Professional Certificate
Design Thinking Course Toronto
Get hands-on experience applying the Design Thinking Process and use it to solve complex business problems and develop user-oriented solutions.
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- Tuition details
- Financing options
- Employer sponsorship
My ultimate goal was to start my own company... I knew that BrainStation could provide me with the skills I would need to take an idea from conception to execution.
Greg Hayes
Co-Founder and CEO at Branch
Learn Design Thinking Live, Led by Experienced Design Leaders
Design Thinking is one of the most effective ways for groups to solve challenging problems. In this live course, learn each step of the Design Thinking Process and complete a hands-on Design Thinking workshop to prepare you to bring this powerful methodology back to your work and life.
Learn Design Thinking in Toronto
Online classroom. Live and expert-led.
Build Design Thinking skills
Ideal for learners looking to upskill.
Real Outcomes
Complete a hands-on Design Thinking workshop.
Professional Certificate
Earn a BrainStation Design Thinking Certificate.
This professional development course does not require approval under the Ontario Career Colleges Act, 2005.
Upcoming Course Dates & Campuses
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Unit 1
Empathize & Ideate
As a human-centered practice, the first step of the Design Thinking Process is Empathy: understanding your user. Learn to complete effective user research through techniques like interviews, and use your insights to understand their true needs, captured in personas. Bring this understanding into the Ideation phase and leverage unique ideation techniques to develop a wide range of innovative solutions.
- Key Skills:
- User Research
- User Interviews
- Personas
- Customer Needs Statements
- Rapid Ideation
- ChatGPT
- User Research With GenAI
Complete Effective User Research
All great solutions begin with a strong understanding of the end user. Learn how to complete effective user research that sets the foundation for the rest of the Design Thinking Process.
Build User Personas
Translate your new understanding into user personas: powerful representations of your users that allow you and your team to step in their shoes and develop an effective solution tailored to their needs.
Use Rapid Ideation to Discover Multiple Solutions
Learn how to facilitate rapid ideation to quickly generate large numbers of innovative solutions within a short period of time.
Unit 2
Prototype & Test
Design Thinking is an iterative process. Learn to create lightweight prototypes to test potential solutions and determine if they truly meet customer needs. Discover how to collect valuable feedback throughout your testing in order to inform each new iteration as your build toward a truly innovative solution for your users.
- Key Skills:
- Prototyping
- Iterative Development
- Customer Testing
- Prototype Refinement
Learn to Define Lightweight Prototypes
Prototypes must be designed to test potential solutions quickly and easily. Learn how to define a lightweight prototype that helps you validate your solutions faster.
Discover How to Complete Customer Testing
With each solution iteration, learn how to collect effective feedback that validates your solution and guides your iterations toward a final innovation.
Unit 3
Crystallize & Pitch
The final phases of the Design Thinking Process are meant to make your solution a reality. Bring everything you’ve learned through this iterative process into a crystallized solution that you can pitch to others: an essential step in getting buy-in and creating action within the modern workforce.
- Key Skills:
- Crystallizing Your Solution
- Pitch Preparation
- Presentation Skills
Learn to Crystallize Your Solution
Collect your learnings from throughout the iterative Design Thinking Process and transform them into a crystallized solution that is ready to be communicated to others and put into action.
Practice Preparing and Pitching
Communicating your solution and gaining buy-in are essential skills to create action in the modern workforce. Learn how to tell the right story and kick-off your solution.
Taught by Experienced Industry Experts
BrainStation Instructors are experienced practitioners who work at the world's most innovative companies. They're experts in their field, and enter the classroom with years of experience making sure you're learning the most up-to-date and practical skills companies around the world need.
Built With Experts From The World's Most Innovative Companies
BrainStation partners with industry experts when building all of our courses, ensuring every course covers the latest industry-relevant topics and tools businesses need. We continue to work with our network of experts to update our courses so they're always up to date.
Complete an End-to-End Design Thinking Process
To earn your certificate, you’ll participate in a series of dynamic, hands-on Design Thinking activities in order to design a solution to one of multiple challenging problems you will choose. Participate in the complete Design Thinking Process to empathize with your users, ideate, prototype and test your solutions, and crystalize your final solution so it can be pitched to your class. Along the way, you’ll have learned the skills you need to apply the Design Thinking process to other problems within your work and life.
View Tuition, Financing Options, and More in the Course Package
View the Course Package to access:
- Tuition details
- Financing options
- Employer sponsorship
Earn a BrainStation Design Thinking Certificate
Upon completing BrainStation’s Design Thinking Course, you’ll receive an industry-recognized professional certificate to share with your network and showcase all that you’ve learned. BrainStation certificates are formatted for sharing on LinkedIn.
Location
Learn in the Center of Toronto's Tech Hub
Located in the heart of Toronto's Tech Alley, BrainStation is at the center of Toronto's tech scene, surrounded by the best tech companies in Toronto. In addition to courses, BrainStation Toronto offers training sessions, industry events, expert panel discussions, and more.
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What Our Graduates Are Saying
Dylan Hebb
Senior Consultant at Content Bloom
When you take a BrainStation course, you're learning with some of the very best in the industry. You collaborate with product managers, digital strategists, UX designers, and all kinds of other backgrounds.
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Andrew Gosine
Product Designer
Our instructor... was clear, detail oriented, and made the learning environment safe and collaborative. We got a lot of real world examples from him, and all the little details he shared made this entire course special, and more than simply reading a textbook.
Overall, I'm a big advocate for Brainstation's courses - they've proved to be extremely valuable in my career.
Greg Hayes
Co-Founder and CEO at Branch
My ultimate goal was to start my own company, and though I didn’t have a specific idea in mind at that time, I knew that BrainStation could provide me with the skills I would need to take an idea from conception to execution.
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Christopher Spinelli
Art Director at New York School of Interior Design
It's always hard to start something new, especially when it involves learning skills that you know will force you to think differently about your day-to-day work. I'm glad I got over that fear and signed up for two classes... both were fantastic!
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Frequently Asked Questions
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What is design thinking and who is it for?
Design thinking is a method of creative problem solving that is centered around putting the customer first.
Our Design Thinking course will teach you how to approach complex business problems with human-centered design solutions that accurately identify customer needs.
Design thinking is popular amongst Product Managers who are in charge of testing and building out products before they go to market.
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Will I earn a Design Thinking certificate from this online course?
Yes, when you complete the Design Thinking course, you will earn a BrainStation Design Thinking Certificate, which can boost your LinkedIn profile and resume, helping you stand out in the job market and when applying for product management and design positions.
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What payment options do you offer?
BrainStation offers some of the most competitive payment options for design thinking training, with a range of flexible payment plans.
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Monthly payment installments
Allowing you to split your tuition into smaller monthly payments.
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Employer sponsorship
Get your tuition reimbursed by your employer.
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Monthly payment installments
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Do I need a technical background for this Design Thinking course?
No, you do not require a technical background to succeed in the Design Thinking course. While many of our learners come from tech companies, design thinking is applicable in a number of industries and positions. This course is intended to benefit anyone looking to think more creatively.
Professional backgrounds vary considering many fields use design thinking to improve products, and plan with a more human-centric approach.
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Are there any prerequisites for this Design Thinking course?
BrainStation’s Design Thinking course was created for those who are new to design thinking or product management, and can be considered beginner-friendly. There are no prerequisites for this course.
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