Design Thinking: Insights to Inspiration

About this course

Welcome Designers! In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, we will introduce you to the design thinking process. It is a project-based course in which you will identify a human-centered problem that you want to solve. We will focus our attention on the first seven steps of our 14-Step design thinking process. We’ll guide you through crafting and carrying out a research plan that helps you answer the question, “What is?” You will gather and identify important insights about the needs and wants of others and use this information to identify the attributes of an ideal solution.

What you will learn

• How to navigate the design thinking process to tackle a human-centered problem
• How to craft out an effective research plan
• How to draw key insights from the design process to arrive at ideal solutions