Design Thinking Workshop Agency, Toronto, Ottawa, Canada

Design Thinking Workshop

Learn how to design with empathy.

Enable your team to learn new skills that can help dramatically improve their ability to solve design problems and create new opportunities. Akendi's design thinking workshops are perfect for teams who want to learn about integrating design thinking into their processes and get hands-on experience using the latest tools and techniques. Participants in our high energy workshops discover how to empathize with users and stakeholders in multi-disciplinary teams as they acquire new design skills and tackle real-life challenges.

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EMPATHIZE & GROW

Get out of the theoretical and into the tactical with hands-on learning
Bring your team together for a fun, inspiring and productive experience
Tailor your workshop to solve a real challenge that affects your customers every day

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HOW WE DO IT

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Discover your learning objectives for the team as it relates to design thinking. What design thinking learning impacts are you looking for?
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Settle on a training option. Typically a 0.5, 1 or 2 day workshop is a good fit. Our half day or 1-day workshop operates with hands-on applied learning sprints that allow cross-functional teams to apply their learning through design challenges.
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The 2-day workshops include more tailored challenges, deeper method exploration and hands-on activities.
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Our experienced facilitators mentor each participant team through an end-to-end organizational challenge in a safe training environment so that all develop their problem-solving skills without risk.
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Ongoing mentoring, coaching, training and support can be included after the session to further ingrain the methodology into your organization.

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WHAT YOU GET

Benefit from our well established design thinking framework. Workshop participants will:

Explore the benefits of the Design Thinking methodology - discover user needs, extract insights, and leverage empathy to drive innovation.
Get hands-on experience with user research, diverging and converging techniques, and rapid prototyping.
Learn how to apply proven techniques to create change in your organization through this design thinking workshop. No design or coding skills required!

Ways we can work with you

PROJECT TEAMS

Fully supported, project-based team with a strategy and set deliverables, following our proven processes.

AUGMENTED TEAMS

One or more of our people integrated into your team to enhance and supplement your activities.

BESPOKE TEAMS

Mature teams in your organization, ready to deliver and scale up against your roadmap.

COACHING & MENTORING

Experts who work hand in hand with your team, transferring valuable skills and knowledge in the process.

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Our foundation

Experience thinking perspective

Experience Thinking underpins every project we undertake. It recognizes users and stakeholders as critical contributors to the design cycle. The result is powerful insights and intuitive design solutions that meet real users' and customers' needs.

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