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About the Program

This program gives you the tools to make innovation a daily practice in your life. Through hands-on exercises and application-based frameworks, you learn how to harness your creativity to continuously produce novel solutions to any challenge you face. Stanford Design School (d.school) instructors guide you through a journey of discovering inspiration, generating ideas, and applying problem-solving strategies to projects at home or in your office.

By completing the program I can now:

  • Continuously produce breakthrough ideas
  • Catalyze design thinking in my company
  • Unlock the innovative capacity of my team
  • Build a lifelong practice of creative problem-solving

Program Highlights

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Program Content

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Introduction to Design Thinking

Jeremy Utley and Justin Ferrell will introduce you to design thinking, as they teach it every day here at the Stanford d.School. Get started in your design thinking journey and prepare for further, more hands-on courses.

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Empathize and Prototype: A Hands on Dive into the Key Tools of Design Thinking

Master techniques for gaining empathy with customers and immediately put them to use in a series of hands-on exercises that guide you from synthesis to prototyping and testing.

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Achieving Innovation through Inspiration

Inspiration isn’t something you wait for. It’s something you work for. Gain the critical tools you need to seek the inspiration that will turn unknowns into radically new products and services.

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Innovation at Work

Follow along with hands-on exercises that lead you from ideation to prototyping and presentation. You'll learn how to lead innovation and brainstorming sessions in your company.

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Coaching

Dr. Kathryn Segovia of the Stanford d.school will guide you through a series of coaching lessons between each course that will help you build your daily creative practice and form a lifelong routine that fosters innovation.

Graduate or Professional?

Time Commitment

Achievement

Classmate Interactions

Cost

Graduate Certificate Courses

90–120 hours per course

Earn up to 18 units of academic credit that may contribute to a certificate or a degree

Frequent collaboration with other students taking courses at the same time

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Professional Certificate Courses

6–13 hours per course

Earn a certificate and, in some cases, professional education units

Potential to connect with other participants through private social media groups

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The Design Thinking Crew

Justin Ferrell

Adjunct Professor, Stanford d.school

Kathryn Segovia

Lecturer, Stanford d.school

Perry Klebahn

Adjunct Professor, Stanford d.school

Jeremy Utley

Adjunct Professor, Stanford d.school

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