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Design Thinking: Ideate

Unlock your team’s creativity with Ideate, the third phase of Design Thinking. Learn how to generate, evaluate, and refine ideas using proven techniques—so you can confidently move from defining the problem to designing innovative solutions.

Matthew Pizzi - Pluralsight course - Design Thinking: Ideate
by Matthew Pizzi

What you'll learn

Coming up with great ideas can feel overwhelming—especially when you’re staring at a blank page or trying to align a team. In this course, Design Thinking: Ideate, you’ll learn to confidently generate and refine creative solutions to well-defined problems. First, you’ll explore how to use divergent thinking to spark a wide range of ideas. Next, you’ll discover practical ideation techniques like brainstorming, Crazy 8s, and SCAMPER. Finally, you’ll learn how to evaluate, filter, and select the most promising ideas to move forward. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of the Ideate phase needed to lead engaging ideation sessions and build a strong foundation for prototyping.

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Matthew Pizzi - Pluralsight course - Design Thinking: Ideate
Matthew Pizzi

Matthew Pizzi is an Adobe Certified instructor with over 15 years of experience teaching Adobe applications.

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