Design Thinking Fundamentals
An approach focused on product, service and process innovation
The basis of each innovation is to understand who the customer is, what he feels, what he is worried about and what he needs to satisfy his needs.
The first question of a good designer should therefore not be "What do you want?", but rather "How are you doing?".
Free online Design Thinking webinar:
How to boost your creativity in innovation projects
Creativity is not a magic skill, but rather a competence that can be learned. Understand how creativity works, how you can build your creative confidence and how to work with teams to come up with out-of-the-box solutions and ideas.
Date: 18.8. 2020 at 14:00
You can register here.
Design Thinking is an approach focused on product, service and process innovation. It was developed by American designers from Stanford who have begun to apply their design methods far beyond their normal use to innovate products, services, processes, and entire business models. Its basic principles include understanding of customer’s experience, empathy, solution generation, re-application of existing prototypes, and continual feedback receiving followed by adjustments.
Benefits of the Design thinking Online Experience
- Live training with instructors – Experienced instructors will lead you through the workshop, ready to answer questions, give valuable feedback or help with your own project.
- The community – expand your network, enjoy deep-dive into discussion with like-minded professionals seeking to innovate their companies.
- Practice working in virtual teams – you will learn how to use use digital tools to facilitate discussion, ideation and collaboration. Be ready and adapt to the new world.
- Real-life case study – you will work on a real design challenge from your company or real-life case study. By the end of the workshop, you will have made a tested, tangible solution.
- Recorded sessions – get back to any part of the live sessions to review and study. You will not get that in classroom trainings
The course is designed for all people who want to learn creativity-enhancing methods and devote themselves to introducing innovation.
Design Thinking Fundamentals is a two-days, hands-on online course. Each participant will go through all the stages of the innovation cycle.
The first part of the course is about a case study from the real world, through which the basic principles of the Design Thinking method are presented.
Afterwards, the focus will be on a more complex case study from the business environment. Participants work in virtual teams and they regularly exchange the roles of designer and/to customer in order to experience both perspectives.
After completing the course you will:
- understand the basic principles of Design Thinking method;
- be able to apply the various Design Thinking steps to the project work;
- learn how to run innovation workshops and smaller projects properly and efficiently;
- better empathize with the customer and understand his needs;
- know how to create prototypes of products and services and test them.
