Design Thinking and the Double Diamond in Practice
A foundations course in design thinking: how to empathize honestly, define a problem you can actually act on, generate and converge on ideas deliberately using the Double Diamond, and test rough concepts with real people before investing in a finished solution.
By the end of this course you can run a complete design-thinking cycle on a real problem: empathize honestly, define a testable problem, generate and converge on ideas, develop a concept, and test it with real people while avoiding the most common ways the process gets applied as empty theater.
Curriculum
3 Levels · 30 LessonsEach Lesson may include a Quiz
Each Level may include an Exam
Complete the available Lessons
Pass all configured Quizzes and Exams
Locked activities open only after their prerequisites are met
Completed Course progress automatically counts toward the Career Path when this Course belongs to a Mission.
- Builds a repeatable process directly on top of the UX and visual design foundations courses
- Grounded in the UK Design Council's Double Diamond and IDEO's design-thinking practice
- Every lesson ends with a worked example you can practice on
- Sets up the later Research, Personas, and Usability Testing courses without overlapping them
- Beginners who have completed the first two foundations courses and now want a structured problem-solving process
- Career switchers building a practical, repeatable design method
- Product managers and engineers who want to run or join design-thinking sessions effectively
- Students preparing for further research- and process-focused coursework
- 30 short, focused lessons across 3 progressive levels
- A graded quiz after every lesson and a 12-question exam per level
- One continuous worked example (a language-learning app's drop-off problem) threaded through every level
- No design software required — this course is conceptual, building process and judgment first
Awarded after the Course's configured completion requirements are met.