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Learn Design Thinking: Ideation

Learn how to ideate and brainstorm possible design solutions based on user research.

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    Beginner
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    <1 hour
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About this course

A large part of becoming a designer is honing your creativity. Designers often have processes and practices they use to aid them in coming up with ideas and solutions. In this course, you’ll learn about methods for defining a problem to solve and ideating potential solutions to the problem.

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Meet the creator of the course
Jiwon Shin
Senior Curriculum Developer at Codecademy
Jiwon is a Senior Curriculum Developer at Codecademy. She has created courses across the web development catalog on languages such as JavaScript, PHP, and CSS, frameworks like React and Node.js, and the Front-End Engineer Career Path. She also created courses on p5.js, build tools, and Intro to UI and UX Design.

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