Applied Innovation

2 credits · Graduate

We are in the midst of a digital transformation that is changing how industries work and how we will live and work. Responding to this massive change requires that we learn approaches to framing and solving problems different from the analytical approaches most of us have learned and practiced in our careers. Enter design thinking. Designers have long practiced immersion in ambiguous situations, imagining and conceptualizing alternative futures, and learning through experimentation and failure. This course teaches students new ways of collecting data to characterize a problem space, enabling them to frame and reframe problems, generate a range of possible solutions, and then gather feedback to assess those solutions.