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Are you ready to break free from the way things have always been done?
Our courses and programs will teach you how to harness the power of design thinking to transform your organization. Learn to develop creativity and incorporate innovation into your everyday business practices.
- Develop brainstorming and prototyping skills to spur creativity
- Build empathy with your customer to better address their needs
- Find solutions to problems you face every day
Program Features
World Class Instructors
Learn from the founders and original pioneers of design thinking.
Online Learning
Join courses from anywhere in the world and learn from the comfort of your own home.
Flexible Pacing
Complete courses on your own time, at your own pace.
Stanford Certificate
Earn a certificate for any program that you complete.
Popular Courses and Programs
Creativity and Design Thinking
Make innovation a daily practice in your life. Through hands-on exercises and application-based frameworks, you’ll learn how to harness your creativity to continuously produce novel solutions to any challenge you face.
Introduction to Design Thinking
Got a problem? Design thinking can help you to create a game-changing solution. Learn new ways of thinking, acting, and interacting that help you create innovative products, services, and processes.
Empathize and Prototype
Master techniques for gaining customer empathy through a series of hands-on exercises that guide you from synthesis to prototyping and testing.
Innovation Strategy: How to Find Inspiration
Inspiration isn’t something you wait for. It’s something you work for. Master tools to seek the inspiration that will turn unknowns into radically new products and services.
Graduate or Professional Program - which is right for you?
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
80–120 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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Instructors
Perry Klebhan
Adjunct Professor and Director of Executive Education, Stanford d.school
Jeremy Utley
Adjunct Professor and Director of Executive Education, Stanford d.school
David Kelley
Founder, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University (Stanford d.school); Founder and Chairman, IDEO
Kathryn Segovia
Lecturer, Stanford d.school
FAQ
Take online courses in marketing innovation from Stanford University. Hone your ability to generate and implement new ideas and lead innovative teams and organizations. Taught by world-class Stanford faculty, these courses are engaging, interactive, and full of useful practices and strategies that you can apply immediately:
