Course curriculum

  • 1

    Field Prep

    • Thank you and Welcome

    • Grab your backpack

    • Find Your Bearing
  • 2

    Design Thinking Origins and Purpose

    • Design Thinking Origins and Purpose

    • Reflect on Design Thinking Origins and Purpose

    • Design Thinking Inspiration Board
  • 3

    Discover: Problem finding through observation

    • Problem Seekers and Explorers

    • Problem Finding Through Observaion

    • Reflect on Problem Finding

    • About Observation

    • Get Out of Here
  • 4

    Discover: Empathy through interviewing

    • Interviewing for Empathy

    • Empathy and Interviewing

    • About Empathy Interviewing and Mapping

    • Empathy Mapping

    • How did it go with Empathy Mapping?
  • 5

    Define: Moving from Findings to Insights

    • Moving from Findings to Insights

    • Making sense of user research

    • Design Frameworks and Drivers

    • Using Design Frameworks (101)

    • How did it go with using different design methods and frameworks?
  • 6

    Design: Not just design thinking....design doing

    • Compass Points: Bringing Form to Ideas

    • Designing for Impact

    • Creative Thought Primer

    • Ideate

    • Ideas to Experience (Prototyping services or experiences)

    • Prototype to Test (Prototyping Products)

    • Test you idea(s)
  • 7

    Deploy: Making hope visible and good ideas possible

    • Shipping Ideas

    • Storytelling

    • Raising the fidelity of your pitch.

    • Refine to Storytell

    • Storytype your pitch

    • Welcome to the pitch stage.....