Develop creative solutions to problems.
Design encompasses a key aspect to every project, product, or solution. It determines how a consumer or business interacts with our product, and provides a key insight to how our organisation is perceived and interacted with. The key to design is often seen as a creative process, devoid of metrics and therefore more difficult to measure.
How the methodology is structured
Design Thinking combines the elements of three pillars to form the DTMethod®: DTModel, DTTools and DTRules & Roles.
DTRules & Roles incorporates the people centred approach and human-centred design in a structured ecosystem which helps to follow the process described by DTModel. It covers a variety of topics including teams, individuals, roles and how they interact using an active and iterative approach to apply the DTMethod.
DTModel explores in depth the three phases of the design process; Exploration, Creative and Construction. This is an crucial part of the process based on an iterative theory which allows for the structured design of a solution.
DTTools delves deep into the mentality of a user, to use a variety of tools to understand who they are and use this knowledge to create a series of user stories and needs which drive product and project functionality.
The benefits of Design Thinking Method
- reduces risk to organisations by helping to assess if project is feasible before doing all the work,
- project cost reduction: fewer project changes resulting from stakeholders feedback,
- increase the benefits obtained by products, processes and services created by project management processes preceded by Design Thinking,
- reduce the feeling of uncertainty about the duration and level of people's involvement in the Design Thinking process,
- enable the incorporation of Design Thinking into the routine activity of projects,
- prepare employees for effective work during Design Thinking workshops,
- increase the possibility of designing a good Solution.
DTMethod® Foundation
Learn how to design good solutions using the DTMethod®
Individuals from several key disciplines may be interested in the Design Thinking Methodology:
- Project Managers
- Change Agents
- Product Developers
- Facilitators
- SCRUM Masters
- Product Owners
All these roles provide key elements of the initiation and success of any project, product or service. And, as all these roles will need to provide key inputs which affect the design process it is essentials a methodology is in place to support this.
DTMethod Foundation certification comprises:
- 40 minute exam
- Multiple choice
- 50 questions
- 33 required to pass
- Closed book
DTMethod® Professional
The Professional level qualification aims to measure whether the candidate has sufficient knowledge...
The DTMethod Professional training is addressed to designers who want to learn new tools and deepen their competences in conducting stakeholder research. The outcome of the training is:
- Improved interviewing skills (in-depth and contextual)
- Improving questionnaire design skills
- Improving observation skills
- Learning about new tools useful in the difference phases of the DTModel.
The Practitioner level is aimed at:
- Project Managers
- Change Agents
- Product Developers
- Facilitators
- Product Owners
- 2.5 hour exam
- 80 questions
- Pass mark – 50% (40/80)
- The examination is to be taken with the support of the DTMethod Workbook and the Design Thinking Basics: an introduction to the DTMethod book.
