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DT360° – Certified Design Thinking Master

Become in this Design Thinking workshop a certified Design Thinking Specialist with us. Expand your expertise by developing skills in agile project management, development methods, user research, ideation and prototyping. Learn live online or in person with first-class, experienced trainers and earn a state-recognized accredited certificate.

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Individually by arrangement

Format

Inhouse Training

Duration

Full-time: 5 Days
Part-time: 10 weeks

Scope

Full-time: 7 h / day
Part-time: 4 h / week

Level of learning

Beginner & Intermediate

Languages

English
German

Certificate

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Advance your skills and learn relevant Design Thinking Skills!

Acquire sustainable knowledge and up-to-date Design Thinking skills in a short time, focused on Product strategy, research methods, analysis of results, and creative techniques. Learn from an industry expert alongside other professionals the exact skills you need for your daily work. Take the next career step and build solid, practical knowledge in agile project management, development methods, user research, ideation and prototyping.

Tools, techniques & methods
Figma Figma FigJam FigJam Google Google Google Docs Google Docs Google Sheets Google Sheets Google Slides Google Slides Business Model Canvas Business Model Canvas Prototyping Prototyping 5 whys 5 whys Contextual Inquiry Contextual Inquiry Stakeholder-Map Stakeholder-Map Visual Thinking Visual Thinking Clustering Clustering Empathy Map Empathy Map Jobs to be Done Jobs to be Done Customer Journey Customer Journey
Content, skills & learning outcomes

  • Design Thinking Basics
  • Agile User Research & Synthesis
  • Ideation, Prototyping & Fieldwork
  • Business Model & Pitch
  • Implementation ala Scrum & Lean
  • Design Thinking in the company context

Relevant, practical skills

You apply up-to-date knowledge and solid theory in an interactive, collaborative learning setting and genuinely enjoy the process.

First-class, experienced trainers

Our trainers are empathetic, pedagogically skilled industry experts with extensive international experience and a passion for teaching.

Access to extensive resources

By participating in the seminar, you will receive high-quality training materials, a comprehensive presentation, numerous templates, best practices, and many valuable tips.

State-recognized certificate

Upon successful completion of the seminar, you will receive an attractive certificate that is state-recognized, enhances your resume, and opens doors.

Networking in an exclusive community

Through the XDi community, you gain access to an exclusive platform that connects and engages you with other professionals, our alumni, and trainers.

Thousands of satisfied participants

We are a pioneer in digital transformation training across the German-speaking region and have already provided thousands of professionals with new skills.

These companies are training their workforce with us and recruiting our students.

Seminars for a Successful Career

Who Is This Design Thinking Seminar For?

Our Design Thinking seminar is aimed at professionals who want to further develop their skills in agile project management, development methods, user research, ideation and prototyping.

Employed Professionals

Specialists in their field who want to acquire urgently needed skills, advance their careers, or simply broaden their horizons.

Freelancers and Self-Employed Professionals

Independent experts who continuously expand their knowledge and learn new techniques to remain competitive and successful in the market.

Leaders and Decision-Makers

Department, Team Leaders and Executives who want to maximize their potential and develop themselves and their teams to achieve success together.

Your benefits from attending a XDi seminar

Learn from experienced industry specialists and gain valuable knowledge and skills that you can apply directly in practice.

Close knowledge gaps and acquire new skills that you can immediately use in your professional life.

Advance your career, take on new responsibilities, and become a key player in your organization.

Apply your skills, continue developing, and achieve measurable results for yourself, your team, or your clients.

Stay up to date with the latest technologies and acquire skills that help you remain competitive.
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What you will learn!

Hands-on education in the skills of the future

In this Design Thinking course, you will acquire the most important Design Thinking skills based on a curriculum developed by industry experts. The Design Thinking training program includes industry-validated, interactive content at university level and plenty of practical experience in real-world projects.

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Design Thinking Basics & Agile User Research

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From research and interpretation to experimentation

3

Prototyping and Testing

4

Present solutions and prepare implementation

5

Integrating Design Thinking into your own practice

Definition & application fields of design thinking

Meaning of the concept and variety of interpretations, possibilities to apply design thinking in different business and service areas

Practical exercises You will immerse yourself in the mindset of design thinking and work through the most important steps. You will gain initial experience with design thinking methods such as observation, visual thinking, and persona development.

