Design Thinking (DTMethod®)
Capability Development
Design Thinking certification (DTMethod®)
The Design Thinking Certification (DTMethod®) and associated courses are accredited by the APMG and created in conjunction with the Inprogress Design Lab.
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.
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.
- 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 process,
- Enable the incorporation of the method into the routine activity of projects,
- Prepare employees for effective work during Design workshops,
- Increase the possibility of designing a good Solution.