Use Design Thinking Part 2: Prototype your Design

You will concentrate on testing a great design idea. Understand the process of design thinking - from refining your ideas to the final testing stage using activities throughout. It’s important to test and refine ideas because it’s the most useful way to check that your idea meets the needs of the users, bringing them into the process and onboard with your design, making your final design successful, whether it’s a process, a product or a concept.   

Use Design Thinking Pt 2: Prototype your Design

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In this course, you will

Identify an opportunity
Identify an area in your business to prototype a design idea as well as develop a plan with the support of your project advisor.
Use the right methods
Gain a clear understanding of using design prototyping and apply a range of templates and toolkits to your guided project.
Develop relevant skills
Develop and improve a selection of key skills relevant to using prototyping designs in your business.

5 steps to success

16-20 hours over 6+ weeks

Step 1 • 2-3 hrs
Find an opportunity
Identify an area in your business in which to protoype a design and develop a plan with the support of your project advisor.

Step 2 • 5-6 hrs
Project preparation
Research, assess, and reflect on possible approaches you can take, then draft an actionable project plan you can talk through with your project advisor. Fine-tune it based on their feedback.

Step 3 • 6-8 hrs
Complete your project
Work through your plan to achieve the outcome(s) defined in your project goal set at the beginning of your course.

Step 4 • 2 hrs
Review how it went
Discuss the results with your project advisor and highlight areas of success that your business can scale-up and use with a greater impact in the future.

Step 5 • 1 hr
Showcase
Use the STAR (Situation, Task, Action and Results) model to illustrate your achievements and key conclusions, then share them with your team.

Help is always available

Project advisor support

Invaluable insider insights from your project advisor.

Up to 3 hours of 1-2-1 support.

Guides & resources

Switch on to our online library to access authentic case studies, proven business models, and practice scenarios that will help you test and deliver your plan.

Up to 4 hours of content.

Examples of tools and templates you will be introduced to

"How Might We...?"

Apply this powerful questioning technique to help you search for solutions in unlikely places.

Design Breaking

Learn how to use prototypes to effectively test products and services.

Storyboarding

Create a visual journey to help guide your testers through a user's experience of your design.

Empathy Maps

Understand what your users feel, think, say, and do while testing your prototype.

Power skills you will develop

Analysis

Analyze user feedback to create a clear understanding of how to improve your prototype.

Collaboration

Work together with colleagues/peers to analyze user research and develop prototypes. Work directly with users or role play users when delivering prototypes, taking their feedback into consideration as you iterate your prototype.

Communication

Clearly define the goals and objectives of your design thinking project. Communicate effectively in user testing settings, tailoring your ideas to a specific user type. Explain who benefits from successful design thinking and communicate that in your final summary.

Creativity

Generate novel or original ideas and solutions for user needs. Iterate and refine ideas or solutions based on user feedback. Consider multiple user perspectives to develop informative prototypes that result in feedback.

Critical thinking

Identify, collect and make sense of user research, though the development of a prototype. Develop a prototype testing plan that will gather information needed to refine and validate your design. Select appropriate, useful content to include in user interviews, prototypes and feedback, using new evidence to change and iterate new processes or product.

On completion you will have

Discovered ways to protoype a design

Demonstrated live project experience around a key opportunity in your business that benefits from using design, process or product development.

Transferable skills to use across your business

Gained proficiency in critical skills fundamental to prototyping designs that supports your career development.

Resources you can turn to again and again

A structured business plan with templates that you can download and use in future projects.

Credly badge

A Credly badge that certifies your competence in prototyping designs.

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