This course aims to familiarize students with user-centric, structured problem-solving through empathy, ideation, and prototyping to create innovative, actionable solutions. It teaches methods for identifying, defining, and solving real-world challenges while developing prototypes.

The Design Thinking and Innovation course will help students Identify problems and be able to find solutions and apply Design Thinking processes and methods to solve various problems. The course will help students learn the fundamentals/essentials of the Design Thinking and Innovation process.

Design thinking is a systematic method of solving problems. This method is unique that it starts and ends with humans. The design thinkers start by observing, interviewing or just plain experiencing a situation. Then, they proceed to improve the situation of the humans by solving problems for them.