Design Thinking for Beginners: Develop Innovative Ideas (Udemy)

This is a one-hour video course on Udemy that introduces the principles of design thinking and how they may be applied in businesses and organizations. It teaches the five-step human-centered problem-solving process. This course begins with an introduction to design thinking, followed by an in-depth look at each step of the design process, and concludes with an explanation of storytelling and why storytelling is useful in attempting to implement design thinking in organizational settings. It focuses on the following topics:

• Why design thinking matters
• How to empathize with your users through interviews and observations
• Synthesis Frameworks to help define your core problem by synthesizing and analyzing information gathered
• Tips and Tricks to ideate solutions to your problem by brainstorming
• Prototyping ideas rapidly to identify the best possible solution for your problem
• Testing a Hypothesis with users to gather feedback on proposed solution
• Using storytelling to pitch design thinking to your team or organization

Students complete a real-world design project as part of the course. There are numerous activities that accompany each lecture that allow students to apply each phase of the process to an example design challenge. Students receive access to a workbook that contains all of the templates they'll need to finish the design assignment. Laura Pickel is the creator of this course. For several years, she has used and taught design thinking at firms such as SAP, IDEO U, Stanford Design School, and others.

Key Highlights

• Understand how to apply the 5-step design thinking process to a design challenge in your organization
• Learn to empathize with your user through interviews and observations, in order to take a human-centered approach to a problem
• Learn through practical application by solving a design challenge of your choice
• Suitable for professionals from a wide range of roles like business managers, HR employees, product managers, designers who are looking to use design thinking to discover and implement best solution to problems
• Great fit for those who want a refresher in the core concepts of design thinking

Duration : 1 hour on-demand video

Udemy Rating : 4.3/5.0

Enroll here: udemy.com/course/design-thinking-for-beginners