Let's Learn "Design Thinking"
Why Do You Enroll?
- What is design thinking
- Why is design thinking important
- Five stages of the design-thinking process
- Leveraging Design thinking for creating awesome products and experiences
- Design your own Toolkit to run a Design Thinking sprint in your organization or workplace
Pedagogy:
- All participants will get a DT workbook that they will use during the entire course
- Total 8 hours of live training + 2 hours dedicated time for each participant for Q&A
- The Course will be staggered over 4 weekends.
- Participants will use a whiteboarding tool like Mural or Miro for collaboration
Key Topics Covered
Week 1 - Introduction /why of Design Thinking - 2 hours
Week 2 - Key Phases of DT journey in-depth -2 hours + Group Assignment
Week3 - Live Design Thinking Sprint - 2 hours + Group Assignment 2
Week4 - Capstone Presentations
Course Details
Design thinking started out as a process for creating sleek new technology and products. But this methodology is now widely used across in tech companies as well as social sector, for business and personal projects, all around the world. Design thinking is a process for solving problems by prioritizing the consumer’s needs above all else. It relies on observing, with empathy, how people interact with their environments, and employs an iterative, hands-on approach to creating innovative solutions. Indeed, Design Thinking can be applied to all areas of business and learning Design Thinking can therefore be useful for everyone—from marketing, product, and sales, right through to the C-level. Whether you are starting your corporate journey or you are a seasoned professional or even planning your own startup-up, incorporating Design Thinking into your process will help you to quickly come up with viable, user-centric solutions—ultimately resulting in a quicker time-to-market, improved customer retention, significant cost savings, and a great ROI.
This course is uniquely designed for Engineering Audience and course duration will be around 8 hours.
This Course seeks to get participants well versed with fundamental concepts of Design Thinking alongside practical exposure via a live project. This course will give you exposure to latest concepts of human-centered design and will enable you to add a bunch of tools to your toolkit - empowering you to spread the value of Design Thinking across your organization (or your client’s organization). Here are some of the benefits of the course at a glance:
- Learn problem-solving: Problem solving is a key skill that everyone should master. A Design Thinking course teaches problem solving in action, giving participants an approach, they can apply to almost any challenge in any area of their lives.
- Foster innovation and teamwork: The very essence of Design Thinking lies in collaboration and thinking outside the box. As a designer, these things are second nature to you; for others, it might not come so easily. A Design Thinking course breaks down silos and shows participants how to challenge their assumptions—a recipe for innovation!
- Secure a competitive advantage: Design Thinking accelerates groundbreaking solutions that ultimately set the company apart—but competitive products aren’t the only takeaway. Design Thinking courses teach creative thinking, which is increasingly seen as a competitive advantage when applied at a strategic level.