If you are at Stanford getting a graduate degree and you're interested in being a part of the d.school, we have some great offerings this year.

Classes 2009-2010

Design Thinking Bootcamp: Experiences in Innovation and Design: Fall 2009
A d.school bootcamp class. Get a comprehensive introduction to design thinking and the d.school community. Follow the link for more information + the course application.

Entrepreneurial Design For Extreme Affordability: Winter and Spring 2010
Two quarters of design thinking, engineering and business skills to deliver comprehensive solutions for clients in emerging economies all over the world.

Cross Cultural Design: Winter and Spring 2010
Learn how to empathize with users in U.S. and China to better design real products and services for each culture.

Personal and Interpersonal Dynamics (PAID): Winter and Spring 2010
A weekly lab at the d.school to help you better understand yourself and others and to give you tools to lead improved communication in your teams.

Prototyping Change in Entrepreneurial Firms: Winter 2010
A small, team-based, multidisciplinary class. Students will apply the design process to specific organizational practices, particularly in start-up organizations. Examples of such practices include performance feedback/evaluation, employee onboarding, the design of jobs and company communication.

Transformative Design: Winter 2010
This project-based course investigates how interactive technologies can be designed to expressly encourage behavioral transformation.

K-12 Learning Lab Independent Projects: Winter 2010
Apply design thinking directly to K-12 education contexts.

From Play to Innovation: Spring 2010
Investigate the human "state of play," and use it to promote innovation in the corporate world.

media + design: Spring 2010
An advanced design thinking practicum unpacking user participation in new media.

Designing Liberation Technologies: Spring 2010
Small interdisciplinary project teams will work with selected NGOs to design new technologies for promoting development and democracy. Students will conduct observations to identify needs, generate concepts, create prototypes, and test their use.

Designing For Sustainable Abundance: Spring 2010
Sustainability doesn’t have to mean sacrifice and deprivation! In this hands-on, team-based, multidisciplinary class we will tackle real design challenges, attempting to increase sustainability hand-in-hand with abundance.

Launch Pad; Design and Launch Your Product or Service: Spring 2010
Apply principles of design thinking to the real-life challenge of imagining, prototyping, testing and iterating, building, pricing, marketing, distributing and selling your product or service.

No Teacher Left Behind; Rethinking the Traditional Teacher Role and Career: Spring 2010
A collaboration of the d.school, the School of Education and NewSchools Venture Fund, this class will give students access to those who are innovating in education, specifically human capital. Course projects will connect students with entrepreneurs, deepen their design thinking process and expanding their understanding of the k-12 teaching landscape.

Creativity and Innovation: Spring 2010
Every problem is an opportunity for a creative solution; this course helps students identify factors that promote and inhibit creativity.

Creative Gym; A Design Thinking Skills Studio: Winter 2010
Build your creative confidence and sharpen your design thinking skills. Train your intuition and expand the design context from which you operate every day.

d.school Summer College, Adventures in Design Thinking: Summer 2010
Adventures in Design Thinking is a week-long d.school bootcamp workshop offered to all Stanford graduate students through the Stanford Graduate Institute.

Ambidextrous Magazine: Ongoing
Ambidextrous, Stanford University's Journal of Design illuminates the people and places involved in design. Join the staff.

About d.school Classes

d.school classes strive to make our students more confident in their design process, to give them the skills to collaborate across both disciplinary and cultural boundaries, and to have an impact in the world. In the past few years, faculty from multiple academic disciplines have worked with interdisciplinary student teams on projects as small as reinventing the ramen noodle experience, to those as large as developing new market solutions to improve the lives of rural farmers living on just a few dollars a day.

d.school classes typically last 10 or 20 weeks and often consist of 20-40 students, with 2-5 members on the teaching team, plus coaches and industry and non-profit partners. They are loosely organized into themes or initiatives (social entrepreneurship, business and design, etc.) and are forums where participants get to tackle real world projects in order to learn more about design thinking and practice innovating together. Students who have completed classes are confident in their personal innovation process and able to collaborate on multidisciplinary teams. Big ideas that impact the world may emerge from a class, but our primary focus is on shaping students who go out in the world and have an impact.