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Bring Design for Delight to your students with an online course
Our Design for Delight Foundations course is a free 8-hour online learning path that your students can take at their own pace. You don’t need a background in design thinking to take or teach this course—just a desire to stimulate your students’ minds. The course will help promote creativity, critical thinking, complex problem solving, and collaboration in your classroom. This course is intended for both educators and students to get started with design thinking.
Features and benefits
What is Design for Delight?
It’s our unique approach to problem-solving and innovation—our not-so-secret sauce that we’re eager to share with you and your students. More precisely, Design for Delight is a set of principles that gives students hands-on experience in creative problem solving. It gives students the tools to identify big unsolved problems, gain customer empathy, run quick experiments with actual customers, test assumptions, pivot if needed, and much more.
Deep Customer Empathy
Create shared understanding, insights, and the motivation to improve the lives of our customers. We gain empathy by observing people where and when they are experiencing pains or problems.
Go Broad to Go Narrow
Focus on what matters most. When we “go broad,” we use our creativity to explore a variety of potential solutions. We “go narrow” by focusing on bold solutions most likely to delight our customers.
Rapid Experiments with Customers
Put our solutions to the test. When we run experiments with real people, we quickly learn what works and what does not, saving valuable time and resources when making our next decision.
Design for Delight video series
The Why Behind Deep Customer Empathy
Discover why it’s so important to gain deep empathy for your customers.
Teaching materials and certifications
Student resources
Use virtual whiteboard templates on MURAL and access videos to share with your students for additional design thinking learning.
Design for Delight Innovator Certification
The certification validates students’ knowledge of design thinking principles and problem-solving strategies. It helps them develop in-demand skills like creativity, critical thinking, and innovation, essential for success in today’ workforce and entrepreneurial settings.
Bringing design thinking to life
An Educator’s Perspective: Q&A with Pat Hambright, Washoe County, NV
Pat shares his experience leading several teams through Intuit's Design for Delight course while competing during the Social Innovation Challenge.
Using Design for Delight to Innovate
Students use Design for Delight during the Social Innovation Challenge to build innovative solutions, solving real-world problems.
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Podcast: Empowering Future Success
Don't miss this podcast featuring Intuit's VP of Corporate Responsibility, Dave Zasada, in conversation with Dr. Rebecca Corbin from the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship.
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Teachers and students love Design for Delight
All of the students on our team took the Design for Delight course...they provided a lot of positive feedback. I will likely start using the framework and language in our curriculum instead of what we’ve been using.
Look to always improve your product, your service,and yourself. The bottleneck in your business is going to be yourself. So if you're constantly reading, asking questions, and you're constantly improving, then your business is also going to improve.
We want these kids to be able to fail forward, so that they can be resilient. I really think they're going to transfer these [design thinking] skills to the workforce, and that's going to make for better employees all around. They're going to be able to think more critically and creatively and solve problems.
The course gave us a structure for creating a solution and opened our eyes to a new way to approach solving a problem. For example, empathizing with the customer is so important, because it enables you to identify their needs and wants, and it’s the first step in creating a solution that the customer is looking for.
The Design for Delight process helped us really think out of the box, because it teaches that every idea is valid.
The creative process for coming up with our idea helped us cultivate analytical thinking, which is something we can use in any aspect of life.
