Design Thinking: Developing Innovative Solutions Course

Enhance your creative thinking and problem-solving skills with our two-day Design Thinking course.

Professional Academy for Creative Enterprise (PACE) onsite courses offer a range of in-person teaching and learning experiences at our University of Leeds campus.

Whether tackling business challenges or improving customer experiences, this hands-on program provides a structured approach to developing innovative solutions. Learn to identify problems, generate impactful solutions, and refine them for real-world success. Through interactive exercises, gain practical tools to tackle challenges confidently.

What Will You Learn?

  • The five key stages of design thinking and understand design thinking methodologies.
  • Explore how these methodologies can be applied across industry sectors to create innovative, user-focused solutions.
  • Gain insights into the human-centred design approach and learn how to incorporate empathy, user research, and customer insights into your problem-solving process.
  • Problem-solving skills and techniques to tackle complex challenges effectively.
  • Explore the human-centred design approach and learn how to incorporate empathy, user research, and customer insights into your problem-solving process.
  • How to define problems, ensuring a clear understanding of user needs and challenges before developing potential solutions.
  • Visualise, prototype, and evaluate solutions, applying critical analysis to refine your ideas and ensure they are practical, scalable, and impactful.

Find out more about the course and enrol here.