Design Thinking & Methods Courses and Certifications

The Citizen Developer Mindset: Creating Business Solutions with Design Thinking

Learn how to use design thinking to create training programs to teach citizen developers in design thinking.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Empathetic Engineer

This course will enable learners, especially Hardware, Software and Systems Engineers, to combine technological innovation with a deeply empathic, human-centred approach and generate truly impactful s

• edX
• 8 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Design Thinking Fundamentals

14 ratings at edX

Learn how a user-centered approach and design thinking principles inspire innovative ideas to create desirable solutions.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 8-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Design Thinking: Empathizing to Understand the Problem

9 ratings at edX

Learn how to identify and understand product or business problems through active listening, empathy and user-focused research.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 8-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Design Thinking: Prototyping and User Testing

7 ratings at edX

Learn the importance of prototyping and user testing solutions before going to market and how to assess and evaluate solutions post-launch.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 8-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Career Certificate

Design Thinking

Learn one of today’s most sought-after skills, design thinking, to help you develop new and innovative product and service solutions.

• edX
• 24 weeks, 8-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $1,213.00
• 4 courses

Defining Virtual Community Projects for Dynamic Change

Learn the tools necessary for defining virtual community projects and how to share the project to gain buy-in, in a virtual setting.

• edX
• 7 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

How Radical Collaboration Redefined the Automobile - Stanford Innovation Masters Series

2 ratings

Learn more about design thinking and how Stanford uses it to create new and innovative approaches to solving strategic problems.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Learn to iterate on products by turning usability-test and survey data into design decisions within the design thinking process.

• Codecademy
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Create Innovative Teams with Design Thinking

Implement design thinking principles and team-based methods to support idea generation and create innovative teams.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Design Thinking for Leading and Learning

A hands-on course for education leaders to learn about design thinking and explore how it can transform classroom learning and school communities.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Nursing Grand Rounds: HOPE Design Thinking for Nurse Innovators

Apply design thinking principles, empathy, and curiosity to improve patient care and everyday nursing interactions.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Design Thinking: Theories and Applications

Demystify design thinking as a process for problem-solving and learn how to use design thinking to solve complex and wicked problems.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

The Principle and Method of Design Thinking for Innovation

Learn a people-centered design thinking process from empathy research and problem definition through ideation, prototyping, testing, and iterative innovation.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

NITTTR

Design Thinking for Educators

Apply the Double Diamond design thinking process to understand students’ needs, prototype instructional solutions, test them, and implement reflective classroom improvements.

• Swayam
• 8 weeks
• Available until Oct 31, 2026
• Free Online Course