Design Thinking stresses the importance of cultivating empathy for end users, interpreting and framing problems they experience, creative solution generation, and continuous prototyping and testing. Embedded within Design Thinking is the assumption that we must think "outside ourselves." Great design doesn’t happen within the four walls of a studio or office. It happens in the real world.  

In increasingly complex times, innovation and collaboration skills are becoming vital to businesses, and both principles are essential in Design Thinking. This hands-on workshop will lead you through the design thinking process, taught by design thinking professionals that live and breathe in this space. This session will explore how human-centered design can help develop innovative solutions for the complex challenges we face as businesspeople, non-profit leaders, entrepreneurs, and global citizens.  Please note this is an introductory workshop.  

Takeaways 

• Understand the end-to-end process of design thinking through hands-on research and ideation exercises to tackle complex challenges 
• Learn tools and techniques to adopt both divergent and convergent mindsets in your problem-solving process to help you 'think outside the box' before diving into a solution  
• Apply collaborative and inclusive design practices to empower teams, cultivate empathy and build the right solutions that are desirable, viable and feasible  

Preparation 

• This class is taken completely online via Zoom and Slack. 
• We will provide a link to the session 24 hours before & again, on the day of the class, to the email used to purchase a ticket. If you have signed up on behalf of a friend or colleague, please forward along this information. 

NOTE: this class will not be recorded, however, slides will be sent within 7 days following the session.