Design Thinking – Applying a designer mindset to solving wicked problems

Talks Outline

Today’s generation is equipped with a creative and advanced mindset.

What if one could also add a designer mindset to the repository? We strongly assure you that it will expand the horizon.

All the trending contemporary businesses and business models thrive because they go out there and listen with an open heart and mind.

In this 60-minute session, you will get introduced to this powerful design thinking approach and explore the wide spectrum of possibilities existing in the design world.

Design thinking is meant for engineers, policymakers, lecturers, baristas, marketers, officers, bankers, parents, students, and, well, people from all walks of life can use it. We will enlighten you to employ some tools from a designer’s repository and develop solutions to solve problems creatively!! You will also learn a powerful tool that is effective in solving real-time problems!!

DATE: 26 OCT 2021

TIME: 4:00PM – 5:15PM

Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/3AYMpi1

About the Speaker

Ramya is the founder of Design Squiggle. She is a startup-design thinking expert and business model coach with over 10,000 hours of experience in innovation consulting and coaching. She is certified in design thinking, business modelling, and jobs to be done. Before Design Squiggle, she worked 7+ years with the Cognizant Innovation Group and the Cognizant Accelerator as an Innovation Consultant and Coach. She works with student entrepreneurs to build their business ideas into a successful business model. In addition, she works with some of Tamil Nadu’s leading Technology and Business Incubators, Institution Innovation Councils, and Entrepreneurship Cells. She specializes in setting up innovation strategy, opportunity identification, large-scale ideation campaigns, and facilitating rapid prototyping events like design service jams and hackathons, organizing large-scale Innovation summits, and global idea crowd-sourcing events.