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Cooper Crash Course: Design Thinking in 3 Steps (Udemy.com)

Understand your audience, envision a creative solution, and test your prototype by Cooper Professional Education

4.5
( 54 Reviews )

Created by: Cooper Professional Education

Produced in 2017

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What you will learn

  • Apply the design thinking framework to solve problems more creatively
  • Create prototypes to test your idea early, before making a big investment of time and money
  • Understand problems from the customer's perspective
  • Guide groups to effectively brainstorm innovative ideas
  • Plan and conduct effective design research, including user interviews
  • Make and use a storyboard to communicate your design ideas
  • Identify your design research objectives
  • Make a plan to iterate your idea forward

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Overall Score : 90 / 100

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Course Description

In this course, you'll learn design thinking from the people who helped invent it. Cooper Professional Education is a team of educators within Designit, a global strategic design firm. Our coaches help organizations across the globe learn and adopt a human-centered approach to innovation.
Our team formed in 2001 as a professional development initiative at Cooper, one of the first interaction design firms. Cooper was founded by Sue and Alan Cooper, a pioneer of the modern computing era who created the programming language Visual Basic.
This course is taught by Alan Cooper, Sanskriti Ayyar, and Teresa Brazen (Senior Director of Cooper Professional Education).
Through this interactive course, you'll learn a different approach to strategic problem solving so that you can create experiences customers love. You'll practice design thinking on a real-life project and equip yourself with a powerful set of tools to become more collaborative, innovative, and effective.
You'll learn:
  • how to understand the problem from your customer's perspective;
  • how to effectively brainstorm innovative ideas;
  • and how to create prototypes to test your new ideas before investing a lot of time and money.
We designed this class for people who've heard about design thinking but who don't know exactly what it is or how it works. If you want to start learning about design thinking while working on a real project that you can add to your portfolio, this is the course for you.
This class is geared to a wide range of professionals, whether you're a business leader wanting to better understand what the designers at your company do, or a generalist wanting to break out of solving problems in the same old way.

Music used throughout the course: "Rainbows" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech .com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.Who this course is for:
  • Individuals who have heard about design thinking but don't know exactly what it is or how it works.
  • Those who need to refresh and solidify their understanding of design thinking.
  • Business leaders wanting to better understand what the designers at your company do, or how design can help your company achieve their goals
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    Cooper Professional Education

  • 4.5 Rating
  • 54 Reviews

Cooper Professional Education is a team of educators within Designit that helps organizations across the globe learn and adopt a human-centered approach to innovation.

Our team formed in 2001 as a professional development initiative at Cooper, one of the first interaction design firms. Cooper was founded by Sue and Alan Cooper, a pioneer of the modern computing era who created the programming language Visual Basic. Methods like goal-directed design, design persona, and pair design were born in our offices, and we wrote industry-standard books on design practice like About Face.

In 2017, Cooper became part of Designit, a global strategic design firm that specializes in creating high-impact products, services, systems, and spaces that people love. Designit is a part of Wipro, one of the largest technology, consulting, and business companies in the world.

We're thrilled to join our new global family and bundle our forces on a joint mission: helping companies innovate and transform. And as an integral team within Designit, we can now offer education by experienced teachers under a new name. Today, we offer education services in North America, South America, Europe, India, and Australia, and we're excited to help even more people as we grow.Alan Cooper co-founded Cooper in 1992. He is widely known for his role in humanizing technology through his groundbreaking work in software design.
He is also the author of the books About Face: The Essentials of In

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By Mastura Binte Ishak

Yes. I am able to create a storyboard and get lots of ideas from brainstorming the project. It is very useful in work as well as personal use.

By Wai Yew Loke

The course was not only instructive and easy to understand, the various exercises also helped provide me with some "hands-on" experience.

By Choo Thiam Hock

Yes, this course is very good and I definitely recommend it to all my colleagues. It also allows me to complete the course and achieve the outline objectives in my own pace. Due to my irregular work schedule, I am glad to say that I can do it as and when my time permits. Excellence and thank you.

By Evie Fan

One of the best concepts! Perfectly delivered! Very invigorating and educational! The transcripts are concise and clear! Best 10 bucks I have spent!

By Ahmed Mahmoud

This is really valuable to every person who needs to understand people, come up with the best solutions, think and develop ideas . From one of the most valuable courses i had take.

By Jacek Tomaszewski

Very well prepared course, good pace, interesting narration, good structure and engaging exercises. I strongly recommend!

By Alisson Roberto Pirola

O curso explica de maneira bem didática os princípios do Design Thinking. Os exercícios são uma ótima sacada para cativar o aluno a continuar até o final.

By Rachel Martyn

Very practical and easy to follow, provides a good level of understanding that can immediately be applied in real life projects.

By Lars Bröcker

Having finished the course, I feel informed on what the Design Thinking approach is and what it aims to accomplish. I would have liked to see more real-world examples of past projects, though.

By Corey Tourand

I’m sure I will be able to utilize the skills and teachings from this coarse at work and at home.

By Mary Cook-Glencross

The instructors were knowledgable. In my situation it was difficult to find enough people to interview.

By Jitesh

I want to heartily thank you for making this course, I am a good thinker now I can think better. Thank you Udemy also. :)

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