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Intro to design thinking

Learn to Solve Problems through Design Thinking Principles

About This Course

Design Thinking has gained momentum in the world’s leading companies, such as Netflix, Apple, Google, HBO, Samsung, World Bank, and General Electric. They have embraced Design Thinking to improve their customer experiences. At its heart, design thinking is a process for solving problems by prioritizing the consumer’s needs above all else. It relies on observing, with empathy, how people interact with their environments, and employs an iterative, hands-on approach to creating innovative solutions.

We’ve designed this program to give you a basic understanding of the foundations of Design Thinking skills and a practical understanding of the proven creative problem solving process.

During this session, our faculty team of design experts will introduce you to the basics of Design Thinking and the key principles of empathizing, defining, ideating, prototyping, and testing solutions to problems.

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Course Details

  • $129
  • 3 Hours Estimated Length
  • In-person Workshop
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Who's It For

Anyone who finds themselves “stuck in the problem” and looking for a fresh approach to creatively solve tough problems.
  • Marketing professionals who wish to augment their understanding of creating solutions that their customers actually need.
  • Professionals from customer-centric sectors like Travel, Hospitality, Education who would like to learn how to create delightful customer experiences
  • Aspiring entrepreneurs who are looking to create impactful new organizations and businesses.
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Learning Outcomes

In this short course, participants will:

  • Establish a common language and repeatable process for creative problem solving.
  • Practice the skills of design thinking through hands-on activities.
  • Apply methods that will help you turn your customer needs into human-centered solutions.
  • Use proven ideation techniques to quickly generate, develop, and test new concepts.
Meet The Instructors
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John Tichenor
PhD – Professor of Management
Before coming to Stetson in 1996, John worked in applied social research settings for the East Carolina University School of Medicine, the State of Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration, the Vanderbilt University Institute for Public Policy Studies and the Florida Office of Comprehensive Health Planning.
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Krista Franco
MFA – Professor of Theater Arts

Krista Franco is Program Director and Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and serves as the program’s resident designer and production manager. In addition to technical production and design courses, she teaches a course in Arts Entrepreneurship. She has held faculty and designer positions at Washington and Lee University, Sweet Briar College, Randolph College and Connecticut College. Krista has designed for the Athens Theatre, the School of Theatre at Florida State University, and Ole Miss Theatre & Film as a visiting guest artist. Franco has also worked as a scenic artist at several prestigious regional theatre companies, including the Utah Shakespearean Theatre Festival, Goodspeed Musicals and Yale Repertory Theatre. In 2006, she co-founded Endstation Theatre Company, which produces regional new work, site specific theatre and unique theatrical interpretations each summer in central Virginia. She runs the company’s Professional Apprentice Program and recruits students from colleges and universities throughout the country to collaborate with Endstation’s core group of theatre artists. Franco continues to sit on the board of directors, while also serving as the company’s production manager and resident scenic designer. She is a professional member of The United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) where she is the Vice Chair for Design & Technology Committee.

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Chaz Underriner
PhD – Professor of Digital Arts
Chaz Underriner (b. 1987 in Texas, USA) is a composer, intermedia artist and performer based in DeLand, Florida. Most of Underriner’s work revolves around the notions of landscape and portraiture in the context of experimental music. He has composed works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, chamber and symphony orchestras, jazz combos, electronics, film, dance and choir.
Course Agenda

This course is a short three-hour in-person “hands-on” workshop to be held at the Stetson University Deland campus, classroom TBD.

Session 1

9 am-12 pm.

  • Light lunch and networking afterward.
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