Design Thinking Crash Course 

The Design Thinking Crash Course is a half-day experience where our expert facilitators will guide you through the award-winning ExperienceInnovation™ simulation, co-created by IDEO and ExperiencePoint. 

Featured Facilitators

Collin Young - Bridge Innovate^® Client Services Manager

Experienced facilitator, project manager, and design session engineer, Collin Young has been helping clients around the country solve complex challenges and facilitate design sessions for teams of more than 50 people as to encourage innovation and growth across their organizations.

Mary Kim – Bright Spark Director
Prior to joining Bridge Innovate, Mary Kim was responsible for developing and cultivating real-world collaborations among distinguished professionals, students and faculty at Savannah College of Art and Design. With strong passion for design and education, Mary Kim now supports businesses and organizations build design thinking, cross collaboration and creative problem solving capabilities that lead to growth and innovation. 

What to Expect

During the simulation, you will tackle a design challenge in a team-based competition. Teams are awarded points for recognizing great ideas as well as developing great ideas. The simulation delivers the essentials of a four-month innovation journey in a half-day workshop.

This course helps you build innovation confidence and competence, emerge with foundational knowledge, and gain real experience in design thinking. You'll be ready to apply it immediately to solve design challenges and support a culture of innovation!

Objectives

• Develop a common language for innovation
• Put customers at the center of design efforts
• Grow nascent ideas into powerful solutions
• Hone your skills to lead design teams

Investment

Program fees for the Crash Course are $325.00 per person, which includes all session materials, online access to design thinking resources, and lunch.

 Others who have been trained

“ExperienceInnovation™ has replaced modules that we’ve done in the past on innovation. We just felt it was a better learning tool...I have seen people start to talk the language that’s in the program. You can really see that the skills learned are being used on the job.”

- Keith Halperin, Korn Ferry

“It is a comprehensive methodology delivered through an exciting interactive online session based within a classroom environment generating a great energy and positive approach to innovation.”

- Brendan Gordon, Dell

“Great simulation that provides a guided and fun-loaded Design Thinking experience to all participants.”

- Thomas Bauer, Infosys Consulting Ag

“This process changes the way you approach solving complex problems and unleashes the power of group-think through providing structure and inspiration.”

- David Wilson, STEM School Chattanooga