What are we learning here?
Design thinking is a human-centered innovation methodology used by teams and individual to tackle problems. In the appetizer, we will getting an overview of Design Thinking and understanding the steps involved in the process:
- Step 1: Empathy
- Step 2: Define
- Step 3: Ideate
- Step 4: Prototype
- Step 5: Test & Iterate
Each step is accompanied with a WWF colleague sharing his experience with you. This way in the course you will get both a general overview of the method but also understand how it can be useful in your work.
Discussion Spaces
By signing up for this course you will also receive an invitation to a 30mins discussion space with a group of other colleagues from across the network to reflect on your learnings from this course, ask questions and identify where DT can support you in your work. The invite will be shared with you for a time roughly 1-2 months after your sign-up.
If you are taking the course together with your team or your office then we can organise such as discussion space uniquely for your group - for this just fill out this short form and say you organise the appetizer for your team.
For who and by whom?
This course is developed to be suitable for everyone in WWF. Regardless of your role and where you are based: Design Thinking can be applied both to organisational and conservation challenges.
It is designed by WWF's Global A-team for Innovation which is aiming at growing WWF's innovation culture and transforming WWF to a truly innovative organisation. It does so by realising WWF's innovation approach of which Innovation Skills (including Design Thinking) is a key area of focus.
Get in touch with the A-team for Innovation with questions or suggestions:
Course Curriculum
Here an overview of the different content that will be covered. You will see it is a combination of text, video and some reflection exercises. You will need around 90mins to complete the course.