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Design Thinking 2.0 Training

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Design Thinking 2.0 Training

Course Description: Design Thinking, a close cousin of Human-Centered Design, serves to uncover innovative solutions that address customer pain points with precision and empathy. The method has some limits. This Design Thinking Training provides a modified framework for discovering new ideas, harnessing empathy correctly, and rapidly sketching to ideate transformative solutions. 

Course Highlights:

  1. Embracing Design Thinking 2.0: Review the Design Thinking Process and its connection with Human-Centered Design. Learn the pitfalls of Design Thinking. Explore how research-backed empathy can drive problem framing and ideation.

  2. Design Thinking team: Learn who to recruit for an effective Design Thinking team and gain strategies and tools to guide the team effecdtively.
  3. Discovering customer pain points: Master the art of identifying customer pain points through empathy-driven methodologies. Learn how to uncover underlying needs and aspirations.

  4. Rapid ideation: Learn rapid sketching and ideation, moving from empathy to innovative solutions. Create concepts that address identified pain points.

  5. Prioritizing interface decisions: Develop a systematic approach to prioritize and evaluate design solutions. Understand how to select and refine ideas that hold the most potential.

  6. Ethnographic Field Studies: Unlike typical Design Thinking workshops, dive into the authentic world of empathy through Ethnographic Field Studies. Gain insights into the lives and experiences of users to drive innovation.

  7. Critical Mindsets and Skillsets: Cultivate the mindsets and skillsets essential for Design Thinkers. Explore the mindset shifts required to embrace Design Thinking 2.0 and the practical skills that facilitate its application.

Course Format: The course combines hands-on activities, group discussions, and user research techniques. Participants will engage in practical exercises that simulate real-world scenarios. In short we’ll do Design Thinking!

Agenda
  1. Updating Design Thinking: unpacking “2.0” tools and techniques.
  2. Defining “Right Problem”: Right Features to MDP or minimum desirable product.
  3. Critical mindsets and skillsets for Design Thinkers – systems thinking, inclusion, and more…
  4. Creating 3D profiles of your audience/ needs/ solution map.
  5. Facilitating your Design Thinking workshop for Agile teams.
  6. Q & A
Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Do Agile Design Thinking: Utilize a Design Thinking process to foster innovation with enhanced speed and efficiency.
  2. Improve stakeholder collaboration: Bridge the gap between designers and developers by leveraging Design Thinking mindsets and skillsets to facilitate effective communication.
  3. Amplify innovation with diverse audiences: Enhance innovation and creativity across your organization, even among non-designer audiences.
  4. Enhancing design decision-making: Improve design decision-making through the systematic application of approaches and tools for problem-solving.

Essential Details
  • 4 hours
  • Online (or in-person).
  • Customized with your interfaces/ challenges.
  • Up to 99 people (online) or 25 in-person.
Who Should Take This Course

This course is for any internal stakeholder who needs to innovate and develop creative solutions to complex customer problems.

  • UX teams
  • Business Leaders
  • Product Managers
  • Agile teams
  • Business analysts

Prerequisite

None

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About Your Trainer

Frank Spillers

CEO and Master UX Trainer @ Experience Dynamics

Frank Spillers is the founder of Experience Dynamics, a leading UX consulting firm with Fortune 500 clients around the world. For 25 years, Frank has been an internationally respected speaker, author, UX Leader, and Inclusive Design educator. He is a world expert in improving the design and user experience of products, experiences, and services. He leads consulting projects at Experience Dynamics as well as teaching monthly at his UX Inner Circle and with the Interaction Design Foundation, the largest design school. 

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