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Design Thinking

Innovate and Execute New Ideas

Bridging the gap between left-brain and right-brain, Design Thinking helps professionals and their teams to innovate, problem solve, and execute new ideas. Butler’s online Design Thinking Certificate offers an effective learning method for this human-centered approach to building businesses and products. Our Design Thinking Certificate provides a toolkit to actually apply concepts and walk students through live projects.

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Program Details

Program Highlights

Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that provides the tools, thought-processes, and practices to create innovation. Applicable across any industry and profession, design thinking is proven to answer the “what” and “how” in order to develop a successful outcome in challenging situations.

Understand the needs of stakeholders.
Listen before solving.
Use a variety of qualitative methods.
Develop insights and themes.
Define the opportunity.
Create a range of possible solutions.
Build early drafts or prototypes.
Test the prototype to get feedback.
Incorporate feedback to improve the solution.
Plan for delivery, marketing, and tactical work.
Incorporate your typical project management process.

Requirements

The Design Thinking certificate is open to anyone, with no application requirements or prerequisites, and it is available online to students across the world.

Curriculum

Students are Design Thinking are able to complete the program’s full curriculum or sign up for the individual courses that meet their needs.

Individual Courses

DT 401 Intro to Design Thinking

Bridging the gap between left-brain and right-brain, Design Thinking helps professionals and their teams to innovate and execute new ideas. Butler’s Executive Education Design Thinking Certificate offers an effective learning method for this human-centered approach to building businesses and products. While we can tell you Butler’s Lacy School of Business is nationally ranked and recognized, Executive Education measures its impact in the field – among talented business professionals. Many certificate programs simply supply information. Our certificate programs mirror Butler’s belief in experiential education. On this basis, our Design Thinking Certificate provides a toolkit to actually apply concepts and walk students through live projects.

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DT 402 Design Thinking: Inquire

Understand the needs of stakeholders.
Listen before solving.
Use a variety of qualitative methods.

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DT 403 Design Thinking: Imagine

Develop insights and themes.
Define the opportunity.
Create a range of possible solutions.

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DT 404 Design Thinking: Invent

Build early drafts or prototypes.
Test the prototype to get feedback.
Incorporate feedback to improve the solution.

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DT 405 Design Thinking: Implement

Plan for delivery, marketing, and tactical work.
Incorporate your typical project management process.
Launch.

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Admission and Tuition

Admission

Students progress through the content at their preferred pace, accessing lectures, readings, and assignments on their schedule. Support channels are available for inquiries or assistance throughout their learning journey. Completion certificates are awarded upon fulfilling course requirements. The program’s rolling basis enrollment allows individuals to join and commence their studies at any time, offering flexibility and convenience. After completing the simple registration process, students have immediate access to the course(s). Individual courses and annual subscriptions can be accessed for 12 months from the registration date.

To complete the registration process, select the registration link for the specific course(s) or annual subscription from the curriculum list. If you do not have an account in Butler’s catalog platform, you will be promoted creating one. Once logged in, you will be able to select “enroll” and complete the payment process.

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