DESIGN THINKING

The Co F.A.B. Lab provides training and consultancy services that provide innovative approaches to Business Models which has a focus on human-centered outcomes to a variety of challenges. The Co. F.A.B. Lab has established a series of short courses in Design Thinking that intertwines Design and Business together for successful outcomes.

Design Thinking is all about empathy, understanding why and who you are designing for, it’s about discovery and prototyping. It's about finding new directions to survive and thrive in unprecedented change around the world. We explore the five steps of Design Thinking; Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and test. Design Thinking is about empathically understanding the users and asking the right questions, leading towards creative prototypes. The foundations of Design Thinking enable businesses to be successful in all aspects of their practice.

The Co F.A.B. Lab's goal is to find clarity, to navigate ambiguity, and create sustainable systems that move with the nature of business through the use of techniques and tools of Design Thinking. With a focus on Human-Centred outcomes and an empathically understanding of the end-users needs.

The results are consistently ambitious, inspirational, bold, surprising, creative – and always collaborative.

It’s a new way of creatively exploring new outcomes and opportunities that are focused on user needs.

Bite Size NNR Series Courses on offer:

800-000612 Introduction to Design Thinking - Introduction to creative problem solving.

800-000616 Design Thinking Course - Innovation - a competitive advantage.

800-000617 Design Thinking Course - Ideation to realisation.

800-000613 Design Thinking Course – Design Thinking tools

Design Thinking Certificate:

This Statement of Attendance will provide you with a deeper understanding of Design Thinking. This short course of 7 weeks has been designed to unlock the creative mind, challenge ideas and concepts and create the ability to apply these skills to problem-solving. This is an applied approach where you will learn by doing, along the way you will unpack the mysterious connection between design and value growth while capturing what it means to have a human-centered approach.

This approach to business practice has become a necessary element of success.

800-000617

Ideation to realisation

Ideation is the Design Thinking stage that forms ideas and converts concepts into prototypes with the possibility of being developed. It is the art of visualisation to Ideate, iterate, and prototype. We explore convergent & divergent thinking, create key skills in brainstorming to problem-solving through creativity.

Outcomes:

• Apply ideation tools to generate ideas.
• Deep-dive into the ideas that best meet the end-user.
• Quickly build prototypes and test the market
• Review, change and test again.

10 Hour course

Design Thinking Certificate

Use Design Thinking to tackle the most challenging problems. This course will build on skills learned in the business world and deepen your understanding of Design Thinking Tools and understand the ability to apply these skills to real challenges that are human centered focused. This will allow for the process to be adapted across a business where there are challenges, new business models or new line of product/service.

Module 1: Getting Started.

Module 2: Deep dive into what matters to your end users.

Module 3: Solve challenges applying Design Thinking tools.

Module 4: Apply Ideation methods to new ideas and identify the key ideas to test.

Module 5: Build prototypes of ideas to test and rebuild to find solutions.

Module 6: Redesign.

Module 7: Course Conclusion.

7 week course on the Design Thinking Process