Design Thinking 101 | Seattle

About this workshop

Learn the ins and outs of design thinking the informative, experiential, and applicable way. Through this workshop, you'll be able to collaborate within teams to apply methods & tools to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test using a real-world challenge.

What to expect: - An end-to-end design thinking application process with lecture/training from the instructor in between each step and team-based working sessions. - Working in teams to create physical prototypes of their solution ideas and gain experience taking a customer- and human-centered approach to solving problems.

Takeaways

• Introduce participants to design thinking as a process for creative problem-solving using a mix of lecture, video, interactive exercises, and facilitated discussion.
• Educate participants on all steps of the design thinking process as developed by the Stanford School: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test.
• Expose participants to the various applications for design thinking across a variety of sectors.
• Train participants in select design research, ideation, and prototyping methods.
• Provide participants with in-workshop experience applying an end-to-end design thinking process to a notional yet universally shared challenge (example: reimagine the subway rider experience; reimagine the grocery store shopping experience).
• Provide participants with experience using design thinking tools such as customer interview scripts, journey maps, personas, and other design thinking artifacts.

Prereqs & Preparation

None.