Design Thinking Bootcamp is a hands-on and active opportunity to learn and immediately apply our proven growth tools.

Key Benefits:

• Two-thirds of our graduates use design thinking to bring a new product, service, or experience to market within 36 months.

• Lifelong access to the newest design methods taught by Stanford’s state of the art d.school — the originator of design thinking.

• Team up with other professionals and train together to drive growth on a real project.

• All teaching and coaching is done by a combination of Stanford professors and successful program alums who are design-driven leaders themselves.

• A personalized experience with a student-to-faculty ratio of 6:1.

• A combination of hands-on training and short lecture-style sessions.

• Join and connect with a robust Stanford d.school alumni network.

• Stanford letter of completion awarded.

Enrolling in Bootcamp will equip you to design and deliver new-to-the-world offerings immediately following your graduation. See which format is right for you.

Learn and apply skills to solve real business challenges using human-centered design techniques in a four-day workshop at Stanford’s d.school.

At Design Thinking Bootcamp, we understand that every product, service, and experience you work on must deliver. Our intensive program is focused on helping you solve complex problems and supports you to design and build innovative solutions for future growth. You will learn proven yet unconventional skills and tools to magnify consumer empathy and bring early product concepts to life quickly. As some of our alums have said, “you will accomplish more in three days at Bootcamp than in 30 days of work”. You will feel the intense pace at which innovation can happen. Our dynamic teaching team is committed to coaching you as you work in a small team with other professionals on a real project to apply our design thinking methods. You will leave with a toolkit of revolutionary ways of thinking about your work and the challenge to bring new products, services, or experiences to market.

Curriculum

At the cornerstone of Design Thinking Bootcamp is working on a real business challenge that gives you the opportunity to actively learn tools and behaviors that you will apply to your work before leaving the d.school.

Instruction: Design thinking experts (a combination of Stanford faculty and all-star Design Thinking Bootcamp alums) will guide teams while paying close attention to individual growth and discovery. The student-to-faculty ratio is 6:1.

Experience: The first three days of Design Thinking Bootcamp focus on applying design thinking skills (empathy, define, ideate, prototype, test) along with learning tools to generate and evaluate a portfolio of high-quality design work. These days are taught in a combination of classroom lessons and hands-on small group work. You will learn the theory and practice of our methods. On the fourth day of the program, you will make progress on your real business challenge using the tools you’ve learned. In the week after the program, you will be supported by our coaches to apply design techniques to a real business challenge.

Environment: The d.school is a cutting edge space where you will experience classroom content and also work actively in a hands-on design studio.

Teamwork: Small teams are composed of professionals with unique perspectives and backgrounds.

Who Should Attend

• Professionals responsible for tackling strategic challenges, driving growth, and implementing systems for innovation

• Professionals interested in making impact on their current customers and diversifying their offering to reach new audiences

• Leaders who seek deep collaboration across multi-disciplinary, diverse teams

• Due to the goals of this program, it is not appropriate for consultants or for those who work for consulting agencies or design firms

Design Thinking Bootcamp

• Interactive course for 3.5 days

• Provides a rich foundation in design thinking

• Additional days of post-program coaching to launch design in your organization