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Help students unlock their creative confidence using Design for Delight

Give your students the power to tackle life's complex problems through hands-on experience with design thinking.

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Bring Design for Delight to your students with an online course


Our Design for Delight Foundations course is a free 8-hour online learning path that your students can take at their own pace. You don’t need a background in design thinking to take or teach this course—just a desire to stimulate your students’ minds. The course will help promote creativity, critical thinking, complex problem solving, and collaboration in your classroom. This course is intended for both educators and students to get started with design thinking.

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Bring Design for Delight to your students with an online course

Our Design for Delight Foundations course is a free 8-hour online learning path that your students can take at their own pace. You don’t need a background in design thinking to take or teach this course—just a desire to stimulate your students’ minds. The course will help promote creativity, critical thinking, complex problem solving, and collaboration in your classroom. This course is intended for both educators and students to get started with design thinking.

Features and benefits

Empower students to make an impact

Reframe challenges as opportunities and build the creative confidence needed to design the life they want to pursue.

Build durable skills for the future of work

Learn the most in demand job ready skill that can help students be successful in any career they choose.

Self-paced learning with modular-based resources

Teach an asynchronous course and access tools to bring design thinking into your classroom in a personalized way that works for you.

Depth training workshops and professional development

Enhance your teaching skills by becoming an Innovation Catalyst educator to facilitate teams and coach your students to reach bold outcomes.

What is Design for Delight?

It’s our unique approach to problem-solving and innovation—our not-so-secret sauce that we’re eager to share with you and your students. More precisely, Design for Delight is a set of principles that gives students hands-on experience in creative problem solving. It gives students the tools to identify big unsolved problems, gain customer empathy, run quick experiments with actual customers, test assumptions, pivot if needed, and much more.

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Deep Customer Empathy

Create shared understanding, insights, and the motivation to improve the lives of our customers. We gain empathy by observing people where and when they are experiencing pains or problems.

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Go Broad to Go Narrow

Focus on what matters most. When we “go broad,” we use our creativity to explore a variety of potential solutions. We “go narrow” by focusing on bold solutions most likely to delight our customers.

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Rapid Experiments with Customers

Put our solutions to the test. When we run experiments with real people, we quickly learn what works and what does not, saving valuable time and resources when making our next decision.

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The Why Behind Deep Customer Empathy

Discover why it’s so important to gain deep empathy for your customers.

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Design thinking in the classroom

World Economic Forum's Future Jobs Report

Design thinking has become a powerful business language used by many of the world’s most admired companies. It promotes complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, and other skills highlighted in the World Economic Forum’s Future Jobs Report. 

Teaching materials

Teaching toolkit

The toolkit is designed to help you teach the basics of design thinking in an interactive, problem-based format. Choose from a set of materials for a customizable intro to design thinking, for longer-term projects, or both.

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Student resources

Use virtual whiteboard templates on MURAL and access videos to share with your students for additional design thinking learning.

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Bringing design thinking to life

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An Educator’s Perspective: Q&A with Pat Hambright, Washoe County, NV

Pat shares his experience leading several teams through Intuit's Design for Delight course while competing during the Social Innovation Challenge.

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Using Design for Delight to Innovate

Students use Design for Delight during the Social Innovation Challenge to build innovative solutions, solving real-world problems.

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Podcast: Empowering Future Success

Don't miss this podcast featuring Intuit's VP of Corporate Responsibility, Dave Zasada, in conversation with Dr. Rebecca Corbin from the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship.

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Teachers and students love Design for Delight

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All of the students on our team took the Design for Delight course...they provided a lot of positive feedback. I will likely start using the framework and language in our curriculum instead of what we’ve been using.
Pat Hambright, AACT’s Business Academy
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Look to always improve your product, your service,and yourself. The bottleneck in your business is going to be yourself. So if you're constantly reading, asking questions, and you're constantly improving, then your business is also going to improve.
Andres Cardona, CEO Elite Basketball Academy
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We want these kids to be able to fail forward, so that they can be resilient. I really think they're going to transfer these [design thinking] skills to the workforce, and that's going to make for better employees all around. They're going to be able to think more critically and creatively and solve problems.
Kim Reiser, Business Services Teacher, Cherry Creek Innovation Campus
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The course gave us a structure for creating a solution and opened our eyes to a new way to approach solving a problem. For example, empathizing with the customer is so important, because it enables you to identify their needs and wants, and it’s the first step in creating a solution that the customer is looking for.
Sophia Xia, Jerricho High School
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The Design for Delight process helped us really think out of the box, because it teaches that every idea is valid.
Eliana Wang, Jerricho High School
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The creative process for coming up with our idea helped us cultivate analytical thinking, which is something we can use in any aspect of life.
Nikki Shah, Herrick’s High School