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Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers, where science and art meet technology and business. With the goal of building a sustainable future by creating new solutions to major global challenges, Aalto EE’s online courses are designed for executives, managers, and professionals. provides growth opportunities for individuals, groups, and organizations.

Design Thinking Online Course – Impactful Innovation through Design

You can employ Design Thinking in innovating products, services, processes, business models, and strategies. By employing this human-centric approach to innovation and development, you can make important decisions early on in the development process. This will save you a significant amount of resources towards the end of the process, where making changes is complicated and expensive. By validating or co-creating your designs with your stakeholders, your pursuits will be far more likely to succeed.

Course Overview

Design Thinking is a cost-effective and flexible online course offering a concise overview of Design Thinking. It walks you through the human-centric process of Design Thinking and gives you the best tools for all phases.

Why Design Thinking? 

• Design Thinking is an innovative approach driven by a deep understanding of the stakeholders. 
• It involves early prototyping and iterative testing of potential solutions by employing a practical methodology and process. You can employ design Thinking in developing products, services, processes, business models, and strategies. 
• This way, you can make important decisions early on in the development process to save resources towards the end of the process, where changes are far more expensive to make.

Estimated Study Time: 18 hours

By completing the course, the participant will get an Aalto EE Design Thinking certificate worth 0.5 ECTS.

Target Learners

This course is suitable for anyone who wants to get a coherent understanding of Design Thinking as an approach, a process, and a set of practical tools. People involved with developing products, services, processes, business models, or strategies will benefit from this course.

Course Objectives

You will learn to combine analytical and creative thinking systematically for the best results in your business and gain a coherent understanding of this human-centric approach to innovation, its process, and tools.

Contents and schedule

The themes cover the topics from creating value with Design Thinking through to the process and different tools and templates for applying the methodology in practice. The course also addresses how to scale up Design Thinking and implement it in your organization.

This online course comprises six modules with three videos each:

• Introduction to Design Thinking
• Empathy
• Framing the Problem
• Ideation
• Prototyping and Testing
• Taking forth concepts and wrap-up

Fee and Registration

The fee for the Design Thinking, Impactful Innovation through Design online course is € 350 (+VAT).

Contact

Mr. Linh: 0886160606 or Mr. Giang: 0878723338
Email: international@ptit.edu.vn
Center for International Education, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology
5th floor, Building A1, Km10 Nguyen Trai Street, Ha Dong District, Hanoi