Design Thinking Workshop – Introduction to DT
Creative Innovative Solutions
What is a Design Thinking Workshop?
This Design Thinking workshop will help you develop practical and innovative solutions for your problems. Design Thinking is a human-focused, prototype-driven process for innovation. This method teaches you how to innovate and how to make out-of-the-box thinking a regular practice for your team.
What Are the Benefits?
- Create innovative solutions that better meet your customers needs and bring a competitive advantage
- Develop a culture of innovation in your team that breaks the silos and embraces empathy and co-creation
- Reduce risks in projects using a collaborative and iterative approach
When to use?
Use this Design Thinking workshop at the beginning of the project and during the pre-design phase.
What we deliver?
You will benefit from new thinking approaches, new ideas, and new opportunities to add value to your business. Design Thinking can reward a brand by establishing and retaining engaged and highly specific customer segments.
Look at the dates of the next Design thinking training.
Innovate through Design (Intro to DT)
UX Courses
Breaking the Barriers to Innovation
Innovate through Design
one day workshop
Are you keen to innovate and teach your team to think out of the box and change their mindset?
Our introductory “Design Thinking” workshop offers you a practical framework for solving design or innovation problems. It’s a human-focused, prototype-driven process for innovation based on empathy.
This workshop will give you practical and progressive solutions (through divergent / convergent thinking) to face your design challenges.
Advantages
The Design Thinking methodology can be applied to many situation and context: to design or improve a product or a service, to change regulations and procedures to be more citizen oriented, to discover innovative solutions in a social design context, to solve complex problems, and to improve people’s lives.
Objectives
- Acquire the fundamental concepts of Design Thinking
- Become familiar with the design process phases
- Learn practical methods alternating divergent and convergent thinking
Course Content
The course will start with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Design Thinking and problem-solving. Other topics covered include:
- Developing an empathic approach and a culture based on collaboration and innovation
- Techniques to ideation generation techniques
- Group workshop, sketching and rapid prototyping
Regular fee : $500
Preferential fee : $420 ? The preferential fee is applied to more than 6 participans
Next dates: On-demand
Private groups 4-6 and more
More info
Please contact us: jsemp@yucentrik.ca
Targeted Audience
This course is for everyone: UX designers, service designers, industrial designers, web designers, interface designers, front-end developers, IT professionals, marketing professionals, and business leaders who want to improve their innovation and problem-solving skills.
Who's Teaching?
Joelle Stemp founded the UX agency Yu Centrik in 2003. With great perseverance and adaptability, Yu Centrik was steered through many technological and societal changes to reach 2017 with great relevance. Joelle is a pioneer in the adoption of user experience and service design in Quebec. With a background in communications and a talent for design, Joelle began her career as a designer specialized in user interfaces and has spent the last 25 years involved in projects related to user experience and convergent medias (Web, digital TV, mobile, IVR, OOH).
Joelle designed the first Campus Wide Information System (CWIS) on the Internet for the University of Montreal in 1990 and was part of a user interface group at CRIM (Montreal Computing Research Center). Being as one of the first Certified HFI’s Usability Analyst, she continues to learn about human behaviour and is still as passionate as ever to design engaging products and services that customers will love using. Joelle is very involved in teaching the UX-PM Certification program developed in collaboration with her partners at UXalliance, a global network of User Experience Experts.
Fees and Duration
1 day (from 9:00 am to 16:30 pm)
Regular Fee $840 + taxes
Group Discount (3+) $670 + taxes