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What problem should you be working on? Finding a big problem to solve can help you find opportunities to make a big impact through design. Starting at the beginning of the design process, you’ll discover strategies for creatively brainstorming problems to work on and challenges to address. You’ll learn commonly used techniques to discover user needs, goals, and values that lead to untapped opportunities for design. In this course, you’ll learn techniques for unearthing ideas based on real world settings and learn how to turn your observations into a concrete point of view as a designer.
Whether you are a student, a designer or an entrepreneur, join this course and develop your creativity methods and innovation attitude while exploring the human-centred design-approach.
Welcome to the Macromedia University Design Thinking MOOC.
The Macromedia University MOOC Design Thinking is about understanding and implementing the methodology of Design Thinking. You will learn how Design Thinking uses creative, human centered techniques as a strategic approach to stimulate innovation. At MHMK, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, we believe that human needs and experience should drive innovation – not technology. Being a school whose graduates will engage in designing the digital landscape surrounding us, we like to share our conviction of a good, decent and ethical way of creating tomorrows products and services.
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What to Expect
The Macromedia MOOC Design Thinking links theoretical frames with practice. You will look into fundamentals like historical and theoretical aspects of design, design models and design systems. You will gain deeper insights into the Design Thinking methodology and the human-centered design approach. You will learn how to apply teamwork and communications skills, and you will hear about creativity methods and visualization tools in the context of strategic design. And last but not least, the Macromedia MOOC Design Thinking will teach you how to evaluate ideas and concepts and why an innovation attitude and intercultural communication competence is crucial for a successful implementation.
Week by week we invite you to meet academics, professionals and students, who are using Design Thinking in the creative industries as well as in management in order to solve problems of great complexity. Each week is divided into three or four lectures/chapters. Each lecture is divided in several lessons/units, which are usually not longer than 5 mInutes. The lessons are made of video material, slides, additional reading material and tasks.
Expect to view approx. 80 minutes of lectures per week which sums up to altogether 5 hours per week incl. self-study time.
Course Structure
Course Structure:
WEEK ONE - 15 April - 21 April 2015:
• Design Thinking MOOC introduction (Prof. Oliver Szasz)
• Prologue Week One (Prof. Oliver Szasz)
• Design Today (Prof. Tanja Schmitt-Fumian)
• Design Models and Design Theory (Prof. Juergen Faust)
• Design as a Discipline (Silvio Barta)
• Design Systems (Prof. Juergen Faust)
WEEK TWO - 21 April - 28 April 2015:
• Prologue Week Two (Prof. Oliver Szasz)
• Human Centered Design and Research Methods (Astrid Thomaser)
• Design Thinking Process (Thomas Stegmann)
• Experience Design (Prof. Oliver Szasz)
• Problem Space Definition and Wicked Problems (Prof. Oliver T. Hellriegel)
WEEK THREE - 28 April - 05 May 2015:
• Prologue Week Three (Prof. Oliver Szasz)
• Creativity and Ideation (Johann Knott & Bret Sheridan)
• Strategic and Concept Design (Prof. Lars Grau)
• Multidisciplinary Teams and Communications Skills (Gary York)
• Storytelling (Prof. van Wyngaarden)
WEEK FOUR - 05 May - 12 May 2015:
• Prologue Week Four (Prof. Oliver Szasz)
• Prototyping and Testing (Paul Neervoort)
• Business and Innovation (Prof. Dr. Alyosh Agarwal)
• Intercultural Communication (Prof. Dr. Barbara Stelzner)
• Design Thinking MOOC Wrap-Up (Prof. Oliver Szasz)
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Why this MOOC is interdisciplinary
Originating in the Design Department of MHMK, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Munich, the Macromedia MOOC Design Thinking is emphasizing the rewarding link between management and creativity. To us, managing creativity means drawing on various findings and multidiscliplinary methods, yet guiding them through standardized and verifiable management procedures. Besides Design and Art history, the background of our MOOC team therefore ranges from business, psychology and human resource to transmedia, visualization, narration, and journalism, for instance. We will thus be able to discuss Design Thinking from various perspectives.
