DESIGN THINKING
DESIGN THINKING
This intensive workshop offers a deep-dive introduction to the concept and practice of design thinking for services, processes, and products.
This intensive workshop offers a deep-dive introduction to the concept and practice of design thinking for services, processes, and products.
This intensive workshop offers a deep-dive introduction to the concept and practice of design thinking for services, processes, and products. Understand why design thinking has become the go-to approach for innovation across industries, and learn how to apply it according to your own needs. You’ll walk away with a complete toolkit for human-centred innovation, built on the “Understand - Explore - Test” methodology that underlies CIID’s approach to any design challenge.
Prerequisites
No specific prerequisites are needed—just an open mind, a curious approach, and hands that are ready to make things.
How you’ll learn
This hands-on course will guide you through the entire design thinking process, from understanding a stakeholder group to discovering a need to creating a process, service, product, or app that addresses that need. You will do research, create insights, and prototype and test solutions. Along the way you’ll learn practical tools to take back to your work, including research methods, synthesis approaches, user journey mapping, rapid ideation, and experience prototyping techniques. By the final day, you will be ready to apply this knowledge to your own work and become an ambassador of fast-paced change inside your organisation.
Lectures are spread throughout the four days and are immediately followed by direct hands-on applications, research and prototyping, and individual and group coaching along the way. We will work according to a rapid design thinking process that puts the user at the centre to create actionable, business-ready experience prototypes.
What you’ll learn
What to bring
Simona Maschi is a co-founder and director of the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Leading the overall organisation at CIID she heads a team that encompasses a world class consultancy, education programme and a research lab.
Simona is an expert in service design, scenario design and design methods and is passionate about design solutions that create a positive impact on the world. She supports this vision through creating a design culture that works in collaboration with academia and industry. Recent projects have explored topics such as private and public transportation, health and wellbeing, sustainable housing, and smart cities.
Widely respected in industry, Simona regularly speaks at conferences and events, bringing inspiration on how people centred design can create new and reinforce existing innovation paths. She is a member of the jury for the IXDA Interaction Awards 2014 and part of a board of experts implementing new design strategies at the University of Macau in China.
Simona has over 15 years teaching experience at various institutions including Denmark’s Design School (DKDS) and the IT University in Copenhagen. She has lectured at the Politecnico University in Milan, and was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Until June 2006, she was an associate professor and researcher at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy.
Simona studied at the Polytechnic University of Milan where where she completed both her PhD in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication (2002), and her MA in Architecture (1996).
