AGDA Design Thinking Experience

4 April, 2018

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Based on Empathy, Collaboration and Experimentation, Design Thinking is a practical and human-centred approach that accelerates innovation by solving complex problems. 

Using a lens that allows you to make better decisions under a new mindset, guests will learn to envision opportunities by asking the right (and sometimes the toughest) questions to understand real human needs. Guests will learn to build to think and ultimately become an innovator that faces risks and learns from mistakes, leading you to real and impactful solutions.

By testing and iterating solutions, you can deliver appropriate, actionable and tangible strategies that cover three lenses: desirability from people, financial viability and organisational and technological feasibility. The solutions that emerge at the end of the human-centred design process should hit the overlap of these three lenses, creating real innovation.

The Experience

This highly energetic 3-day program will give you a practical level of understanding on the Design Thinking principles, key tools and terminology. This is a hands-on course, where you will be learning by doing, one of our core beliefs.

Our program is based on the three core values of Design Thinking: Empathy, Collaboration and Experimentation. During the three-day program, students will work on two real projects using the Design Thinking approach, guided by our facilitators.

What you’ll learn

• How to successfully innovate by experiencing two real Design Thinking Projects;
• A mindset to solve complex problems;
• Practical research tools to drive empathy in your projects, how to co-create and collaborate with customers and how to prototype any idea, be it a product, a service or a business.

How you’ll feel

• Better equipped to collaborate effectively with a diverse group of people;
• Better equipped to learn from your internal and external customers and how to prototype quickly generate innovative solutions;
• Confidence in your creative skills;
• Confidence to apply the key tools to solve any challenge you may face.

Design Thinking Values

To understand Design Thinking and start working or living under its principles, we need to internalise three core values: Empathy, Collaboration and Experimentation.

Internalising these three values means changing mental and work models, as we are forced to get up from our chairs, go out on the streets, work in groups, co-create, listen to each other, build upon someone else’s idea and, of course, experiment and take risks.

Investment
Student – $1,000
Educator & Startup – $1,800
Corporate – $2,500

Dates:
Melbourne: Apr 4th – 6th

Other dates:

Sydney: Mar 19th – 21th
Brisbane: Apr 17th – 19th

Duration:
3 days