Learning Outcomes
Our MOOC will help you answer the following questions:
1. What is Design Thinking? Which benefits may I expect when implementing it as a management strategy?
2. How can innovation be systematically triggered ?
How can I implement Design Thinking into my own projects? 3. Talking about the potential of Design Thinking – what kind of best practices are there ?
4. What kind of team do I need to in order to initialize a Design Thinking process?
Prior Knowledge
No prior knowledge of Design Thinking is needed in order to attend the MOOC. Interest in creative techniques, innovation and management is welcome. - You don't know what human centered design, strategic design or participatory innovation culture is? - Great, you'll learn it here. - You are a business development specialist? - Great, we hope to inspire you. Please feel free to help us inspire others by sharing interesting links, events and projects on our Facebook page.
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In the free online course Design Thinking - Design Research and Analysis you will learn about research and analysis as part of the design process. You will learn about interviewing techniques as part of the design research phase and techniques you can use to analyse user stories.<br /><br />The course begins by introducing you to research for design. You will learn about the main difference between market research and design research. You will learn about questions you should consider when designing and how to frame these questions for interviewing. You will also learn about a user's mental model and what it is.<br /><br />Next, you will learn how to analyse the information obtained during the research phase. You will learn about seeing themes from user stories and about a customer journey map. You will learn what a persona is, what it represents and why you need to create one. You will learn about scenarios and how they complement personas. You will learn about insight statements and why the 'How might we' questions can help reframe your insight statements. Finally, you will learn about what a design strategy statement is and how it can be used.<br /><br />This free online course would be of great interest to those looking to learn more about designing with a people centred mind set.<br /><br />Perquisites: You will need to have completed the previous course Introduction to Design Thinking and People Centred Design. <br />
In this free online course Design Thinking - Generating Ideas, Stories and Prototypes you will learn about innovating products from ideas and idea generation techniques. You will also learn about creating concepts and storyboards, and about prototyping your design. <br /><br />The course begins by introducing you to methods used by designers for generating ideas. You will learn about the top 5 idea generating techniques such as brainstorming and how they work. You will learn about bundling your ideas together and creating a concept.<br /><br />Next, you will be introduced to the storytelling approach to design. You will learn about creating storyboards to visualize your concept and how storyboards can help you with the design process. Finally, you will learn about prototyping, what it is and how it helps your design development. You will learn about paper prototyping and how helpful it is as part of the design process.<br /><br />This free Alison Course will be of great interest to professionals working in the areas of product and service design and who would like to learn more about generating ideas, stories and prototypes as part of the design process.<br /><br />Prerequisites: The learner will need to have completed the previous course in 'Introduction to Design Thinking and People Centred Design' and 'Design Thinking - Design Research and Analysis'.
In this free online course Design Thinking - Introduction to Usability Testing you will learn about usability testing, how to pitch a design and how to ensure prototype fidelity.<br /><br />The course begins by introducing you to usability testing, how it should be carried out and who should be your usability testers. You will learn about debriefing and recording the results of your usability tests. You will also learn about what design freedom is and who should evaluate your design.<br /><br />Next, you will learn about the importance of debriefing following the usability tests. You will learn about prototype fidelity and how it changes as the design progresses. You will learn about pitching your design and what a design rational is.<br /><br />This free Alison Course will be of great interest to professionals working in the areas of product and service design and who would like to learn more about testing, refining and pitching during the design process.
By Leticia Britos Cavagnaro
This course provides an overview of the Design Thinking process and tools used for business innovation.
This course is for K-12 teachers who are looking for creative and innovative ways to engage their students in solving real-world problems through the design thinking process.
How do we prepare K-12 students and learning communities to be as successful as possible? If future jobs require creativity, problem-solving and communication, how do we teach these skills in meaningful ways? How do we bring together passionate school leaders to create systemic solutions to educational challenges? Come explore these questions and more in Design Thinking for Learning and Leading.
The course is organized into three, two-week sections that combine design thinking content with real-world education examples, as well as opportunities for participants to apply concepts in their own setting:
- Meet Design Thinking: overview of different approaches to design thinking, understanding the importance and exploring the potential for bringing design thinking into schools; hands-on design challenge to explore the process.
