Session 1: — Kickoff & Empathy

• Learning Objectives:

  • Develop an understanding of the Design Thinking Process and how it can be applied in a variety of settings.

  • Learn techniques to understand users’/clients’ motivations and to gather deeper insights (Asking “why?” to dig for meaning, seeking stories, exploring emotions).

  • Practice truly listening, assuming a beginner’s mindset, testing their assumptions, and moving beyond judgement.

Session 3: — Problem Definition

• Learning Objectives:

  • Apply learnings / points of views developed through the Human Centered Design module to reframe the challenge.

  • Identify problem definition methods in order to recognize patterns and triangulate insights.

  • Draft an actionable and compelling problem statement for their particular challenge.

Session 5: — Prototype and Pitch

• Learning Objectives

  • Understand how Design Thinking leads to rapid prototyping of inexpensive solutions that can readily be tested

  • Learn 3 tools used for prototyping and pitching

    • Sketching

    • Business Model Canvas

    • Design Brief

  • Design a Pitch of their solution for business and investors

Session 2: — Human Center Designed Thinking

• Learning Objectives:

  • Understand how Design Thinking addresses Human Needs and builds from Empathy.

  • Learn 3 tools to assist in the identification of needs

    • Stakeholder Mapping

    • Context Mapping

    • Affinity Clustering

  • Apply these tools to their particular challenge

  • Define needs to be  used in their Problem Statement

Session 4: — Ideation

• Learning Objectives

  • Increase knowledge of and skills in the best practices for ideation.

  • Master the interplay of divergent and convergent thinking in developing breakthrough ideas

  • Enhance ability to think laterally

  • Build capacity to translate diversity of talents and perspectives into ideas

Session 6: — Final Presentations