Design Thinking

• User experience/UX designers
• Marketers and designers
• Product managers
• Engineers
• Program and project managers
• Consultants
• Systems analysts
• Entrepreneurs involved in product conception
• Individual contributors, managers and leaders at all levels of an organization who are involved in the design, development, or improvement of products, services, and infrastructure

• Design Thinking Certificate from Cornell University College of Engineering
• 144 Professional Development Hours (14.4 CEUs)

In this program, you will master a robust, human-centered approach to designing and improving products, experiences and systems at any scale. Working either on your own or with a team of your choosing, you’ll start by defining the problem or challenge you seek to address and then gather key user insights and emotions that will help you develop personas and user narratives. From there, you’ll move into idea generation and rapid prototyping for potential solutions and improvements. Informed by testing and analysis, you’ll learn to iterate on and refine your prototype using design thinking methodology to ultimately generate a rigorous, viable design solution.

Throughout the courses, you will leverage design thinking to create a constant interplay of intuitive and data-driven decision making.

In order to be successful in this program students will need to be familiar with descriptive statistics visualization such as graphing in excel or another comparable application.