Skill builders - deep dive workshops Short, focused workshops to build design thinking mastery

Skill builders - deep dive workshops Program overview

Design Thinking Master Classes are a series of half-day workshops created to deepen design thinking knowledge where teams need it most.

Typically 3-4 hours in duration, our Design Thinking Master Classes allow groups of up to 30 participants to gain valuable hands-on experience with specific elements of the methodology.

What to expect

Treehouse Design Thinking Skill Builder programmes are an opportunity to develop real expertise in the areas that you may have only touched on in other courses. Training sessions are fast-paced, with a 1:2 ratio of teaching to guided application.

Programme Outcomes

Participants will leave with greater skill and confidence to apply design thinking tools and methods on the job. Specifically, they will be better able to:

User observation and empathy

Apply a range of ethnographic research methods to gain valuable insights
Identify unmet or unconscious user needs
More effectively question and listen with empathy and purpose

Opportunity and challenge framing

Use customer insights to frame specific opportunity spaces for innovation
Define strategic challenges for optimal outcomes
Use the “How Might We” process to reframe strategic challenge

Ideation and lateral thinking

Effectively break the predictable trains of thought that hamper innovation
Generate more novel, creative, and exciting ideas with confidence
See previously obscured possibilities and opportunities

Prototyping, experimentation and iteration

Create effective, rough and ready prototypes for products, services and strategies
Design quick, low-risk, low-cost experiments to test critical elements of early stage ideas
Incorporate learning into progressively higher-fidelity prototypes using a variety of media

Duration

In-Person: 4 hours live facilitation

Who is this for?

Design practitioners, relative newcomers, anyone seeking to deepen their knowledge around specific methods

Prerequisite:

Basic design thinking awareness and understanding

Interested?

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