Chapter 1: Welcome and Course Structure 2 Lessons | 3 Min. Video
Chapter 1: Welcome and Course Structure 2 Lessons | 3 Min. Video

Design Thinking Crash Course: From Beginner to Practitioner

This is a step-by-step guide of how to use the Design Thinking approach to solve your challenge in the area of product, service, business, organization or corporate strategy. You will also learn how to facilitate a Design Thinking workshop. You can work on your own challenge parallel to the course or just listen to everything and learn how Design Thinking works using our example challenge.

The Crash Course includes:

  • 1.5 hours of videos including insights into an example Design Thinking Challenge
  • Templates to use for your Design Thinking challenge at home, at work or during a workshop (with our permission for continued use)
  • A step by step "homework" for working on your own challenge (optional)
  • Quizzes to check your learning progress
  • Templates that can be downloaded as word or powerpoint - for continued use after the course
  • A pdf handout at the end of the course that summarizes your learnings and as a backup for your own workshop or project

Download the following templates with the permission to use it after the course:

  • Market / situation analysis questions
  • Interview template
  • Empathy map
  • Define template
  • Disney methods template
  • Now-wow-how matrix
  • Prototype template
  • Feedback template

The course language is English.

Guarantee: We offer a 30-day refund policy for all our courses. No questions asked.


Julia Lettinger

Julia Lettinger is an expert in corporate and business strategy with many years of experience in the digital industry, technology, media and telecommunications. Julia promotes the use of agile methods for modern strategic management and applies her knowledge to her consulting clients from digital industries or industries in digital transformation. Julia is the founder of a strategy and innovation consultancy (Responsive Strategy) based in Berlin and Sydney and the founder of the Design Thinking Crash Course Meetup in Berlin. She is also a facilitator for the Silicon Valley Design Thinking Club, the LISA LEAD startup incubator at Stanford and a lecturer of strategic management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR). -------------------------------------------------------------- Julia Lettinger ist Expertin für Unternehmensstrategie mit langjähriger Managementerfahrung in der digitalen Industrie, Technologie, Medien und Telekommunikation. Julia setzt sich für den Einsatz agiler Methoden im strategischem Management und in der Produktentwicklung ein. Sie berät vor allem Kunden aus digitalen Branchen und Unternehmen in der digitalen Transformation. Julia ist Gründerin einer Strategie- und Innovationsagentur (Responsive Strategy) mit Sitz in Berlin und Sydney und Gründerin des Design Thinking Meetups in Berlin. Darüberhinaus ist sie Design Thinking Coach des Silicon Valley Design Thinking Clubs, des LISA LEAD Startup Inkubators der Stanford Universität und Dozentin für strategisches Management an der Berliner Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht (HWR).