Design Thinking I – Basics and Design Thinking II – Advanced:

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Design Thinking II – Advanced (ILT/VILT)

Advanced Methodological Training for Each Phase in the Design Thinking Process

Are you looking for more and more effective techniques and methods for Design Thinking in your professional field? The jungle of available micro-methods offers suitable tools for every purpose.

Seminar Description

In the Design Thinking Advanced Training, you will expand your methodological toolkit. You will learn additional methods for each phase of the Design Thinking process. After the training, you will know which methods are particularly useful for your specific area of application, what matters in their implementation, and by what criteria you can assemble your own toolbox. At the same time, this offers an opportunity to go through the entire Design Thinking process once again using your own practical topic and practice in a team.

As a graduate of the Advanced Training, you are qualified to participate in our Design Thinking III – Facilitator Training.

Learning Objectives

  • Practice additional micro-methods for each phase and apply them to your own practical topic.
  • Selectively choose and use micro-methods to support the discovery process in the Design Thinking team.
  • Explore what is necessary in practical work with each method to achieve the desired results/insights.
  • Transfer to your own work environment and how to overcome expected hurdles in application.

Seminar Contents (2-3 Days)

Deepening Design Thinking Know-How:

» Additional methods and techniques for each phase in the DT process
» Systematically evaluate and further utilize results from each step
» Overcome individual difficulties and hurdles
» Joint reflection
» Use of AI in Design Thinking projects

Understand and Observe

» Methods for design research and immersion
» Questioning techniques and questionnaires for extreme user interviews
» Deepening of ethnographic methods
» Try out research tools on a practical project

Define

» Identify primary, secondary, and latent user needs
» Play with data: Methods to gather insights for hypothesis formation
» Persona from the past and from the future
» Service Blueprint and Customer Experience Journey
» Compose Point of Views, Mission Statements, and Need Statements
» Define design criteria
» Try out synthesis methods on a practical project

Ideate

» Get to know and try out various creativity techniques
» Discursive and intuitive techniques for ideation
» Team idea development: Brainstorming and evaluation techniques
» Analogy technique, stimulus word analysis, S.C.A.M.P.E.R, concept extraction
» Develop and select ideas for the practical project

Prototype

» Explore strengths of different prototyping techniques
» Experience Prototype, Dark Horse Prototype, Wizard of Oz Prototype
» Prototyping of partial aspects and building alpha prototypes
» Digital prototyping tools

Test

» Plan and set up test scenarios
» Select test persons, conduct test interviews, document and evaluate
» Various testing procedures

Evaluation and Transfer

» Understanding the selection of methods: When to use which method and how to build your own method toolkit?
» Strategies for integrating the most important Design Thinking principles
» Transfer of Design Thinking into your own work field in the company
» Integration of Design Thinking into agile work environments

Methods

Interactive lecture, case studies, team and individual work, experience exchange and reflection, practical project, work on collaboration boards, use of creative media, creativity methods, prototype building, user tests, role-playing, play.

Benefits of the Seminar

The two to three-day Design Thinking Advanced Training builds on the basic training. Your opportunity to intensively practice and deepen what you learned in the basic training as a team.

The added value of the seminar for you personally:

  • You deepen your experience in working with Design Thinking
  • You gain a method overview and learn by which criteria you choose methods
  • You gain an even better understanding of how to conduct workshop methods and how they connect to each other
  • You Transfer Your Skills Even More Strongly to Your Own Work Area

The added value of the seminar for your company:

  • Alignment of the company with customer and user needs
  • More intense customer relationships
  • Minimizing risk when introducing new products and services
  • Employee Empowerment: Strengthening Cooperation and Innovation Capability in the Team
  • Contribution to a collaborative corporate culture

Participation Requirements

The Design Thinking Advanced Training is aimed at all those who want to deepen their knowledge and experience. If you already apply Design Thinking professionally or plan to do so, this is the right place for you. As a participant, you should have basic prior knowledge. You have acquired this in our Design Thinking I – Basics training, in another basic training, or in your practical work with Design Thinking.

Workshop Information

The info PDF on our Design Thinking trainings (Download Pdf)

Participants

Innovators in strategy, product, and HR areas, IT professionals and organizational developers, consultants and coaches who want to expand their range of methods. Agile teams, companies, agencies, organizations, NGOs.

Maximum 12 participants

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Dates

Currently only bookable in-house.

For in-house trainings, we’d be happy to make you an offer. Simply send your inquiry to this email address: office@corecreate.de

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