Introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation

3 Credits

Design Thinking is a proven process for identifying problems and creating solutions to address them. Key tools and terminology of Design Thinking and related processes that encourage creativity as a way to innovate will be explored. The emphasis is on learning by doing and focuses on practicing the 5 steps in Design thinking: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test that can be applied to virtually any area where new solutions are needed.