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Design Thinking 101: Innovation through the Design Thinking Process

Design thinking is an approach to creative problem-solving that prioritizes the person at the center of the problem, and then considers what is desirable and technologically-feasible solution. Teams across all industries, from healthcare to agriculture, participate in design thinking to improve collaboration, curiosity, and motivation.

This creative problem-solving process can be applied to almost anything by prioritizing the needs of a person and making their experience effortlessly enjoyable.

This workshop will dive into every step of the design thinking process to explore research, empathy as a critical skill, collaborative ideation, prototyping tools, and testing your ideas. We’ll learn from case studies and how to apply these findings and methods in your work or your own life.

What to expect:

  • You’ll discuss what design thinking is and how it is actually used in real environments

  • You’ll learn how you can implement these methods in your work or personal life


  • Sarah Lawrence is a designer, illustrator, and creative technologist living in Atlanta, Georgia. With her work spanning complex regional planning to branding new nonprofit initiatives, she has a knack for solving tough, design-driven problems. She's been featured in Fast Company, Quipsologies, 99U, and HLN – just to name a few! Sarah facilitates classes for organizations like TEDx, DesignMadison, and MODA too. She's a proud mother to an exceptionally good girl named Cocoa, who keeps her company at her desk, and many plants.

  • The Zoom link will be emailed to all participants 30 minutes before the workshop begins. If you have trouble logging in, please reach out directly to the community coordinator for this course at thomas@museumofdesign.org.

  • MODA reserves the right to cancel a program if registration for the event does not meet the minimum enrollment requirements. If MODA cancels a program, a full refund will be issued to all registrants.

    Participants may cancel up to 5 business days in advance for a 60% refund, elect to transfer their registration to another studio of equal or lesser price or donate the fee as a 100% tax-deductible gift to the museum.

  • Designers with different styles of learning or special needs are welcome in MODA public programs. We will be able to most effectively help everyone learn and enjoy this experience if we know about those needs in advance of the program. Please email thomas@museumofdesign.org. with questions or information.

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