Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Communicate ideas creatively with digital presentation styles and content in an aesthetically pleasing, artistic, storyboard that captures the imagination of the reader.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the steps of Design Thinking as an Innovation Tool, including how and what is involved in the steps of Empathy, Design, Ideation, Test, and Iterate.
3. Demonstrate the innovation skills of brainstorming multiple solutions, decision-making, creating a prototype, assumption rating, and designing tests or experiments to learn from your customer group by completing the tasks and showing your work in a presentation document.
4. Differentiate between the intellectual standards for creative thinking (originality, adaptability, appropriateness, and contribution to the domain)
5. Research, analyze, and write a report on chosen problems and customers to demonstrate empathy, root problem identification, the systems in which the problem lives, and how to segment your customer group into a persona.