IIT Bombay - IIT Bombay - Certificate Program in Design Thinking
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IIT Bombay - Certificate Program in Design Thinking at Emeritus Overview
Duration | 5 months |
Total fee | ₹1.00 Lakh |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Credential | Certificate |
IIT Bombay - Certificate Program in Design Thinking at Emeritus Highlights
- Earn a prestigious Certificate from IIT Bombay
- Hands-on learning with design and creativity exercises, sketching and modelling sessions and storytelling
- Gain actionable insights from case study discussions and guest lecture sessions
- Live online sessions, once a week, by leading faculty at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay
IIT Bombay - Certificate Program in Design Thinking at Emeritus Course details
- Team leaders interested to learn innovative methodologies to solve business or consumer-focused problems
- Directors and senior managers who want to build new business solutions by applying innovation and design thinking principles
- Working professionals across industries eager to explore design thinking and innovation and apply them as strategies in their business/ industry
- Cultivate design thinking as an organisational culture to drive innovation
- Develop a user-centric mindset while designing, innovating, developing and testing solutions for new products, services and systems
- Utilise observational research and in-depth interviewing skills to arrive at deeper user insights
- Develop the capability to empathise with potential users to develop meaningful products and services
- Participate and conduct constructive brainstorming and ideation sessions with interdisciplinary team members for new ideas and solutions
- Envisage solutions individually and in teams and create and present prototypes
- Develop the ability to test solutions and work on feedback loops
- Design thinking can help businesses innovate and transform the way businesses develop their products, services, operations, and corporate strategy. It uses observation and creativity to understand from a human perspective, what is technologically feasible, customer desirable and economically viable.
- IIT Bombay's Certificate Program in Design Thinking, delivered by leading faculty from the IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay and renowned industry experts will help you gain practical, actionable insights to identify design thinking as a core strategic capability for leading sustainable innovation and business transformation.
- Class Timings: Saturdays from 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
IIT Bombay - Certificate Program in Design Thinking at Emeritus Curriculum
Module 1: Design Thinking for User-centred
Innovation
Introduction to Design Thinking
Design Thinking as a problem-solving tool for solving wicked problems across different sectors
Roots of Design Thinking in Human Centric Design Process
Design Thinking Process: Five Stages
Tools and Techniques for Design Thinking process
Design Thinking case studies in Indian companies/ organisations
Module 2: Empathise with Users
Understanding the user and context of use
User research to access unmet and
unarticulated needs of users
Types of user research. From user-centric
to users as partners
Interviewing (Stories, Anecdotes)
Observational Research
Ergonomics and Human Factors
Module 3: Defining a Problem
Analysis of user data to gain deeper insights
Insights to design ideas and action
Affinity analysis
Empathy map
Persona
Module 4: Creative Ideation
Divergence and Convergence
Collaborative ideation
Creative ideation techniques
Sketching, Visualisation
Storytelling
Module 5: Prototyping
Ideas to presentable concepts
Storyboards
Developing mock-ups, models, and
prototypes
Quick and Dirty Prototyping
Module 6: Testing Ideas
Checking back with users-needs and aspirations
Presenting and communicating design
Presenting Prototypes, testing
prototypes, obtaining feedback to refine
products
Usability and ergonomic testing
Module 7: Product Design vs Designing for Services
Designing for Tangible and Intangibles
Digital touchpoints
Creating meaningful experiences with products/ services
Module 8: Product Innovation with Case Studies
Module 9: Design and Innovation as an Organisational Strategy
Organisational change: A culture of problem seeking, problem framing, creative ideation, making and testing
Collaborative innovations by
interdisciplinary teams
Roadmaps for the deployment of
design thinking in the organisation, to
solve wicked problems
IIT Bombay - Certificate Program in Design Thinking at Emeritus Faculty details
IIT Bombay - Certificate Program in Design Thinking at Emeritus Entry Requirements
- Any Graduate/ Diploma holder with minimum one-year work experience
- Freshers can also apply (subject to approval from IIT Bombay on a case-by-case basis)
- Participants will need Microsoft office, a good camera (mobile camera will do) and basic photo and video editing software
- Not mentioned
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