Building empathy – user research

Discovering and understanding of the life and needs of potential users (without temporal and financial effort), defining goals and planning user research, finding and interpreting the users’ “digital footsteps“, user research’s do’s and don’t’s

Practical exercises (circa 2h): Application of different research methods such as issue mapping, stakeholder map, interviews, 5-Whys and contextual inquiry.

Agile user research / guerilla research methods

Formulation of relevant goals for the challenges of the individual teams, identification and understanding of user needs based on observations, interviews, visual thinking and “digital traces”.

Result synthesis

Evaluation, interpretation and evaluation of the data collected in the form of interviews, images and video-recordings with the help of storytelling, clustering, Journey Map, Empathy Map, JTBD (Jobs To Be Done).

Practical exercises: Preparation and execution of agile user research methods and result synthesis in small teams.

Idea laboratory

Acquaintance with and application of various creative techniques and games that help you to generate a multitude of innovative ideas in your team.

Practical exercise: Generate ideas using creative containment, style brainstorming and 6-3-5 method.

Prototyping – exploration and application

The importance of prototypes in design thinking, the use of prototyping in all phases of the design thinking process, getting to know each other, selecting and using different types of prototyping.

Practical exercises: Practical application of different prototyping methods such as visual posters, paper prototyping, rapid prototyping and experience prototyping.

Field research and test laboratory

Design and planning of different test situations, presentation of the prototypes, recording, analysis and evaluation of feedback, integration of the feedback into the product and service development, supplementation of the design thinking methods with agile / scrum tools

Practical exercises: Practical applications of SWOT-Feedback, Six Thinking Hats, Kano model and Features-Box

Presenting and “pitching“ solutions using business model canvas

Modeling and structuring of the desired solution in the business context, planning the adequate use of resources and budget, planning and communicating implementation in the company, coordinating procedures, corporate culture and communication, reflection on design thinking and open questions about the methods.

Practical exercises: Creation and presentation (elevator pitch) of a business model canvas for your own solution in the team

Agile Café

Planning and controlling implementation, innovative solutions and innovative implementation models, iteration, flexibility and lean production times, design sprints as an important tool for agile work processes, agile development with SCRUM, Google Sprints and Lean Canvas.

Practical exercise: Planning and drafting a project for implementing the developed solution using agile development methods

Design Thinking in the context “business“

Analysis of successful practical examples (case studies), reconstruction of one’s own work situation, recognition of situations for the use of design thinking methods.

Practical exercise (circa 1h): Phrasing application strategies as well as inquiry and planning of action steps

Design Thinking Basics & Agile User Research

Definition & application fields of design thinking

Meaning of the concept and variety of interpretations, possibilities to apply design thinking in different business and service areas

Practical exercises You will immerse yourself in the mindset of design thinking and work through the most important steps. You will gain initial experience with design thinking methods such as observation, visual thinking, and persona development.

Building empathy – user research

Discovering and understanding of the life and needs of potential users (without temporal and financial effort), defining goals and planning user research, finding and interpreting the users’ “digital footsteps“, user research’s do’s and don’t’s

Practical exercises (circa 2h): Application of different research methods such as issue mapping, stakeholder map, interviews, 5-Whys and contextual inquiry.

From research and interpretation to experimentation

Agile user research / guerilla research methods

Formulation of relevant goals for the challenges of the individual teams, identification and understanding of user needs based on observations, interviews, visual thinking and “digital traces”.

Result synthesis

Evaluation, interpretation and evaluation of the data collected in the form of interviews, images and video-recordings with the help of storytelling, clustering, Journey Map, Empathy Map, JTBD (Jobs To Be Done).

Practical exercises: Preparation and execution of agile user research methods and result synthesis in small teams.

Idea laboratory

Acquaintance with and application of various creative techniques and games that help you to generate a multitude of innovative ideas in your team.

Practical exercise: Generate ideas using creative containment, style brainstorming and 6-3-5 method.

Prototyping and Testing

Prototyping – exploration and application

The importance of prototypes in design thinking, the use of prototyping in all phases of the design thinking process, getting to know each other, selecting and using different types of prototyping.

Practical exercises: Practical application of different prototyping methods such as visual posters, paper prototyping, rapid prototyping and experience prototyping.

Field research and test laboratory

Design and planning of different test situations, presentation of the prototypes, recording, analysis and evaluation of feedback, integration of the feedback into the product and service development, supplementation of the design thinking methods with agile / scrum tools

Practical exercises: Practical applications of SWOT-Feedback, Six Thinking Hats, Kano model and Features-Box

Present solutions and prepare implementation

Presenting and “pitching“ solutions using business model canvas

Modeling and structuring of the desired solution in the business context, planning the adequate use of resources and budget, planning and communicating implementation in the company, coordinating procedures, corporate culture and communication, reflection on design thinking and open questions about the methods.

