Design Thinkers Academy London

20/09/2024

Become the change you want to see... Simple but incredibly significant.
We spoke to Tom Armitage at the to see how he makes change happen. Tom attended our Design Thinking Bootcamp course in October 2023. He believes design thinking has changed how he tackles challenges, making him more innovative.

Read the blog by following the link in the bio 🔗

22/08/2024

Big news! 💚🤝

DK&A and have partnered with to launch The Urban Hack – a new public Service Design programme for Lower Sixth students.

The pilot programme of The Urban Hack will take place in partnership with in Ealing, with the first component, a 3-Day Service Design Fundamentals Course, starting in October 2024.

We are looking for future programme partners to join us in the development of this project, as we expand into the next stages of The Urban Hack.

To join The Urban Hack conversation, contact Grace Boettcher at [email protected]

13/08/2024

🥇The results are in, Paris wins gold in sustainability for the 2024 breaking ground again, by hosting the first Olympic games run to a strict carbon budget.

Read the challenges they faced and how they embraced it, in our new blog: Paris Olympics win golf for sustainable design.

🔗 LINK IN BIO

20/02/2024

08/02/2024

What is a Stakeholder Value Network Map?
Once you have a concept, it’s important to explore the value it creates for your various stakeholders, including the end user. This tool helps you to consider your most important stakeholders and the benefits you’re generating with your solution.

Why are they useful?
A well-designed product, service or experience should create value for multiple people. The type of value will vary accordingly – such as trust, reputation, power, revenue or knowledge. Understanding the value your idea produces, enables you not only to assess the efficacy of your concept, but also to convince your key stakeholders of its wider merit.

It also helps to see a concept within a wider system and how it might directly or indirectly influence and affect different people, organisations and processes as part of a larger ecosystem.

06/02/2024

Mo-Ling Chui is a senior lecturer in Design Management and Cultures at London College of Communication, with 20+ years' experience delivering integrated marketing campaigns, large-scale brand activations, exhibitions, digital products and events including the Olympic Games and World Expos.

In her research and creative practice Mo-Ling applies ethnographic and human-centred design thinking approaches to social design projects, exploring themes around emerging and future identities, diversity and diaspora.

Mo-Ling is a Strategy Consultant & Coach for Design Thinkers Academy London and DK&A. You and your company can learn directly from her by joining the Mayor of London's Design Lab.

02/02/2024

We are a team of change-making designers. We do & teach.

Shaping bold strategies, products & services, leaving cultural legacies & creating Responsible Revolutions.

To us, design is the connection between creativity & innovation. It’s how we turn ideas into new value around the needs of users.

Are you a change maker & a risk taker?

31/01/2024

Systems Thinking Fundamentals

🗓️ 15 – 16 Feb, 2024

📍 London

Systems thinking is focused on exploring the dynamic connections and relationships that shape the world around us, and the underlying structures that drive events and outcomes. A better understanding of complex systems can have a huge impact on our ability to make change happen and anticipate consequences. Working on a live scenario with coaching and feedback throughout, this course will equip you with skills and perspectives that help you to do more collaborative and impactful work.

Find out more > https://designthinkersacademy.co.uk/products/systems-thinking-fundamentals

25/01/2024

FREE DOWNLOAD

What is a Service Advertisement Canvas?

A tool to help a team co-create the foundations of communications and marketing around a concept.

Why is it useful?

When it comes to building a story around a concept, it is useful to start early. This tool helps a team begin thinking about how language and visuals around a concept bring it to life.

Download here: https://designthinkersacademy.co.uk/blogs/resources/service-advertisement-canvas

23/01/2024

David Kester has been an advisor to government, industry and the third sector, for over 20 years pioneering new ways to turn social and business challenges into innovation and enterprise. Formerly chief executive of both the Design Council and D&AD, David is an honorary professor at Warwick Business School and the founder of DK&A and Design Thinkers Academy London.

David will be leading one of the masterclasses on our Design Thinkers Bootcamp > https://designthinkersacademy.co.uk/products/design-thinkers-bootcamp

19/01/2024

A team of change making designers. We do & teach.

Shaping bold strategies, products & services, leaving cultural legacies & creating Responsible Revolutions.

To us, design is the connection between creativity & innovation. It’s how we turn ideas into new value around the needs of users.

17/01/2024

DESIGN THINKERS BOOTCAMP
🗓️ When: 5 – 9 Feb, 2024
📍 Where: London

Immerse yourself in the design & innovation cycle for five fast-paced days.

Masterclass coaches:
Day 1: Becky Rowe, Ethnographer & Coach
Day 2: Joe Ferry, Brand & Experience Architect
Day 3: Arne van Oosterom, Creative Director & Coach
Day 4: Arnoud Koning, Design Thinking Facilitator
Day 5: David Kester, Managing Director

Design thinking gives us the tools we need to bring innovation to life. During our Bootcamp you will learn all the skills needed to be a design thinker and gain hands-on experience applying them to a real-life challenge. Our experienced facilitators will inspire, support and stretch your thinking, and each day starts with a masterclass from a design thinking expert to introduce you to each stage of the design thinking innovation process, illustrated by their own practical experience.

Find out more > https://designthinkersacademy.co.uk/products/design-thinkers-bootcamp