Design Thinking Certificate

In this program, you will master a robust, human-centered approach to designing and improving products, experiences and systems at any scale. Working either on your own or with a team of your choosing, you’ll start by defining the problem or challenge you seek to address and then gather key user insights and emotions that will help you develop personas and user narratives. From there, you’ll move into idea generation and rapid prototyping for potential solutions and improvements. Informed by testing and analysis, you’ll learn to iterate on and refine your prototype using design thinking methodology to ultimately generate a rigorous, viable design solution.

Throughout the courses, you will leverage design thinking to create a constant interplay of intuitive and data-driven decision making.

In order to be successful in this program students will need to be familiar with descriptive statistics visualization such as graphing in excel or another comparable application.

Courses

Key Takeaways

Record a compelling challenge statement that focuses your design effort on a meaningful question
Perform fieldwork to gather user insights
Interpret user data using modified systems engineering tools
Develop personas that empower you to envision innovative solutions
Create and refine a prototype
Use data and analysis to test and iterate on the prototype solution

What You’ll Earn

Design Thinking Certificate from Cornell University College of Engineering
144 Professional Development Hours (14.4 CEUs)

Who Should Enroll

User experience/UX designers
Marketers and designers
Product managers
Engineers
Program and project managers
Consultants
Systems analysts
Entrepreneurs involved in product conception
Individual contributors, managers and leaders at all levels of an organization who are involved in the design, development, or improvement of products, services, and infrastructure

Total Investment

6 months to complete all the courses

How To Enroll

For more information on how to enroll, please visit Design Thinking Certificate