Design Thinking Crash Course | From Beginner to Practitioner
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Take part in the Design Thinking crash course since 2018. This is the brand new English version, based on 2 years of participants’ feedback and the experiences of our live crash courses in Berlin.
Spend around 3 hours to get your certificate:
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85min core video content (theory lessons + working through an example challenge)
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Additional 105min homework to work through your own Design Thinking Challenge (in parallel to the course) if you want to acquire the Design Thinking Certificate from Responsive Strategy. We are a member of the Design Thinking Association.
This is a step-by-step guide of how to use the Design Thinking approach to solve your challenge in the area of product, service, business, organization or corporate strategy. You will also learn how to facilitate a Design Thinking workshop. You can work on your own challenge parallel to the course or just listen to everything and learn how Design Thinking works using our example challenge.
The Crash Course includes:
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1.5 hours of videos including insights into an example Design Thinking Challenge
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Templates to use for your Design Thinking challenge at home, at work or during a workshop (with our permission for continued use)
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A step by step “homework” for working on your own challenge (optional)
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Quizzes to check your learning progress
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Templates that can be downloaded as word or powerpoint – for continued use after the course
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A pdf handout at the end of the course that summarizes your learnings and as a backup for your own workshop or project
Download the following templates with the permission to use it after the course:
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Market / situation analysis questions
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Interview template
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Empathy map
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Define template
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Disney methods template
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Now-wow-how matrix
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Prototype template
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Feedback template
This is the Udemy course based on the teaching concept used in Design Thinking Crash Course Meetup in Berlin with already more than 1,300 members. This group was founded by Julia Lettinger in 2018 and is now the German chapter of the worldwide Design Thinking Association. The learning concept has been tried and tested many times.
The Design Thinking Crash Course is based on:
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2 years feedback from Udemy course participants (the German version of this course is live since 2018)
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Julia Lettinger’s practical experience from numerous design thinking workshops and trainings
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The application of design thinking in Responsive Strategy’s national and international consulting projects in the field of strategy and innovation
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Julia Lettinger’s teaching experience as a lecturer of strategy methods at the Berlin School of Economics and Law
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Application of Design Thinking and MindsetSolve challenges in the areas of product, service, business, change management and strategy through going from problem to solution.
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The Design Thinking Principles
Understand the most important design thinking principles.
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The Design Thinking Challenge
Formulate a Design Thinking Challenge.
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Think About a Challenge that you Want to Solve with Design Thinking
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The Design Thinking Process
Design Thinking is a 5-stage stakeholder-focused approach, structured according to the "Double Diamond" principle.
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Empathize Phase - Step by Step Guide (incl. templates)
What is the challenge you are working on? A new product or a new process? Before you brainstorm solutions, it is helpful to look at the problem at bit closer. What are the core aspects? What is really behind it? What do you really want to solve?
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Test your KnowledgeTest yourself!
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Live Example from a Design Thinking Workshop
Work through the 5 Design Thinking steps using the example challenge: "How might the perfect holiday booking process look like?". The video describes the Design Thinking step "Empathize - understand the problem".
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Empathize with Your Challenge
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Define Phase - Step by Step Guide (incl. templates)
Specify the challenge you want to tackle. Which target group and which aspect do you focus on? What is the core of the problem that you need to solve?
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Test your Knowledge
Test yourself!
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Live Example from a Design Thinking Workshop
Work through the 5 Design Thinking steps using the example challenge: "How might the perfect holiday booking process look like?". The video describes the Design Thinking step "Define - (Re)define the Problem".
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Define or Redefine Your Problem
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Ideate Phase - Step by Step Guide (incl. templates)
In this phase you have to be creative. Here you can brainstorm, have visions, be creative. Everything is allowed and even desired. It works even better in a team.
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Test your Knowledge
Test yourself!
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Live Example from a Design Thinking Workshop
Work through the 5 Design Thinking steps using the example challenge: "How might the perfect holiday booking process look like?". The video describes the Design Thinking step "Ideate - Generate ideas".
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Ideate Solutions to Your Challenge
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Prototype Phase - Step by Step Guide (incl. templates)
Time to get practical! With simple materials you can visualize the prototype of your favorite idea. The main thing is to create something simple, quickly and in an inexpensive way.
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Test your Knowledge
Test yourself!
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Live Example from a Design Thinking Workshop
Work through the 5 Design Thinking steps using the example challenge: "How might the perfect holiday booking process look like?". The video describes the Design Thinking step "Prototype - Create something you can test".
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Prototype Your Ideas
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Test Phase: Step by Step Guide (incl. templates)
Test your prototype - the visualisation of your idea(s) - with the stakeholders and obtain feedback. Iterate and improve your prototype as long as needed.
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Test your Knowledge
Test yourself!
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Live Example from a Design Thinking Workshop
Work through the 5 Design Thinking steps using the example challenge: "How might the perfect holiday booking process look like?". The video describes the Design Thinking step "Test - test your prototype".
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Test Your Prototype
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Final Test
This test is summarizing the essentials from all the lessons.
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Congratulations and Certificate
When you get here, you have successfully passed the course. You have now the option of sending one worksheet for each of the 5 Design Thinking steps to [email protected] in order to receive your course certificate.
