Certified Design Thinking Professional

Creative solutions to complex challenges

Start your innovation journey with the certification as a Design Thinking Professional!
In just four weeks, you will learn in a hands-on way how to develop creative solutions for complex challenges and successfully implement your ideas in a team. Be inspired by our experienced trainers and become an expert in human-centered innovation!

Creative solutions for complex challenges

Would you like to drive innovation in your company? Are you interested in developing new concepts, services, and products?

Whether you are an innovation manager, freelancer, or someone interested in structured innovation methods – the certification as a Human-Centered Professional in Design Thinking is your launchpad!

Immediately applicable and practice-oriented

In our training program to become a Fraunhofer-certified Design Thinking Professional, you will learn the phases and methods of Design Thinking in a practical format and apply them directly.
The focus is on virtual learning to support remote-working teams.

Through interactive exercises, you will go through the entire Design Thinking process – from the initial problem to an innovative solution – and apply the learned methods independently.
Our experienced trainers support you in the remote implementation of Design Thinking methods.

Interactive and reflective

The four-week program is directly applicable and designed to be practical. You take on the role of the Design Thinker and develop solutions for a given challenge. At the same time, you reflect on the role of Design Thinking facilitators and identify challenges in your organization.

By booking this training, you become part of the UXcellence Hub, an exclusive platform for networking and continuous learning beyond the course.

Learning Modules

1. Introduction to Design Thinking

  • Advantages, goals and purpose DT
  • Known success stories
  • History
  • Phases
  • Remote implementation
  • Which topics is it suitable for?
  • Mindset
  • Key elements
  • Most common problems and misunderstandings with DT

2. Empathize: Get to know the target group

  • Relevance & Goal
  • Biases
  • Methodes
  • Examples
  • Interviews
  • Target group, stakeholders
  • What you should pay attention to remotely

3. Define: Structuring Findings

  • Importance
  • Methodes
  • Clustering
  • Empathy Map
  • Problem Statement
  • HMW-Question
  • Stakeholder Needs

4. Ideate: Develop ideas

  • Creative, collaborative work
  • »The Obvious«
  • Finding ideas
  • Crazy 8
  • Remote conversion
  • Clustering ideas
  • Dot Voting
  • Innovation portfolio: Prioritise ideas

5. Prototype: Making ideas tangible

  • Relevance & Goal
  • 30 Circles
  • 2 Minute Madness
  • Storyboards
  • Paper Prototyping

6. Evaluate:Get feedback

  • Relevance & Goal
  • Think aloud in remote Context
  • Get test results
  • Feedback Capture Grid: Sorting findings

7. Transfer into practice & support to get started

  • Challenges in your own company on site and remotely
  • Own experience of taking participants along in the creative process
  • Guiding questions
  • Practice pitch
  • Set up Miroboard / Powerpoint
  • Tools and resources for remote implementation