The World of Design Thinking

Human-centered design for solving wicked problems

What you'll learn:

• You will be able to utilise the potential of Design Thinking in projects for solving wicked problems.
• You understand the most important process steps of Design Thinking like Needfinding, Synthesis, Prototyping and more.
• You will be able to apply selected tools.
• You get ready to manage agile and human-centered design projects.

Design Thinking is a human-centered method and set of principles for solving wicked problems. Nowadays it is being used for product, service and business model innovation. Thereby it takes advantages of new digital technologies, rapid prototyping, field research techniques and creativity methods.

This course will provide you with 17-course modules an overview of the essential steps and techniques. You will learn about the process of Design Thinking, Needfinding, Synthesis, Ideation, Prototyping and Testing.

Each modules uses short videos to explain the teaching content, and we provide further readings and materials as well. The objective is to equip you with the ABC for Design Thinking.