Design Thinking for Innovation

Virginia introduces design thinking as a way to approach an opportunity with curiosity and a willingness to test assumptions. Preparation leads into idea generation and experimentation before a final assignment. It suits beginners who want to connect creative thinking with what can be learned from a small, concrete test.

What you will learn

• Explain when design thinking can be useful.
• Generate ideas around an observed opportunity.
• Use experiments to compare possible outcomes.

Who this suits

Beginners; the provider requires no previous experience to participate.

Before you enroll

Treat a method as a way to explore a problem, then examine whether its ideas address the actual constraints. Generating many suggestions is different from selecting a useful one. Use feedback, small experiments and documented reasoning to improve an idea before investing in its implementation.

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Put it into practice

Create a simple prototype for a fictional service problem, ask someone to try it, and revise one assumption based on what you observe.

Source and review

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