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About the Course

Today innovation is everyone's business. Whether you are a manager in a global corporation, an entrepreneur starting up, in a government role, or a teacher in an elementary school, everyone is expected to get lean – to do better with less. And that is why we all need design thinking. At every level in every kind of organization, design thinking provides the tools you need to become an innovative thinker and uncover creative opportunities that are there – you're just not seeing them yet. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, we provide an overview of design thinking and work with a model containing four key questions and several tools to help you understand design thinking as a problem solving approach. We also look at several stories from different organizations that used design thinking to uncover compelling solutions....

Top reviews

LM

Sep 22, 2019

I really liked the peer reviews at the end. It was a great way to view other examples of how different projects, industries, and teams have used design thinking. The course was easy to follow as well.

ET

Jan 29, 2023

I learned a new approach by this course. I strongly recommend it to any business person who wants to find innovative solutions for his challenges in daily business life as well as long term solutions.

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By Alejandro G

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Nov 3, 2020

Es importante cambiar el paradigma de como pesar soluciones e ideas innovadoras, para eso hay que promover este tipo de aprendizajes y utilizarlos en el dia a dia

By Thainá A d N P

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Oct 7, 2020

Very interesting, and we see how sometimes we already use the tools learned on a daily basis but we end up seeing the importance and how to do it more effectively

By Franklin R L

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Apr 7, 2020

Great course for learn specific tools I can use on a design thinking process. I appreciate the for powerful questions: What is ?, what if? what wows ? what works?

By Ricardo S

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Apr 2, 2019

This course is amazing, provide very good information, with excellent examples. I recommend to everybody who wants to know about Design Thinking take this course.

By subinit r

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Jan 15, 2021

Very well rounded, well designed course with ample real life examples. Was excited throughout the course. Thank you so much professor Liedtka, team and coursera.

By AKARSH B

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Sep 2, 2020

An accurately structured course which introduces new design tools in a systematic way along with examples. Jeanne Leidtka explained each and every point clearly.

By OMKAR N K

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Jun 28, 2020

An amazing course, very well understandable for a beginner. The lectures and examples used to explain the tools are so effective, one can easily understand them.

By Aishwarya S H

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May 6, 2020

Definitely a course for everybody to learn to understand and evaluate the situations better in real life and workplace. This also helps to find better solutions.

By Vincent A A

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Dec 23, 2020

The course is so engaging by using real life examples and encouraging language and many more. I was impressed by Professor Jeanne Ledtka the course facilitator.

By Dinesh K

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Jul 24, 2020

Very Useful Course ,The course was a eyeopener for me in identifying the different approach to solve the problem,The examples are very effective, and Thank You.

By Ain N

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Mar 31, 2020

The course provides crystal clear example of what and how to apply Design Thinking. You may also take IBM Free Design Thinking course to complement this course.

By Tatiana T

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Mar 12, 2017

The course opened my mind to the technical use of design thinking tools. For me design in general has always been important, but now I feel I can argue from it.

By Basant N S

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Apr 15, 2021

It was a great learning experience for me. In fact I've started applying a few of the methods described in the course to innovate at my work & life. Thank you.

By Evanthia S

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Mar 16, 2021

Very enlightening course focusing on the main Design Thinking Tools and Principles. I would recommend it to people with no or minimum experience in this field.

By Naziyr R Z Y

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Sep 9, 2020

Very informative and insightful. This class teaches ways in which to make development & implementation of new ideas and processes more efficient & less costly.

By ANIKETH

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Sep 30, 2018

This well structured course gave me insight of many unknowns to me. I will surely recommend it to any young manager who is in peruse of his carrier of success.

By Jee L

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Apr 26, 2018

Great introduction and explanation about design thinking. Really love the course and the techniques of design thinking. I definitely will use it in daily life!

By Naveen A

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Feb 21, 2018

This is an amazing course, which helps you understand fundamental concepts of Design Thinking and how it can help one innovate and solve problems at workplace.

By Hannan K

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Sep 1, 2021

I learned a lot from this course, design thinking for innovation. It was mind-blowing for me and it opened my eyes about how to launch an innovative business.

By Graciela C

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Oct 24, 2020

It is very nice and interesting course for those who want to learn how you can apply Design Thinking for innovation product and also process in a organization

By Almir L

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Mar 3, 2024

Excellent learning content. In addition to the video classes, the editable templates provided by the course were of great value for my practical applications

By David

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Apr 21, 2021

Un curso muy completo para las personas que quieran aprender sobre design thinking, muestran de manera muy práctica cada una de las fases de design thinking.

By paola n b

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Mar 1, 2021

A very interesting course. I learned a lot about this alternative approach to problem solving. The process itself and every tool and aid. Highly recommended.

By Vaishnavi S

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Sep 7, 2020

Very Informative course with Case studies which helps reinforce the concepts in a concrete manner. The expertise of the professors made the course more rich.

By Bruno X

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Jun 8, 2020

Great course! Very interesting topic and very clear examples!

I intend to continue using the techniques learned and improve their use towards my daily duties.