From the course: Design Thinking: Design for New Experiences

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This class is about design thinking at its heart, but where I want to sort of put the twist on that is the idea of design action, and the sense that when you take these skills on as a designer, or just even learning a little bit about how designers work, it's going to put you in a different kind of mindset. It's going to give you a different kind of perspective on the world, and hopefully it's going to give you a perspective that is more proactive, more optimistic, give you the ability to see the possibilities for change, but not only see the possibilities and think about them, but to be able to produce something that is relevant and actionable to affect that change. So when we talk about the power of design to change the world, that's exactly what we mean is that you have these small moments, moments that are relevant to you and relevant to the people around you, and you have the ability to think about realistic possible change and bring that to life because design coming to life is…

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