Global Certificate in Just Design Strategies

• Design Thinking: Understanding the user-centered design process, empathizing with users, defining problems, ideating solutions, prototyping, and testing.
• Sustainable Design: Exploring environmentally conscious design strategies, life cycle assessment, material selection, energy efficiency, and waste reduction.
• Inclusive Design: Considering diverse user groups, accessibility, cultural sensitivity, and user experience across different abilities, ages, genders, and backgrounds.
• Social Innovation: Examining design's role in addressing societal challenges, co-creation, participatory design, and community engagement.
• Design for Behavior Change: Analyzing psychological and sociological factors influencing behavior, applying persuasive design patterns, and nudging users towards positive actions.
• Design for Business: Balancing user needs, business goals, and market realities, integrating design into business strategy, and measuring design impact.
• Design Ethics: Deliberating ethical considerations in design, privacy, informed consent, transparency, and fairness.
• DesignOps & Team Collaboration: Managing design operations, coordinating cross-functional teams, and fostering a collaborative design culture.
• Emerging Design Trends: Exploring future-forward design trends, technology advancements, and their implications on design strategies.