Design Thinking
This course delivered by Edraak and the American University in Cairo offers a creative approach to problem solving and design thinking.
Description
Design evolved from just being lines in drawing champers to be an integral part of the discussions of the management boards of companies. Nowadays, many organizations desiers to learn design thinking to solve its most complex challenges and to push innovation inside the organisation.
This course delivered by Edraak and the American University in Cairo offers a creative approach to problem solving. You will learn design thinking tools and techniques. You will also learn how to think as a user-centered designer. As soon as you join the course, you will start your learning journey which you will practice design thinking and how to use this appraoch to design innovation solutions for applied and social challenges in the enterpreneurship world.
If you have a passion for problem solving or business and social innovation, this course is totally for you.
Join us in this exciting journey which can form a new beginning for your life, or at least your intellectual life.
What you'll learn
- Overcoming obstacles to innovation
- Exploring opportunities for innovation
- Using empathy and participatory design approaches to gain insights to the deep needs of the users
- Designing innovative solutions that offers a great value to the user
- Designing and testing prototypes
- Improving your idea to be a sustainable user-based product
Syllabus
Unit One: Exploration
Unit Two: Design Research
Unit Three: Insights
Unit Four: Prototypes
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Sponsored by
Edraak
Instructors
Fady MichelFady is an Associate Professor of Practice at The American University in Cairo. He is currently the director of Scientific Thinking at AUC, with a teaching focus on critical thinking and design thinking. He is the founder of ERGO Design, a strategy, and innovation consulting firm, tackling business. Fady is the executive lead of the Design Thinking initiative at AUC.
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Difficulty:
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced- Lifetime access
- Graded exams
- Certificate of completion