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About the Course

Today innovation is everyone's business. Whether you are a manager in a global corporation, an entrepreneur starting up, in a government role, or a teacher in an elementary school, everyone is expected to get lean – to do better with less. And that is why we all need design thinking. At every level in every kind of organization, design thinking provides the tools you need to become an innovative thinker and uncover creative opportunities that are there – you're just not seeing them yet. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, we provide an overview of design thinking and work with a model containing four key questions and several tools to help you understand design thinking as a problem solving approach. We also look at several stories from different organizations that used design thinking to uncover compelling solutions....

Top reviews

ML

Jun 14, 2017

Good and easy to understand course. Design Thinking is a key methodology in Business nowadays. This course presents the key concepts and introduces you to the methodology through easy going lectures.

IM

Jan 24, 2017

Really helped me to gain another perspective on different solutions and how thinking out of the box, and even in the box but from another perspective may be very productive and innovative.

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By Diana G

Jul 23, 2019

Excellent course, good explanations with real examples!

By Aditya V

Feb 6, 2016

This course is for me because innovation is my concern.

By Carlos H J C B

Sep 30, 2025

muy buen curso ,me gusto mucho

By Alexandra R

Dec 20, 2018

Excelente aprendizaje!

By VIGASINI S P

Dec 10, 2025

Good and very useful

By Mustapha B

Nov 6, 2025

Excellent course

By Cielo E O E

Sep 29, 2025

ME GUSTO MUCHO

By Salvador M H

Sep 8, 2016

Great course!

By Ruba m A

Sep 14, 2025

Very helpful

By Manuela H L

Dec 3, 2025

Buen curso

By DHONIK X F J

Dec 3, 2025

good

By İbrahim E

Dec 15, 2025

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By Rita B

Dec 23, 2025

It laid down the basics and fundamentals for the design thinking methods.

By michelle m

Sep 26, 2025

Gostei bastante, só queria que os vídeos tivessem em PT

By Natasa S

Dec 10, 2025

very good but i would like more practical exercises

By James K

Dec 28, 2018

Lecturer is un-engaging, very little emotion shown and monotonous, just your run off the mill reading-off teleprompter with a poor background.

Slides look like they were created in one of the earlier version of powerpoint so not engaging

By Dawn J

May 26, 2020

Pros: Real life examples of design thinking applied globally.

Cons: I signed up for the course expecting practical frameworks of how to apply design thinking but unfortunately did not receive that as a takeaway. The course materials also failed to define the term design thinking in a succinct way, which alone tells me that the rest of the course is going to be vague and barely sweeping the surface of real-life applications.

By Federico C

Aug 15, 2019

Good Step description, poor description of tools, no testing at all.

It should be more hands on, and may be more practical. Some videos were too long. No quizzes for following up and capstone was really poor.

Reading the book is way more useful than attending this course.

Week 4 learning launch class was the best one.

By sami h

Jul 22, 2017

I needed good knowledge in deep of the different phases tools and workshops to be able to run them myself. This course is only an introduction + companies examples that sometimes are not bringing value to the course. A bit disappointed !

By Do T T L

Feb 24, 2025

In my personal opinion, the videos are too long-winded, just talking, not engaging enough for me to complete the course.

By Atefeh H

Mar 24, 2020

Content of the course is so basic comparing to the final work that is expected from the student.

By Wasim D

Aug 3, 2021

I am giving it a one star because my work needs to be reviewed by peers instead of quizzed and I have yet to have my work corected and there was only one out of three assignments available for correction, it makes it hard to obtain the certificate even though you complete the tasks very disappointed

By Mourad A

Mar 12, 2026

content is dated, I understand the concepts but the examples are from another era. We have nig data now, AI... I took many classes but this one was good, but very painful to go through. It needs a massive refresh to reflect today's reality.

By Felipe S d B

Nov 10, 2016

muito bla bla bla, pouco resultado, pouca comprovacão de funcionamento.

By Louis S D

Nov 11, 2017

This is a wonderful course and I applaud Prof Liedtka on her teaching methodology combining structure with creativity. Each of the tools listed are really useful in expressing the design thought process in action and every one of the experts have lent their unique perspectives, which have been really helpful in outlining the idea that Design Thinking tries to convey. My only gripe if any would be the assignment rubric, which shackles the author within a very walled framework and defeats the purpose of thinking out of the box. While it offers a precious guideline for the peer to evaluate, it more or less mandates the author to stick within this and it applies some sort of unwritten pressure on the peer to rate only on those defined yardsticks, which again effectively brings down the scope for the writer of the reflection to bring in fresh approaches into their piece. Design Thinking in spirit has to involve a level of creative thinking within a structured framework, but if the structure takes precedence, then in all probability creativity would take an uncomplimentary second position. Please take this for what it is, but be sure that the course and the material have been totally outstanding, and I commend the Darden team for putting this out on Coursera.