Design Thinking Training Basics [Practical skills in professional settings]

Learn the process of determining and solving problems from customer's perspective.

In this training, participants will gain the skills of "Design Thinking." This is a thought process that involves designing ways to solve what users consider to be problems and creating new products or ideas to solve them.
After understanding the complete flow of "Design Thinking", participants will be able to generate ideas, create prototypes, test those through work, and exchange opinions.
Participants in this training will acquire the skills and thought processes to apply design thinking in their work.

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Design Thinking Training Basics Goals

Understand and apply design thinking principles, gaining practical idea generation skills through group works.

Who Benefits the Most

The following is a general list of target participants for the training and can be adjusted upon review. Please contact us regarding your needs.

Mid-Level Employees, Managers, Young Employees

Result of Design Thinking Training Basics

  1. Participants will be able to determine and solve problems from the customer's perspective.
  2. Participants will also gain the ability to solve problems and leads to better connections with the customer.
  3. Participants will be able to provide ideas that are not bounded or limited in terms of creativity.

Training Objectives

1. Participants will be able to understand problems from the customer's point of view.

Participants will be able to identify existing problems from the customer's point of view.

2. Participants will be able to create original ideas without being limited by ideologies or rules.

Participants will acquire the ability to create new ideas helpful to the customers. This is an important skill for today's changing business scene.

3. Participants will be able to learn problem-solving skills from the customer's perspective.

Participants can learn the flow of design thinking through practice.

Estimated Training Duration

6 hours (subject to change)

Design Thinking Training Basics Curriculum

Other training content can be incorporated into the curriculum upon request at no additional charge.

1. The basic understanding of Design Thinking [Goal] Understand the big picture of Design Thinking
  • What is Design Thinking? [Why is Design Thinking essential more than ever?]
  • Objectives of Design Thinking [What Design Thinking can be used for/what Design Thinking cannot be used for]
  • Examples of successful Design Thinking
  • The Process of Design Thinking
2. Determine/ Share/ Define Topics [Goal] Follow the flow of the design thinking process to be able to determine, share, and define.
  • Selecting topics that will serve as a basis [Key points for topic selection]
  • Looking into the popular needs [Apparent and latent needs]
  • Three methods of empathy
  • How to make an observation [Methods of observation/ Points of observation/ Focus on extreme users (extreme users)/ Things to consider in "BtoB"]
  • How To Conduct An Interview [Cautions when interviewing / Key points of interviewing / Work: User interview]
  • Clearly state the important key needs
  • [How to define the needs / The needs that should be stated].
  • Flow of discussion [Organize by customer journey / Finding pain points / Clarify and summarize the focus at the end]
3. Creating a proposal [Goal] Understand how to present an idea and execute it
  • Tips for creating a new proposal
  • Brainstorming [Put yourself in a brainstorming mindset]
  • Key points of brainstorming
  • Selecting ideas [3 elements for creating goods and services]
4. Trial / Test [Goal] Be able to check from demo creation to the testing phase
  • What is a prototype? [Decide based on whether it can be achieved or not/ Determine what needs to be tested beforehand]
  • Create a prototype [Create a fast and cheap prototype/ It is okay to make mistakes]
  • Conduct a pilot study (test run)
  • (Be discreet/ Observe the user/ Listen to what the user has to say/ Check with the results)
  • Keep updating and improving after the release date
5. Practicing Design Thinking [Goal] Use Design Thinking toward the company's work, product, and service
  • Workshop: Make sure how to implement Design Thinking [Splitting into small groups/ice break/points]
  • Workshop: Choose a topic
  • Workshop: Conduct user interviews [Define the problem or need to be solved]
  • Workshop: Create a hypothesis [Select an idea]
  • Workshop: Create and test it out [Organize the feedback/ How to make revisions based on the feedback]
  • Workshop: Takeaways from practicing Design Thinking

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Design Thinking Training Basics Participant Requirements

No particular requirements

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