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Leading Design is a supportive community nurturing design leadership through inspiring and engaging events, conferences and retreats.
Design thinking encourages exploring future products and services by making, testing and iterating on potential solutions. It leads to uncovering interesting, elegant and unique solutions that add value to an organisation and its audiences.
By the end of the day, attendees will be armed with the creative confidence to move from delivering designs to becoming opportunity spotters and problem seekers.
The team had an energised day learning new ways to get creative. The practical skills we learned are being put to use with great results.
What you’ll learn
We’ll follow a shared design challenge throughout the day and, through hands-on activities, learn the core skills used in design thinking.
What we’ll cover
- Introduction to design thinking
- Framing your problem with ‘How might we . . .?’ statements
- Research and empathy to uncover user needs
- Analysing and synthesising research inputs
- Generating ideas and ideation
- Critiquing ideas to push them further
- Pilots and prototyping
- Setting up and measuring design experiments
- Pitching your ideas
Who should attend
Design thinking isn’t just for designers. This training is suitable for a mix of product owners, designers, developers, and others who need to create breakthrough ideas.
Meet your host
Chris How
Chris is our Head of Experience Design. He has 20+ years of experience working with clients to develop and deliver breakthrough ideas on mission-critical projects. He’s run this training course with hundreds of participants.
Chris is passionate about design innovation and has spoken at UX Scotland, Pixel Pioneers and Leading Design London on the topic. He is a guest lecturer at the University of Greenwich and Sussex University on design thinking.
Book your design thinking training
Contact our team to discuss your organisation’s needs. We’ll reply within a business day.
Pricing
| Group size | Price per person + VAT |
|---|---|
| 6 people | £500 |
| 7–8 people | £440 |
| 9–10 people | £400 |
Minimum session cost £3,000 +VAT. We offer discounts for larger groups, charities, not-for-profits, and educational institutions.
Training the Clearleft way
Our training is always adapted to the needs of your team.
Ahead of the training, we’ll talk to you about your specific needs so we can target the content to the skills, experience and needs of your team.
Tailored
We’ll work with you to shape the training to the size of the group and your team’s level of knowledge, customised to your specific challenges.
In-person or online
We can run training at your offices, our studio in Brighton, or fully remote for distributed teams, arranging a date that works for you.
Road-tested
We regularly apply the techniques you'll learn in your training as part of our client services.
Follow up
Training is only as good as the change it creates. We’ll follow up with attendees once they’ve had a chance to use their new skills.
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