Hello! Welcome to DT Dojo's Learning Studio, where you can immerse yourself in the fundamentals of design thinking with self-led courses, coaching, and conversations. Here, I’ll show you how to get around and to start learning right away.

When preparing to learn DT-Dojo-style, it’s important to be intentional about how you set yourself up and to cultivate a learner’s mindset. Here are a few things to keep in mind: schedule time, gather supplies, find space, get comfortable.

Today, we kick off our introduction to design thinking and debunk a myth of where innovation comes from, provide a working definition for design thinking, offer a glimpse at the “design process”, and connect the dots to the business value of design.

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This is one of the most well known stories from the Stanford d.school as it clearly shows how design thinking works and illuminates the potential impact of taking a human-centered approach to innovation.

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This story illustrates how the practice of design thinking can lead to enterprise-scale innovation.  Moreover, it reveals the power of designing not just products or services, but experiences as well.

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As you become more familiar with the creative strategies and mindsets behind DT, you realize that they can be applied not just in business but also in life. To illustrate this point, I share a different kind of story (of one of my favorite design projects).

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Congratulations! Today, we wrap up our introduction to design thinking by casting our eyes forward to get a sense of what the path might look like from here and by considering what specific next steps might be.

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Congratulations on completing the Design Thinking Introduction! You’ve taken the first step on your learning journey and that’s worth celebrating. If you’d like a course completion certificate (you’ve earned it!), here’s how to get it.

We kickoff our first "mini design project" (dp1) today by (re)designing a daily ritual or routine to help take care of ourselves and/or be productive… a timely challenge for this opportune moment.

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Today, we continue our design challenge by shifting gears from “need-finding” to “solution-finding”. We run a DT-style brainstorm and rapidly visualize how a new daily routine might fit with our day.

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Building on our ideation and visualization work from yesterday, we dive right into rapid prototyping today. In doing so, we prepare ourselves to test our newly designed daily rituals and routines!

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Having just tested our new rituals & routines for the first time, we iterate. We reflect on what we learned, identify what we might change, modify our prototypes, and prepare to give them another try.

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Congratulations! Today, we wrap up our “mini design challenge”, and consider how we might carry our projects forward. We close with a surprise and conduct a DT-style debrief on the overall experience.

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Congratulations on completing the Design Project #1! You’ve taken another big step on your learning journey by practicing design thinking yourself on a real-world project. As before, if you’d like a course completion certificate acknowledging your progress, here’s how to get it.

Today we embark on our journey! We’ll get a glimpse of a design thinker’s toolkit, preview what we’ll cover in the next 10 sessions, and warm up our sketching muscles.

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While a simple line sounds easy enough, it’s deceptively difficult to sketch straight and confident lines that are in place and on target. So, we’ll dedicate this entire session to lines.

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Round about now is a good time to start working on circles.  Sketching circles with confidence takes practice. So, we begin today.  And for good measure, we’ll practice our lines again too.

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A key part of sketching like a design thinker is writing like one too. Today, we’ll start to develop our own DT-style “personal font” that is visually clear, confident, and communicative.

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