Practical exercises: Creation and presentation (elevator pitch) of a business model canvas for your own solution in the team

Agile Café

Planning and controlling implementation, innovative solutions and innovative implementation models, iteration, flexibility and lean production times, design sprints as an important tool for agile work processes, agile development with SCRUM, Google Sprints and Lean Canvas.

Practical exercise: Planning and drafting a project for implementing the developed solution using agile development methods

Integrating Design Thinking into your own practice

Design Thinking in the context “business“

Analysis of successful practical examples (case studies), reconstruction of one’s own work situation, recognition of situations for the use of design thinking methods.

Practical exercise (circa 1h): Phrasing application strategies as well as inquiry and planning of action steps

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Start dates and details

The earlier you book, the cheaper it gets. Take advantage of our early bird rates. Several employees attending an appointment? Then you will receive up to a 15% discount for each employee.

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Seminars for employees who want to acquire the necessary skills in a short period of time.

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Modern learning methods

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What makes our Design Thinking seminars stand out compared to other providers

Seminars should focus on achieving clearly defined learning objectives, combined with a positive learning experience. Often, both goals are missed.

The truly valuable skills are taught

Many seminars teach outdated or irrelevant knowledge. At XDi, the focus is on high-quality content and up-to-date topics and techniques.

The seminars actually bring participants joy

Seminars are often dry, instructor-centered, and stiff. At XDi, seminars are interactive, engaging, and practical—and you can feel the difference.

Plenty of hands-on practice and personal interaction

Our seminars provide ample opportunity to apply what you’ve learned in practice, as well as to network and exchange ideas with other professionals.

State recognized certificate

Active learning

Up-to-date content

Experienced trainers

Exciting learning experience

Modern learning methods

Countless funding

own community

We have helped many enthusiastic people to develop themselves further

Thousands of enthusiastic learners have already successfully completed further training with us. See for yourself.

""Thank you for the wonderful Design Thinking Workshop! I really liked the concept of the workshop and the trainers led really professionally through the week. All in all, really recommendable!""
Anna-Katharina Walk
"The practical structure, inspiring methods, and intensive teamwork not only provided me with valuable tools but also strengthened my ability to solve problems creatively. A clear recommendation for anyone who truly wants to understand and apply Design Thinking."
Chen Zhang
""Great trainers and hands-on experience! I can only advise it!""
Juan Blanco Acebes
""Perfect! We had a great week. I would even say this workshop was a true inspirer and mind changer to me!""
Kim Seufert
"Brilliant coaches. They always adapted the course to our needs and prepared the material very well. The best course I have ever taken so far. Thank you."
Sebastian Brix
"The week was hands-on and inspiring. A great mix of methodological knowledge and the role of facilitation. I gained a lot both professionally and personally, and I already know exactly how to integrate it into my daily work. Many thanks for that!"
Tanja Hildebrandt
Communication Designer
Empathic. Pragmatic. Excellent.

Our trainers are first-class, experienced industry experts

Our trainers are industry experts with extensive experience in various companies, industries, and countries. You will receive exactly the support you need to learn what you want. You will benefit from individuals with in-depth expertise and teaching skills.

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For her daily work, Ulrike uses her knowledge and experience from over 10 years of digital strategy and design thinking as well as her skills as a systemic coach and yoga teacher. She supports colleagues and teams every day with new impulses and creative input and thus creates inspiring processes, products and trainings. With the firm conviction that innovations can only be created in an appreciative, collaborative and positive environment at the interface of people, technology and business, she embarks on a journey of discovery and creates spaces in which digital transformation can grow and valuable learning experiences can emerge.

Ulrike Stemmer

Design Thinking Facilitator, Systemic Coach

Ulrike Stemmer

Design Thinking Facilitator, Systemic Coach

Shahira works as a freelance art director and lecturer and gives workshops on brainstorming, design basics and all aspects of branding. She has over 20 years of agency experience, including living and working in New York. For 10 years, she was senior art director at Jung von Matt, where she looked after national and international clients such as Mercedes-Benz, for whom she accompanied a launch into the Chinese market in Beijing, among other things. After Jung von Matt, she headed the marketing department of a company before setting up her own business.

Shahira Youssef

Art Director, Trainer & Master of Design

Shahira Youssef

Art Director, Trainer & Master of Design

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