DEREK HOIEM

LEADERSHIP | UX | CREATOR ECONOMY | XR

Design Thinking Crash Course

Amazingly, many people building products in technology companies still don’t have a fundamental understanding of how design plays a role in creating those products.  Apple is a multiple trillion dollar-valued company, largely because of their emphasis on design and Steve Jobs’ love of it. However, design is a strange mix of soft skills with science and engineering blended in. Then on top of it, we layer modern Agile practices, going from vague requirements to an Agile backlog. Here, I spell out the recipe for my secret sauce on how to do it.  If you want to follow along with a slide deck, click this link. To watch the video, just click the slide below.

Design Thinking Crash Course (Title Slide)