Classes 2014-2015
If you are a Stanford student, please see below for our current class offerings. Admission to all classes is by application.
If you’re not a Stanford student (or if you are a student but can’t wait for next quarter to try out design thinking) check out our Virtual Crash Course, which is a 90-minute introductory experience in design thinking. This page also has resources to help you continue your learning journey, wherever you are.
Spring 2015
Classes
Dive Into Design Thinking
Focus on Design Process to Build a Foundation in Design Thinking
Design Garage: A Deep Dive in Design Thinking
Tackle Big Challenges
Use Design Thinking to Make Impact through Real World Projects
Collaborating with the Future: Launching Large Scale Sustainable Transformations
Design for Extreme Affordability
Introduction to Legal Design
From Play to Innovation
Scaling Design Thinking Globally (when everyone isn’t in the same room)
LaunchPad: Design and Launch Your Product or Service
Design Thinking for Public Policy Innovators
d.compress: Designing Calm
Engelbart’s Unfinished Legacy
Hone Your Skills
Strengthen Your Capacity for Innovation, Design & Collaboration
Creative Gym: A Design Thinking Skills Studio
Creativity and Innovation
Fail Faster
Rapid Experimentation Lab
d.org: Prototyping Organizational Change
Pop-Up Classes
Application now closed
d.fundamentals
Learn the Building Blocks of Design Thinking
Life Transitions: Designing Your Return Home
d.skills
Build Your Design Thinking Toolkit
Special Effects Studio
Improv and Design
Motion/Graphics?: Investigating Improvisational Movement and Embodied Design Strategies
Change that has a Chance: Co-designing with Implementers
Teaming with Purpose–How to Brand Yourself and Your Team in Alignment with your Individual and Collective Purpose
d.advanced
Bring Your Design Thinking Practice to the Next Level
Expressive Interaction Design
d.media Studio Sessions
Streets, Squares & Roundabouts: Creative Tools for Urban Spaces
Activating Potential in Urban Space
Designing Banking and Payment Solutions for Mobile Users on Low-End Smartphones
Networking by Design
Iterating your Way to Healthy Behaviors
Need some help navigating the options? Check out these tools to see what classes are available to you and what categories they fit.
Graduate Student
Undergraduate Student
TEACHING
1. Are you interested in teaching a class at the d.school? See more information here.
2. Apply for the d.school Teaching Fellowship
Classes Taught in Past Years
Browse classes taught in past years. These classes may be taught again in the future.
Business Collaboration to Promote a Sustainable Food System
Collaborating with the Future: Launching Large Scale Sustainable Transformations
Creativity and Innovation (Winter)
Creativity and Innovation (Spring)
d.compress: Designing Calm
d.health: Design Thinking for Better Health
d.leadership: Design Leadership in Context
d.media: Designing Media that Matters
d.science: Design for Science
Design for Extreme Affordability (2 Qtrs)
Design Garage: A Deep Dive in Design Thinking (2 Qtrs)
Designing Liberation Technologies
Design Thinking Bootcamp
Design Thinking Studio: Experiences in Innovation and Design
Design Thinking for Public Policy Innovators
Designing for Sustainable Abundance
Designing the Way Up: Disruptive Solutions for Poverty in America
FEED Lab: Innovating in the Local Food System
Foundations of Design for Design Thinkers
Founder’s Studio: Guerrilla Tactics for Entrepreneurs
From Maps to Meaning
From Play to Innovation
Give Big or Go Home
Innovations in Education
LaunchPad: Design and Launch Your Product or Service
Prototyping and Rapid Experimentation Lab
Rebooting Government with Design Thinking
ReDesigning Theater: Interactive Art & Performance Design (2 Qtrs)
SparkTruck: Designing Mobile Interventions for Education
The Designer in Society
Understanding Superfans and Their Heroes
Engineering Innovation
Movie Design
StoryViz: Communication Redesigned
Building Innovative Brands
Design @ Intersection of Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
FEED the Change: Redesigning Food Systems
Game Design: Making Play
Humanize My Ride
Redesigning the Neonatal ICU
Pop-Up Classes
21st Century Schools Challenge
A d.school Sampler
Agile Feds: A Design Sprint
Bridging the Technology/Customer Divide in Big Data
Chocolate Head-Space
d.nature: Exploration in Biologically Inspired Design
Design for the Weary
Design Sprints for Startups
Design Thinking Basic Training
Design Thinking for Schools
Design Thinking Tonic – First Shot: People & Spaces
Design Your Startup
DESIGN.EDU
Designing Empathy Based Organizations
Designing Life, Essentially
Designing Organizations
Designing Your Leadership Legacy
EngagED: Redesigning the Classroom Experience
Flail or Flourish: The SuperPower of Resilience
Game Design: Making Fun
Get Smart: Making Complicated Information Simple
Give Big or Go Home
Giving Tuesdays for #GivingTuesday
Heartistry: Design Thinking from an Artist’s Perspective
How To Be a Cyborg
Human-Centered Sustainability
Improv and Design
Interactions with a Human Touch
Know Your Humans: Designing Effective User Research
Law by Design: Making Law People-Friendly
Leadership through Flow: Boxing, Dance, and Philosophy
Look Mom, I Hacked the Refrigerator! New Approaches to Designing and Prototyping Systems
Parks, Plazas, Public Spaces: Designing for Communities at Play
Prototyping Systems
Redesigning Criminal Justice
ReDesigning the Hospital Birth Experience
Sex & Design
Social Brands
Subjective Obsessive Beauty: Amplifying Your Creative Practice
Taming Tempation: Design for Self-Control
The Consumer Mind and Behavior Design
The Decay of Digital Things
The Future of Participation: Games, Storytelling, Music
The River of Life: Designing for Flow
Topics in Design Research: d.think Outside the d.school
Designing with Data
d.loops: Reimagining Sustainability
Needfinding in the Wild
Prototyping San Francisco
Scaling Sharing
Where Did You Go, Olympia Snowe?
Design for Everyday Social Good
Whizbang! Toy Invention
Designing Fun
d.media Pop Up Class: Visual Design Basics
From Maps to Meaning: MapLab
Get on the Truck! Building Creative Confidence with the SparkTruck Team
Getting to Trust in Conflict Environments
In the Heart of Social Movement
Notebook Neophyte to Whiteboard Warrior
#PML: Prototype My Life
Special Effects Studio
Open Eyes, Open Minds: Visual Thinking Strategies
Brainstorming Beyond Post-Its
Notebook Neophyte to Whiteboard Warrior
Iterate an Everyday Object
Research as Design: Redesign Your Research Process
Sticky Stories
The Art of Observational Research
Ritual Design: Designing Meaning into Everyday Experiences
Scaling Design, Thinking Globally
Redesigning the News Ecosystem
Special Projects
d.school-OpenIDEO Partnership: Unlocking Creative Confidence in Young People