Cooper Crash Course: Design Thinking in 3 Steps

Course details

In this course, youll learn design thinking from the people who helped invent it. Cooper Professional Education is a team of educators within Designit, a global strategic design firm. Our coaches help organizations across the globe learn and adopt a human-centered approach to innovation.

Our team formed in 2001 as a professional development initiative at Cooper, one of the first interaction design firms. Cooper was founded by Sue and Alan Cooper, a pioneer of the modern computing era who created the programming language Visual Basic.

This course is taught by Alan Cooper, Sanskriti Ayyar, and Teresa Brazen (Senior Director of Cooper Professional Education).

Through this interactive course, youll learn a different approach to strategic problem solving so that you can create experiences customers love. Youll practice design thinking on a real-life project and equip yourself with a powerful set of tools to become more collaborative, innovative, and effective.

Youll learn:

• how to understand the problem from your customer's perspective;

• how to effectively brainstorm innovative ideas;

• and how to create prototypes to test your new ideas before investing a lot of time and money.

We designed this class for people whove heard about design thinking but who dont know exactly what it is or how it works. If you want to start learning about design thinking while working on a real project that you can add to your portfolio, this is the course for you.

This class is geared to a wide range of professionals, whether youre a business leader wanting to better understand what the designers at your company do, or a generalist wanting to break out of solving problems in the same old way.

Music used throughout the course: "Rainbows" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech .com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.