17-657 Design Thinking for Software Engineering

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Leading successful tech companies such as Meta, Amazon, Google, IBM are obsessed with customer focus and innovation. They use Design Thinking as one of the core competencies. Creative problem solving is one of the most soughtafter skills in the tech industry. Unlock your creative potential and transform your approach to developing technology solutions that resonate with users and deliver the desired outcome. This immersive course has been specifically tailored for software engineers, entrepreneurs and aspiring tech leaders who wish to innovate and solve complex problems through a humancentered design process. Techniques and processes taught in this course will empower you to empathize with users, define clear problem statements, blend ideation, and prototyp to develop userfocused solutions. This course will equip you with methodologies and industry frameworks such as Stanford d.Schools 5 step model.

Prerequisites: none listed

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