The Design Thinking Practitioner Program empowers teams to drive innovation in their work. Your team will learn cutting-edge design thinking methodologies from industry experts to become equipped with the skills to approach challenges with a fresh perspective.
The Design Thinking Practitioner Program empowers teams to drive innovation in their work. Your team will learn cutting-edge design thinking methodologies from industry experts to become equipped with the skills to approach challenges with a fresh perspective.
You will build your capacity to empathize with users, define problem statements, brainstorm ideas, prototype solutions and iterate for optimal results. Teams will leave this program with invaluable insights, a collaborative mindset and enhanced ability to problem-solve.
Learning Outcomes
The Double Diamond Process, an established framework within the field of design thinking, offers several distinct advantages when employed for problem-solving and innovation. These benefits stem from its systematic and iterative nature, promoting a comprehensive exploration of problems and generating effective solutions.
The Double Diamond Process:
The Double Diamond Process provides problem solvers with a structured and holistic framework that enables them to tackle complex problems effectively. By emphasizing problem understanding, user-centeredness, iteration, collaboration and evidence-based decision-making, this approach enhances the chances of creating innovative, user-focused solutions.
The University of Alberta in Edmonton is one of the top teaching and research universities in Canada, with an international reputation for excellence across the humanities, sciences, creative arts, business, engineering and health sciences.
Mission:
Within a vibrant and supportive learning environment, the University of Alberta discovers, disseminates and applies new knowledge through teaching and learning, research and creative activity, community involvement and partnerships.
The U of A gives a national and international voice to innovation in our province, taking a lead role in placing Canada at the global forefront.
Vision:
To inspire the human spirit through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery and citizenship in a creative community, building one of the world's great universities for the public good.
Throughout this certificate program, participants will be expertly led through each phase of the design thinking process and develop a deep understanding of the tools and methods that can be applied to working with end-users.
Graphic designers must often solve challenging problems beyond simple aesthetic choices, and design thinking is an approach to problem solving that can help designers tackle these types of problems.
Most organizations today have identified innovation as a key enabler now and going forward. In fact, if you clicked on this link, yours is one of those organizations. The challenge these organizations face, however, is how to get started.
Design thinking is a methodology used to create effective and memorable products and experiences. It is a non-linear, iterative process in which solutions are generated by empathy and proven through measurable data.
Design Thinking is a facilitated collaborative, evidenced based process. It is not a top-down change management tool. Design Thinking rests on a simple premise: alternatives, and ideally improvements, are always possible. Informed by Human Centred Design,
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