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Brain-Based Design Thinking In-Person

Design-thinking is a methodical approach to creative problem-solving that emphasizes listening, information visualization, ideation and iterative project planning. It has achieved almost cult status, given its popularity at Stanford Design School and Harvard Business School. 

This “brain-based” design thinking workshop returns to the original research behind design thinking: it brings together 80 years of empirical research in cognitive and clinical psychology and behavioral economics to provide insight into how and why design thinking works. In this day-long workshop, real teams will learn and apply design thinking methods by applying them to existing projects.

Who should attend? 

  • Project managers and/or teams who want to learn new strategies for their work.
  • Anyone interested in thinking about new ways to solve problems.

Participants will learn:

  • to identify cognitive and other obstacles to creative problem-solving;
  • define a problem and goals by effectively interviewing partners and stakeholders;
  • collect, structure, visualize and interpret information related to a problem;
  • develop research questions that enable iterative development and effective project evaluation;
  • develop collaborative methods and sensibilities,
  • draft plans for current or up-coming projects.  

There will be a one-hour break for lunch at noon.

Capacity is limited. Please register to ensure a seat. Preference will be given to members of project-oriented teams who enroll together.

Date:
January 13, 2017
Time:
10:00am - 4:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Dalton 25
Host:
Library & Information Technology Services
Categories:
  Workshop  
Registration has closed.

Edward R. O'Neill, Ph.D. consults on instructional design and technology issues for Yale University's Center for Teaching & Learning. Prior to working at Yale, Dr. O'Neill consulted on learning technology and coordinated projects for almost four years at USC's Center for Scholarly Technology. Before that, Dr. O'Neill served as an instructional technologist for required undergraduate humanities courses and elective freshmen and sophomore seminars from across the disciplines.

Dr. O'Neill was awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Media and Technology at Bryn Mawr College and a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in Social Thought at UCLA. He has taught at UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz and USC's School of Cinematic Arts. Before working in higher education, Dr. O'Neill did marketing at Time-Warner and served as Assistant Editor of the MLA Bibliography.

Dr. O'Neill earned a Ph.D. from UCLA Film School and a B.A. from Yale College. He graduated from Yale cum laude with distinction in the theater and literature majors. He also studied instructional design at USC's Rossier School of Education and did graduate work at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales and the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Universite de Paris III).

Dr. O'Neill has written and published about American film and other topics in the Oxford History of World Cinema, CineAction and camera obscura, among others. He has also written a book about photography in the age of digital media: Untitled (After Cinema), published by Slought Press of Philadelphia.

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