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Design Thinking For Innovation

On-site Stockholm

Equip yourself for problem-solving with design thinking in action

Users, customers, humans? It’s people who drive business, and rethinking processes can do wonders for your bottom line. Learn to harness powerful design approaches to build empathy and insight to drive meaningful innovation. Equip yourself for problem-solving in the Digital Age and future design thinking.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

This course is for any specialists, generalists or managers who work with product, organizational, idea or business development — or for those who work with communication, customer/user experience, growth, strategy and innovation — in functional and cross-functional teams. This is a core skill for any professional working in a fast-moving environment who needs to make decisions and solve problems with others. 

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES
  • check Mastering the Design Thinking Framework
  • check Proficiency in planning and running design sprints
  • check Navigating culture and leadership
Design Thinking
Innovation
Facilitation
Tyler Vanderwal

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About the course

About our 2025 courses

Listen to Pär Hellstadius, Head of Learning Development, as he provides an overview of what you can expect from our course portfolio

What your days will look like

Topics, Frameworks, Methods & Tools that will be covered

Day 1 - What is Design Thinking expand_more expand_less
  • Team building, nurturing innovation and setting up a culture for learning, according to Hyper Island.
  • Introduction to Design Thinking: what it is and how you can facilitate innovation processes to ‘prepare for the unknown’.
  • Explore useful principles for practising design thinking, “the designer’s mindset” and switching between creating choices and making decisions.
  • Understand how different behaviors and mindsets help and hinder innovation processes, embracing a growth mindset.
Day 2 - Design Sprint in Action expand_more expand_less
  • Strengthen competence by putting ‘Day 1’ into action.
  • Explore frameworks, methods and tools to use while participating in a design sprint.
  • Reflect and share your learnings and insights, your struggles and successes.
  • What is needed to facilitate a Design Sprint. 
  • Design a session applicable to your context.
Day 3 - Learnings and Implementations expand_more expand_less
  • Learnings from the field: How the Experts use Design Thinking today.
  • Present your design session, get feedback and input on your design, and iterate.
  • Define concrete next steps to implement the design back in your context.
  • Solution-oriented team reflection — in smaller groups share your learnings.
  • Harvest insights and make a plan for your next steps on your design thinking learning journey.
Frameworks, Methods & Tools expand_more expand_less
  • Double Diamond Model
  • Ideation Techniques (Brainstorming, Mind Mapping, SCAMPER)
  • Prototyping Tools (Figma, Sketch, Paper Prototypes)
  • Design Thinking Process Framework
  • Innovation Diffusion Theory
  • Psychological Safety
  • Storytelling Techniques
  • Value Proposition Canvas

Learning Outcomes

By the time you finish this course you should have acquired the following knowledge and skills, which you’ll be able to use right away in your work, or add to your resumé:

Mastering the Design Thinking Framework

 Participants will experience and gain expertise in a range of practical methods, covering problem framing, user research, collaborative ideation, prototyping, and more, equipping them to apply these techniques effectively in real-world scenarios.

Proficiency in planning and running design sprints

Participants will learn how to manage the design sprint process, be able to apply it within their organization, driving- and making progress on innovation projects.

Navigating culture and leadership while solving cross-functional business challenges

Participants will acquire tactics to lower internal barriers to innovation and creative collaboration, facilitating a more open and innovative organizational culture that encourages collaboration and creativity.

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Meet your Course Leaders

Get to know the experts guiding your journey to success.

Pär

Pär Hellstadius

Pär has extensive experience of leading and supporting change initiatives in international companies. After 15 years in various HR roles, Pär also has a very good understanding of the challenges that managers face today and what managerial - and leadership capabilities that need to be cultivated to successfully meet those challenges.

Anders Lundkvist Hyper Island

Anders Lundkvist

Anders is an educator with a passion for guiding leaders through the challenges of navigating complexity. He has successfully trained over 2.500 professionals, earning a reputation for his engaging teaching methods and unwavering dedication to participants’ growth and success.

Receive and Share Your Certificate

You’ll receive a Professional Certificate via the Accredible platform within 1-2 weeks after completing the course.

Certificates are configured for uploading and sharing on LinkedIn or downloading as PDF.

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WHAT THEY SAY

Discover what our former students say about their experience.

Anne Verdaasdonk - Course participants

 “It was very hands on, with many tools you can immediately start applying in your workplace. I valued the opportunity to discuss day-to-day situations with the community. Having had the time to work with the learnings for a few months after I finished the course, both the learnings and tools are enabling better teamwork for our team.”


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Anne Verdaasdonk

Senior Digital Producer at Etcetera
Domenico Dargenio - Course participant

"I found the course to be highly experiential. I enjoyed the design of the journey, which was emotional and built on deep connections. It exceeded my expectations in every way, particularly as I didn’t know much about Hyper Island prior to joining. My experience helped to ‘validate’ the course/product for me and I was positively surprised."

 

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Domenico Dargenio

Consultant at Dardo Consulting
Nina Enroth - Course Participant

"Before taking the course I had been interested in the subject and studied bits and pieces here and there, so it was luxurious to be able to just enjoy the ride and suck in all the information. Most of what I learned I use at work daily. The course was an awesome experience for me."

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Nina Enroth

Account Director and Change Consultant at Ellun Kanat
Liam James - Course participant

"Each chapter of the course was crafted in a very purposeful way. Going into this with a growth mindset was key because it allowed me to be totally open to new ideas and approaches. Regardless of how much experience another course member had, there seemed to always be something to learn from each other."

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Liam James

Copywriter, Voice Over Artist & Storytelling Strategist

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Companies from all over the world partner with Hyper Island in order to equip their leaders to drive meaningful change.

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The Hyper Island Way™

Hyper Island creates learning experiences for individuals and organizations that helps them shape the future.
This is what we call The Hyper Island Way™.

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LEARN BY DOING

Build, create and experiment by creating opportunities to get hands on with the underpinnings of what’s driving change in business.

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FEEDBACK & DIALOGUE

Providing the essential communication techniques to realize inclusion and empathy for others through active listening, feedback and effective dialogue.

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GROUP DYNAMICS

Experiences rooted in the foundational tools, theory and models around group dynamics and team development such as IMGD (Integrated Model of Group Development).

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REFLECTION HABITS

Developing critical reflection habits for individuals and teams provides opportunity to amplify experience and outcomes.

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