on doing rather than thinking, we participants are challenged to apply the techniques, in the classroom, to create new ideas and solutions to a case study project.
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What you will Learn
At the end of this program, you will be able to:
- Explain the underlying principles and value of using Design Thinking for innovation
- Describe the basic concepts of the Stanford Model for Design Thinking
- Evaluate a set of basic Design Thinking techniques for application to your projects
- Apply tools, techniques, and skills aligned with the 5 stages of the Stanford Model
- Drive innovation through Design Thinking at some level in your work environment
Training Course Content
Foundation Concepts
- Problems and solutions
- The Design Thinking difference
- Design Thinking skills and abilities
- Design Thinking mindset
- Design Thinking frameworks
Stages of Design Thinking
- Problems and solutions
- The Design Thinking difference
- Design Thinking skills and abilities
- Design Thinking mindset
- Design Thinking frameworks
General Practices
- Team formation
- Visualization
- Improvisation
- Personalization
Empathize Practices
- Overview of Empathize techniques
- Observation
- Engagement
- Interviews
Define Practices
- Overview of Define practices
- Unpacking techniques
- Defining the customer techniques
- Integrating the Define experience
Ideate Practices
- Overview of Ideate practices
- Reusable techniques for the Ideate stage
- New Ideate techniques to explore
Prototype & Test Practices
- Overview of Prototype practices
- Examples of prototypes
- Overview of Testing practices
- Forms of testing techniques
Adopt and Adapt Design Thinking
- Overview of Design Thinking implementation
- Design Thinking implementation challenges
- Success in implementing Design Thinking
Summary and Next Steps
- Workshop summary
- Next steps: Personal Action Plans
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