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Design Thinking

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Professional Certificate

Design Thinking Course Online

  • Live Classroom
  • Part-Time
  • Expert Instructors

Get hands-on experience applying the Design Thinking Process and use it to solve complex business problems and develop user-oriented solutions.

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  • Tuition details and scholarships
  • Financing options
  • Employer sponsorship

Next Kickoff:

August 15

6:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT

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Learn Design Thinking Live, Led by Experienced Design Leaders

Design Thinking is one of the most effective ways for groups to solve challenging problems. In this live course, learn each step of the Design Thinking Process and complete a hands-on Design Thinking workshop to prepare you to bring this powerful methodology back to your work and life.

Learn Design Thinking Online

Online classroom. Live and expert-led.

Build Design Thinking skills

Ideal for learners looking to upskill.

Real Outcomes

Complete a hands-on Design Thinking workshop.

Professional Certificate

Earn a BrainStation Design Thinking Certificate.

Upcoming Course Dates & Campuses

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July 23 August 19 August 19 5 Tuesdays 2024-07-23T22:30:00.0000000Z - 2024-07-24T01:30:00.0000000Z
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Unit 1

Empathize & Ideate

As a human-centered practice, the first step of the Design Thinking Process is Empathy: understanding your user. Learn to complete effective user research through techniques like interviews, and use your insights to understand their true needs, captured in personas. Bring this understanding into the Ideation phase and leverage unique ideation techniques to develop a wide range of innovative solutions.

Key Skills:
User Research
User Interviews
Personas
Customer Needs Statements
Rapid Ideation
ChatGPT
User Research With GenAI

Complete Effective User Research

All great solutions begin with a strong understanding of the end user. Learn how to complete effective user research that sets the foundation for the rest of the Design Thinking Process.

Build User Personas

Translate your new understanding into user personas: powerful representations of your users that allow you and your team to step in their shoes and develop an effective solution tailored to their needs.

Use Rapid Ideation to Discover Multiple Solutions

Learn how to facilitate rapid ideation to quickly generate large numbers of innovative solutions within a short period of time.

Unit 2

Prototype & Test

Design Thinking is an iterative process. Learn to create lightweight prototypes to test potential solutions and determine if they truly meet customer needs. Discover how to collect valuable feedback throughout your testing in order to inform each new iteration as your build toward a truly innovative solution for your users.

Key Skills:
Prototyping
Iterative Development
Customer Testing
Prototype Refinement

Learn to Define Lightweight Prototypes

Prototypes must be designed to test potential solutions quickly and easily. Learn how to define a lightweight prototype that helps you validate your solutions faster.

Discover How to Complete Customer Testing

With each solution iteration, learn how to collect effective feedback that validates your solution and guides your iterations toward a final innovation.

Unit 3

Crystallize & Pitch

The final phases of the Design Thinking Process are meant to make your solution a reality. Bring everything you’ve learned through this iterative process into a crystallized solution that you can pitch to others: an essential step in getting buy-in and creating action within the modern workforce.

Key Skills:
Crystallizing Your Solution
Pitch Preparation
Presentation Skills

Learn to Crystallize Your Solution

Collect your learnings from throughout the iterative Design Thinking Process and transform them into a crystallized solution that is ready to be communicated to others and put into action.

Practice Preparing and Pitching

Communicating your solution and gaining buy-in are essential skills to create action in the modern workforce. Learn how to tell the right story and kick-off your solution.

Taught by Experienced Industry Experts

BrainStation Instructors are experienced practitioners who work at the world's most innovative companies. They're experts in their field, and enter the classroom with years of experience making sure you're learning the most up-to-date and practical skills companies around the world need.

Christine Ko

Christine Ko

Sr. Interaction Designer at Google

Jacopo Marcantonio

Jacopo Marcantonio

Group Design Lead at Wise

Joy Sampoonachot

Joy Sampoonachot

Product Designer at Facebook

Rose Matsa

Rose Matsa

Senior Interaction Designer at Google

Ricardo Vazquez

Ricardo Vazquez

Sr. Manager, Product Design at Wealthsimple

Mina Bach

Mina Bach

UX/UI Designer at IBM

Christine Ko

Christine Ko

Sr. Interaction Designer at Google

Jacopo Marcantonio

Jacopo Marcantonio

Group Design Lead at Wise

Joy Sampoonachot

Joy Sampoonachot

Product Designer at Facebook

Rose Matsa

Rose Matsa

Senior Interaction Designer at Google

Ricardo Vazquez

Ricardo Vazquez

Sr. Manager, Product Design at Wealthsimple

Mina Bach

Mina Bach

UX/UI Designer at IBM

Built With Experts From The World's Most Innovative Companies

BrainStation partners with industry experts when building all of our courses, ensuring every course covers the latest industry-relevant topics and tools businesses need. We continue to work with our network of experts to update our courses so they're always up to date.

Complete an End-to-End Design Thinking Process

To earn your certificate, you’ll participate in a series of dynamic, hands-on Design Thinking activities in order to design a solution to one of multiple challenging problems you will choose. Participate in the complete Design Thinking Process to empathize with your users, ideate, prototype and test your solutions, and crystalize your final solution so it can be pitched to your class. Along the way, you’ll have learned the skills you need to apply the Design Thinking process to other problems within your work and life.

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  • Tuition details and scholarships
  • Financing options
  • Employer sponsorship

Earn a BrainStation Design Thinking Certificate

Upon completing BrainStation’s Design Thinking Course, you’ll receive an industry-recognized professional certificate to share with your network and showcase all that you’ve learned. BrainStation certificates are formatted for sharing on LinkedIn.

Learn in our Next-Gen Online Classroom

Instructor-Led, Live Online Courses, From the Comfort of Your Home

In all our online courses, learn from BrainStation's industry-expert instructors through real-time, interactive classes in an engaging classroom environment.

Interactive, Project-Based Learning

Join breakout room sessions in smaller teams as part of the hands-on projects in our online courses, where you will collaborate and learn together.

Community Beyond the Classroom

During your online course, engage with your classmates and instructors in BrainStation’s Slack community, where you’ll receive updates and support. Stay connected and in the loop throughout your online course.

What Our Graduates Are Saying

Dylan Hebb

Dylan Hebb

Senior Consultant at Content Bloom

When you take a BrainStation course, you're learning with some of the very best in the industry. You collaborate with product managers, digital strategists, UX designers, and all kinds of other backgrounds.

#brainstation #BeFutureProof #LearningAtBrainStation #remotelearning

Andrew Gosine

Andrew Gosine

Product Designer

Our instructor... was clear, detail oriented, and made the learning environment safe and collaborative. We got a lot of real world examples from him, and all the little details he shared made this entire course special, and more than simply reading a textbook.

Overall, I'm a big advocate for Brainstation's courses - they've proved to be extremely valuable in my career.

Greg Hayes

Greg Hayes

Co-Founder and CEO at Branch

My ultimate goal was to start my own company, and though I didn’t have a specific idea in mind at that time, I knew that BrainStation could provide me with the skills I would need to take an idea from conception to execution.

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Christopher Spinelli

Christopher Spinelli

Art Director at New York School of Interior Design

It's always hard to start something new, especially when it involves learning skills that you know will force you to think differently about your day-to-day work. I'm glad I got over that fear and signed up for two classes... both were fantastic!

#brainstation #webdesigner #webdevelopment

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