In eCornell Certificate Programs
Great design isn’t just about aesthetics. It’s also about understanding your audience and their needs. Whether you’re designing a website, a physical product, or a customer experience, design thinking is an innovative approach to design that involves applied creativity, prototyping, and experimentation.
In this program, you will master a robust, human-centered approach to designing and improving products, experiences, and systems at any scale. Working with a team of student peers, you’ll start by defining the problem or challenge you seek to address and then gather key user insights that will help you develop powerful personas and 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. You will also have the opportunity to bring the group project and your peer relationships with you as you move through each of the courses in this program.
The courses are best experienced when working with a project team of peers in the course. Please be prepared to be placed into a group to complete the majority of the coursework in this certificate program.