Design Thinking

What you'll learn

Design thinking has spread far beyond product design teams — it's now a problem-solving framework used in business strategy, education, healthcare, and more. This University of Virginia course on Coursera positions itself as the start of that journey, aiming to build core design-thinking competencies you can carry into whatever field you're already working in.

Who it's for

Pitched at beginners, it's a good fit whether you're a designer wanting to formalize an intuitive process, or a non-designer — a manager, founder, educator, analyst — who keeps hearing design thinking in meetings and wants to actually understand and apply it. No prior design background is assumed.

Why grab it

A university-backed course adds real academic weight to a term that's often thrown around loosely in business settings, and deepening your practice suggests this goes beyond a surface-level definition into something you can genuinely put to work. Since it's free to enroll, it's an easy way to add a legitimately useful, cross-disciplinary skill to your toolkit via Korshub.