What you will learn
- User-centered research skills to gain user empathy through interviews and observations
- Strategies to understand user context to identify and verify business problems
- Ideation and visualization techniques to generate targeted and creative solutions
- Methods for evaluating and applying user feedback from testing models and prototypes to identify preferred solutions
Program Overview
Expert instruction
4 graduate-level courses
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
6 months
8 - 12 hours per week
Discounted price: $1,213.20
Pre-discounted price: $1,348USD
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Courses in this program
RITx's Design Thinking MicroMasters® Program
- Design Thinking Fundamentals
- Design Thinking: Empathizing to Understand the Problem
- Design Thinking: Ideation, Iteration and Communication
- Design Thinking: Prototyping and User Testing
- Certificate & Credit Pathways
- Job Outlook
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Program endorsements
Autodesk is becoming increasingly aware of the value of design thinking as we deepen our design practice, and truly integrate it with engineering, product management, and data analysis. Design methods are helping us better see, understand, and act on our customer’s deeper needs and motivations. Tools for better framing problems, interacting with customers and among teams, and communicating solutions are critical for unlocking the business’s potential for growth and driving value in the world. New hires that have exposure and applied experience with these methods have a leg up.
Adam Menter , Business Architect for Customer Success
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