Design thinking workshop

About this event

Explore how human-centered design can help develop innovative solutions for the complex challenges we face.

Date & Time

3rd Mar 2021 - 18:00 (GMT)

Cost

£55

Author

Hosted by

General Assembly

About This Workshop

Design Thinking stresses the importance of cultivating empathy for end users, interpreting and framing problems they experience, creative solution generation, and continuous prototyping and testing. Embedded within Design Thinking is the assumption that we must think “outside ourselves.” Great design doesn’t happen within the four walls of a studio or office. It happens in the real world.

In increasingly complex times, innovation and collaboration skills are becoming vital to businesses, and both principles are essential in Design Thinking. This hands-on workshop will lead you through the design thinking process, taught by design thinking professionals that live and breathe in this space. This session will explore how human-centered design can help develop innovative solutions for the complex challenges we face as businesspeople, non-profit leaders, entrepreneurs, and global citizens.


Takeaways

  • Understand the end-to-end process of design thinking through hands-on research and ideation exercises to tackle complex challenges
  • Learn tools and techniques to adopt both divergent and convergent mindsets in your problem-solving process to help you 'think outside the box' before diving into a solution
  • Apply collaborative and inclusive design practices to empower teams, cultivate empathy and build the right solutions that are desirable, viable and feasible


Preparation

  • This class is taken completely online via Zoom and Slack.
  • You will need access to a laptop or computer with a working webcam and microphone as well as a strong internet connection.
  • Class set up information will be emailed the day before & again on the day of the class.
  • All communication will be sent to the email used to purchase a ticket. If you have signed up on behalf of a friend or colleague, please forward along this information.

NOTE: this session will not be recorded. Participants are encouraged to download and save any shared materials (worksheets/deck) during class for later reference as they are not shared by email.


About the Instructor

Nirish Shakya Photo

Nirish Shakya

Principal UX Designer,

Red Badger

Nirish Shakya is a human-centred design leader, design educator and design thinking coach. He's currently the Principal UX Designer at Red Badger in London and a UX Instructor at General Assembly. Before then, he led the design of service experiences and design transformation at NOW TV. He also coaches individuals and teams on design thinking and helps organisations embed more customer-centric practices in the way they build products and services.

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