Design Thinking for UX Design Managers

Course details

If you’re responsible for designing solutions to complex problems, design thinking has a lot to offer, particularly if you manage a UX team. In this course—which is designed to meet the needs of both new and seasoned managers—instructor Nevien Magdy shows you how to enable your design teams and their stakeholders to more effectively leverage the insights of the design thinking model to promote innovation and product design.

Gather practical, easy-to-apply strategies to deploy design thinking dynamics, phases, and best practices with a distributed team. Nevien covers the importance of getting actionable feedback from your customers and managing stakeholder expectations more efficiently. Along the way, find out how to boost innovation—from concept ideation to prototyping, testing, and beyond.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Make headway against the current

1. Design Thinking Fundamentals

02 - Stages of the design thinking process
03 - The how might we framework
04 - The round robin concept

2. The Exploration Stage

05 - Ethnographic research
06 - Participatory research
07 - Evaluative research

3. The Understanding Stage

08 - People interactions with systems
09 - Patterns and priorities
10 - Framing the problem

4. The Implementation Stage

11 - Concept ideation
12 - Modeling and prototyping
13 - Design rationale

Conclusion

14 - Proving results and moving forward