Design Thinking Bootcamp | Online | February 13
Steph Mellor
Principal at DigIO, Design and UX instructor ,
General Assembly
About This Workshop
In increasingly complex times, innovation and collaboration skills are becoming vital to businesses, and both principles are essential in Design Thinking. This hands-on workshop will lead you through the design thinking process, taught by design thinking professionals that live and breathe in this space. Together we'll explore how human-centered design can help develop innovative solutions for the complex challenges we face as businesspeople, non-profit leaders, entrepreneurs, and global citizens.
Takeaways
- Understand how to apply human-centered design principles to tackle complex challenges
- Learn techniques to improve ideation and prototyping
- Discover how to tell a compelling story to engage audiences
- Identify new ways to serve and support people by uncovering latent needs, behaviors, and desires
Preparation
This workshop will be completely live and online. In preparation, please download Zoom and Slack.
This session will not be recorded, however slides will be shared following the class.
About the Instructor
Steph Mellor
Principal at DigIO, Design and UX instructor ,
General Assembly
Steph is a human-centred design practitioner and coach delivering value-driven projects in strategic, service and experience design. As a General Assembly instructor, she draws on deep knowledge and experience in human behaviour and psychology, digital and organisational transformation, change implementation, and end-to-end project management.
A certified agile ScrumMaster with a combined background in internet science and sociology, Steph's experience includes: leading the Customer Experience Improvement Strategies for both the Cities of Boroondara and Port Phillip in Melbourne; the redesign of the Australian Department of Finance's staff intranet; delivering design thinking bootcamps for Singaporean government ministries; and conducting user research projects for New Zealand Customs and the City of Auckland.
Currently driving world-class research and design capability at human-centred technology consultancy Mantel Group, Steph is passionate about bringing coaching practice and design thinking together to deliver high-quality human experiences and build capability in others. She loves connecting technical and non-technical tribes, getting diverse humans working together, evangelising HCD and UX mindsets, coffee and talking (of course).
Refund Policy
We understand that, sometimes, plans change. If you can no longer make it to a class or workshop, please email us at least 7 days before the scheduled event date. No refunds will be given to cancellations made within a week of the class or workshop.
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