- Design Thinking in the Classroom: real-world examples of how and why PK-12 classrooms use the design thinking process to enhance student learning; hands-on design challenge to experiment with the process in your own classroom or workplace.
- Design Thinking in Our Schools: real-world examples of how and why PK-12 institutions use the design thinking process to address systemic change; hands-on design challenge to experiment with the process in your own school community.
This course has been funded by Microsoft and is part of the Microsoft K-12 Education Leadership initiative developed to provide resources to K-12 school leaders around the world as they address the unique needs of their schools in a changing educational and technology landscape.
Image: Alyssa Napier. © MIT
Learn how to think like a designer and innovate by getting behind true needs and values and creating better experiences
Combine fundamental concepts with hands-on design challenges to become a better designer.
Inspired by the internet and all things good in design and development. @david_carmona for questions/suggestions
By Paul Kim
In this course you will learn the process of turning ideas into technical solutions. Early learners often need to learn context and the big ideas of a process before diving into the advanced details, and that’s exactly what you’ll get in this course. You’ll build upon your own idea for an app as you learn the process of conducting market research, user-centered design, and front-end web development. By the end of the course, you will have a user-centered design, wireframes and specification for a web app, along with a front-end user interface built with HTML and CSS.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe how software is used to solve problems
- Define application requirements based on user research
- Design effective products using Human Centered Design
- Employ Visual Studio Code and web browser tools in the development of web pages
- Learn the basics of how the Internet works
- Explore various prototyping techniques following industry standard design principles
- Develop basic HTML and CSS webpages
- Once you complete this course, continue onto Building Interactive Prototypes using JavaScript to enhance your prototype as you learn how to use JavaScript to allow interaction on your webpages.
This app development course covers the advanced XAML skills necessary to deliver compelling applications for the Universal Windows Platform. The learner will gain experience developing re-usable XAML components with XAML markup and C# code using Visual Studio 2015. This course teaches both intermediate and advanced tasks that enable the learner to create applications that are testable, well-structured and go well beyond the basic XAML controls in look & feel. This course includes hands-on labs that enables the learner to learn the advanced XAML tasks that are the basic components of an enterprise-class XAML solution that can be deployed to solve real world problems.
Using the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program (ECP) Rubric as a guide, this open course will provide both theoretical concepts and practical...
This course provides you with opportunities to integrate and apply your information security knowledge.
While many people may have already been trained in generic concepts of RBM and M&E systems, applying the theory in practical ways is often a challenge. Many staff also struggle with the very real problem of how to transform the several sheets of paper that contain a programme’s results framework and indicators into a well-functioning system of data collection, analysis, interpretation, reporting and learning. Systematic and robust monitoring and evaluation depends on coherent programme design. Programmes which are coherent are those which have sound internal logic. It also articulates what changes the programme intends to achieve and how it expects to do so. Sound M&E systems are critical for helping organizations understand to what extent they have achieved what they intended to achieve. Specifically, the course will explore some of the foundations for designing and implementing robust monitoring and evaluation systems. This includes the ten step of establishing a monitoring and evaluation system, including the approach of results based management. It will also explore topics such as defining results, developing and selecting key performance indicators, how to collect data and information, grouping indicators and developing output monitoring tools. <br />
Pursuing goals for ambitious teaching and learning requires that students, teachers, and educational leaders learn to work together in new ways. This course engages learners in exploring four leading logics of educational innovation: strategies and approaches to producing and using knowledge to improve educational practice and outcomes at scale, across many classrooms, schools, and systems. These logics include:
- Shell enterprises
- Diffusion enterprises
- Incubation enterprises
- Evolutionary enterprises
Each of these logics has been used successfully in different types of classrooms, schools, and systems, though each also features traps and pitfalls that complicate universal usage.
To understand both their potential and their pitfalls, learners will apply these logics in analyzing exemplary cases of large-scale, practice-focused educational innovation in the US and abroad.
With deeper understandings of these logics, learners will be able to be strategic in designing and managing local innovation. They will also be able to identify external programs and projects that can serve as effective partners in innovation and improvement.
This course is part of the Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement MicroMasters Program offered by MichiganX.
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