Certificates

IDEO U

Foundations in Design Thinking Certificate

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Certificate Description

Learn and practice the core concepts of design thinking from IDEO—the company that has been honing the methods of a human-centered approach to business for over 40 years. We’ve designed this program to give you a foundational, practical understanding of the essential design thinking skills and mindsets.

Certificate Program Outcomes

• Gain techniques to better understand the social, emotional, and physical needs of your customers.
• Apply methods that will help you turn your customer needs into human-centered solutions.
• Use ideation techniques to quickly generate, develop, and test new ideas.
• De-risk your new ideas by gaining feedback through rapid prototypes.
• Showcase your new skills through tangible, real-world project challenges, like an insights report or prototypes of products and services.

Skills I’ll Gain

• Customer Insights
• Interviewing
• Brainstorming Techniques

Courses Include

1. Insights for Innovation
   1. Learn to use insights to turn customer needs into human-centered solutions
2. From Ideas to Action
   1. Learn to prototype, experiment, and iterate to move your ideas forward