Certificate in Design Thinking

Course Code: DIGTR 3612

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29 Sep - 03 Oct 2025

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Dubai, UAE

$4,250

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22 - 26 Dec 2025

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Abu Dhabi, UAE

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Introduction

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In today’s dynamic and complex world, innovation is no longer a luxury — it’s a necessity. Organizations that thrive are those that deeply understand human needs, think creatively, and move rapidly from ideas to solutions.
Design Thinking is the globally recognized, human-centered approach that empowers individuals and teams to tackle real-world challenges creatively and systematically.

The Certificate in Design Thinking by BOOST is a comprehensive, hands-on learning journey that equips professionals with the tools, mindsets, and frameworks necessary to drive meaningful innovation.
This intensive program blends theory with application through immersive exercises, live case studies, and group design sprints, allowing participants to experience the full design thinking cycle from empathy to prototyping and testing.

By the end of the course, participants will be confident applying design thinking to create better products, services, processes, strategies, and experiences — leading to measurable impact for their organizations.

Understand and apply the principles, stages, and mindsets of the design thinking methodology.
Develop deep empathy for customers, users, and stakeholders through qualitative research methods.
Reframe complex challenges into actionable problem statements.
Generate innovative solutions through creative ideation techniques.
Rapidly prototype and test ideas to learn, improve, and de-risk innovations.
Facilitate design thinking workshops and collaborative innovation sessions.
Embed a design thinking culture within teams and organizations for ongoing innovation.

Business leaders, executives, and managers seeking to foster a culture of innovation.
Entrepreneurs and founders aiming to design impactful products, services, or business models.
Product managers, UX/UI designers, and marketers looking to drive customer-centric solutions.
Consultants, facilitators, and change agents working on innovation and transformation initiatives.
HR and learning professionals building human-centered organizational practices.

Introduction to Design Thinking and Human-Centered Mindset

What is Design Thinking and why does it matter today?
History and evolution of design thinking (IDEO, Stanford d.school, HBS perspectives)
The Design Thinking Process: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test
Key mindsets: empathy, experimentation, collaboration, optimism, and iteration
Case studies of successful applications across industries
Group Activity: "Experience Design Thinking in Action"

Empathy and Deep User Understanding

Techniques for empathy: interviews, shadowing, journey mapping
Identifying latent needs, pains, and desires of users
Building empathy maps and personas
Synthesizing research insights to uncover opportunity areas
Fieldwork Assignment: Conduct mini-interviews and gather empathy data

Problem Framing and Creative Ideation

How to reframe challenges and uncover the real problem
Crafting effective "How Might We..." statements
Brainstorming techniques: Brainwriting, SCAMPER, Mash-Ups, etc.
Divergent vs. convergent thinking: Balancing creativity and focus
Group Ideation Sprint: Generate bold, user-centered ideas

Rapid Prototyping and Iterative Testing

The power of prototypes: learning by making
Low-fidelity prototyping methods: sketches, storyboards, role plays, paper prototypes
Testing prototypes: Gathering feedback without over-investing
Iterating based on user feedback and learning loops
Mini-Design Sprint: Build and test a prototype within a few hours

Applying Design Thinking to Business and Leadership

Scaling design thinking beyond products: services, processes, strategies
Leading and facilitating design thinking workshops
Building a sustainable culture of innovation in organizations
Real-world challenges: Applying design thinking to current work problems
Final Project: Team presentations of design challenges and solutions
Certification Ceremony and Action Planning: Your Next Steps as a Design Thinker

Boost certificate of completion

BOOST's Professional Attendance Certificate “BPAC” is always given to the delegates after completing the training course, and depends on their attendance of the program at a rate of no less than 80%, besides their active participation and engagement during the program sessions.

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Shareable Certificate

Earn certificate upon completion

COURSE METHODOLOGY

Our Training programs are implemented by combining the participants' academic knowledge and practical practice (30% theoretical / 70% practical activities).

At The end of the training program, Participants are involved in practical workshop to show their skills in applying what they were trained for. A detailed report is submitted to each participant and the training department in the organization on the results of the participant's performance and the return on training. Our programs focus on exercises, case studies, and individual and group presentations.

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