Capacity Building

Individual Inspire (II)


Description
Are you a change maker, entrepreneur, social innovator, or someone looking to learn more about human-centered design and design thinking?

Sign-up for Individual Inspire! A six-week, self-directed, online capacity building program that teaches people like you, how to use human-centered design and design thinking as an approach to problem solving. We work to enable teams to come together to improve project outcomes and develop sustainable innovation practices. Individual Inspire aims to accelerate impact on the critical issues facing our communities and we believe that design can be a powerful tool when done well.

Throughout this program, you will learn a variety of toolsets, skillsets, and mindsets that you can use to cultivate novel solutions within your organization. Inspire is built on a structure called the Double Diamond, a common framework that focuses on finding the right problem first, and then designing the right solution.

Throughout inspire you will learn different design thinking frameworks, where to start, how to develop empathy and gather research, how to narrow your focus, and various strategies for ideation, prototyping and testing. You will also learn how to use a business model canvas and move through the problem solving process all the way to launching a product or service.

Sign-up on your own and receive access to all virtual Inspire content, including:
- 12-18 hours of online material,
- Access to tested frameworks for solving complex problems, and,
- Access to a network of likeminded peers.

Content
  • Lesson 1 - Introduction to Inspire
  • Tell us about yourself!
  • Lesson 1 Introduction Video
  • Lesson 1 Overview
  • What is Inspire?
  • The Inspire Structure
  • Skillsets, Toolsets, and Mindsets
  • Recognizing Your Bias
  • Additional Resources
  • Lesson 2 - Introduction to Ways of Thinking
  • Lesson 2 Introduction Video
  • Lesson 2 Overview
  • Human-Centered Design
  • Human-Centered Design Importance
  • Human-Centered Design Core Principles and Mindsets
  • Systems Thinking
  • Systems Mapping - The Iceberg Model
  • The Double Diamond
  • Additional Resources
  • Lesson 3 - Your Baseline
  • Lesson 3 Introduction Video
  • Lesson 3 Overview
  • Your Baseline Overview
  • Skillsets
  • Toolsets
  • Mindsets
  • Your Baseline Tool
  • Additional Resources
  • Lesson 4 - Where Do You Start?
  • Lesson 4 Introduction Video
  • Lesson 4 Overview
  • Where do you start?
  • How Might We...
  • Understand Root Causes
  • Simple System Mapping
  • Additional Resources
  • Lesson 5 - Develop Empathy
  • Lesson 5 Introduction Video
  • Lesson 5 Overview
  • Develop Empathy
  • Building Empathy Part One: Understanding the Challenge
  • Building Empathy Part Two: Learning from Research
  • Research Considerations
  • Conduct an Interview
  • Done Enough Research?
  • Additional Resources
  • Lesson 6 - Make Connections
  • Lesson 6 Introduction Video
  • Lesson 6 Overview
  • What is Synthesis?
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Needs, Wants, and Barriers
  • Additional Resources
  • Lesson 7 - Define and Reframe
  • Lesson 7 Introduction Video
  • Lesson 7 Overview
  • Define and Reframe
  • Storytelling
  • Additional Resources
  • Lesson 8 - Come Up With Ideas
  • Lesson 8 Introduction Video
  • Lesson 8 Overview
  • Ideas, Ideas, Ideas
  • Ideation Techniques
  • Groupthink
  • Idea Generation
  • Idea Selection
  • Fall in love with the problem, Not the solution
  • Additional Resources
  • Lesson 9 - Bring Your Ideas to Life
  • Lesson 9 Introduction Video
  • Lesson 9 Overview
  • What is Prototyping?
  • Steps to Prototyping
  • Lesson 10 - Test It Out
  • Lesson 10 Introduction Video
  • Lesson 10 Overview
  • Testing, Testing
  • Three Lenses of Human-Centered Design
  • Design a Test Plan
  • Iteration
  • Additional Resources
  • Lesson 11 - So, You Think You're Done?
  • Lesson 11 Introduction Video
  • Lesson 11 Overview
  • So, You Think You're Done?
  • Business Model Canvas
  • Planning Your Next Steps
  • Your Baseline - Revisited
  • Additional Resources
  • Lesson 12 - Inspire Wrap Up
  • Lesson 12 - Inspire Wrap Up
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever