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A Practical Approach
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LEARN AND PRACTICE DESIGN THINKING IN THIS 3-DAY INTENSIVE COURSE

Investment

Student – $1,000
Educator & Startup – $1,800
Corporate – $2,500

Coming dates:

Brisbane: Apr 17th – 19th
Sydney: May 14th – 16th
Melbourne: June 5th – 7th

Duration: 3 days

"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size."

Albert Einstein

Design Thinking is a practical and human-centred approach that accelerates innovation by solving complex problems. This approach is based on three core values - EMPATHY, COLLABORATION and EXPERIMENTATION.

Design Thinking provides you with human-centred lenses, allowing you to make better decisions under a new mindset. You will learn to envision opportunities by asking the right (and sometimes the toughest) questions to understand real human needs. You will learn to build to think and ultimately become an innovator that faces risks and learns from mistakes, leading you to real and impactful solutions.

By testing and iterating solutions, you can deliver appropriate, actionable and tangible strategies that cover three lenses: desirable by people, financially viable and organisationally and technologically feasible. The solutions that emerge at the end of the Human-Centred Design process should hit the overlap of these three lenses, creating real innovation.

The Experience

This highly energetic 3-day program will give you a practical level of understanding on the Design Thinking principles, key tools and terminology. This is a hands-on course, where you will be learning by doing, one of our core beliefs.

Our program is based on the three core values of Design Thinking: Empathy, Collaboration and Experimentation. During the three-day program, students will work on two real projects using the Design Thinking approach, guided by our facilitators.

What you'll learn

  • How to successfully innovate by experiencing two real Design Thinking Projects;
  • A mindset to solve complex problems;
  • Practical research tools to drive empathy in your projects, how to co-create and collaborate with customers and how to prototype any idea, be it a product, a service or a business.

How you'll feel

  • Better equipped to collaborate effectively with a diverse group of people;
  • Better equipped to learn from your internal and external customers and how to prototype quickly generate innovative solutions;
  • Confidence in your creative skills;
  • Confidence to apply the key tools to solve any challenge you may face.

Design Thinking Values

To understand Design Thinking and start working or living under its principles, we need to internalise three core values: Empathy, Collaboration and Experimentation.

Internalising these three values means changing mental and work models, as we are forced to get up from our chairs, go out on the streets, work in groups, co-create, listen to each other, build upon someone else's idea and, of course, experiment and take risks.

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Testimonials

Maria Stavrakis

Design Thinking Experience Program - Melbourne

“I am very grateful for having participated in the design thinking experience course. It has introduced me to a new mindset and knowledge that will help me change the way I approach my own business and my clients’ projects. The toolkit provided is very helpful and a great reference tool for the future. This was a great and valuable experience I would highly recommend to anyone that is searching for a new way of working (no matter what work they do) and a new mindset. I left the course feeling inspired and ready to start practicing design thinking in my own business.”

Team



Ricardo Ruffo
Facilitator

As an innovation expert and entrepreneur, Ricardo is a founding partner of various initiatives including Echos - School of Design Thinking, a global innovation lab that aims to create social value through business innovation

He is a consultant and speaker on topics like innovation, entrepreneurship, business design and growth hacking. Specialist in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, with extensions in renowned schools like MIT and Berkeley in the United States. Ricardo studied Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts in New York and Design Thinking by HPI – d.school in Germany.

Juliana Proserpio
Facilitator

Juliana is an entrepreneur and educator. She is the co-founder of Echos, an innovation lab, school and consulting firm focused on innovation projects. Over the last four years, Juliana has worked to develop an innovation ecosystem in Brazil to foster social innovation and Design Thinking.

She has led projects in different industries such as healthcare, construction and not-for-profit organisations.

Juliana speaks on the power of design to create a world we want to live in. She was featured in events such as the Global Innovation Summit in San Jose, California and TEDxMaua in Sao Paulo, Brasil. In 2015, Juliana became a judge at the first William Drenttel Award for Excellence in Design.

Fabio Oliveira
Facilitator

Fabio Oliveira is Country Manager and Facilitator at Echos - School of Design Thinking. Prior to joining Echos, Fabio was Head of Innovation at Kmart Australia, where he developed several projects using Design Thinking in areas such as Store Operations, Payments, Customer Experience and Supply Chain.

Fabio is an advocate of a practical and results-driven approach to corporate innovation, having spoken in several events in Australia.

Since 2011, he is a co-organiser at the Global Service Jam (Melbourne and Sao Paulo editions), the largest Design Thinking and Service Design event in the world.