Humanics: Design Thinking

This course teaches a problem-solving technique called design thinking which focuses on empathizing and meeting the user's needs with innovative solutions. Topics include defining a problem, ideating and collaboration, crafting user narratives using storytelling, prototyping solutions, testing iteratively, and reflecting on final products. Students will be equipped with a methodology to approach solutions including empathy maps, hopes and fears, needs statements, stakeholder maps, and storyboards. Students will apply IBM principles and earn badges from IBM in this course.