Course Description
1-Day Leveraging AI in Prototyping for Impactful Innovation
Course Title: From New Ideas to Validated Solutions: Leveraging AI in Prototyping to Deliver Desirable, Feasible, and Viable Innovations for High-Impact Results Certificate Training Course
Language: Cantonese (粵語) with English Materials
Course Objectives
As an innovation leader driving business growth, organizational change, and digital transformation, your ability to think strategically and act decisively can determine the success or failure of your initiatives. In a world where rapid innovation is the norm, prototyping has become an indispensable tool for testing ideas, validating assumptions, and refining solutions before committing to full-scale implementation.
The right prototyping tools and processes enable you to reduce risks, streamline decision-making, and align your vision with user needs and market demands. Whether you’re spearheading a market expansion initiative, redesigning customer experiences, or optimizing internal workflows, prototyping allows you to evaluate possibilities quickly, pivot when necessary, and ensure innovation delivers tangible results.
This course focused on helping you master advanced iterative prototyping and user testing techniques of the Design Sprint Method, with an emphasis on validating solutions from the following three key dimensions:
- Desirability: Does the solution meet user needs?
- Feasibility: Is the solution technically achievable?
- Viability: Is the solution economically sustainable?
Global leaders such as 3M, Citibank, Coca-Cola, HSBC, LEGO, and IKEA have already leveraged design sprints to revolutionize product design, achieving efficient growth and market advantages. This approach has also delivered breakthrough results in both international and local markets:
- 3M: Successfully digitized traditional sticky notes, achieving disruptive product innovation and expanding application scenarios by 100 times.
- A leading Hong Kong bank: Developed an innovative customer retention strategy, generating an additional HKD 3 billion in revenue.
- The Indian government: Redesigned a national identity system covering 1 billion citizens, significantly improving efficiency and user satisfaction.
- A Hong Kong community innovation project: Reduced a traditionally 26-week process to just 1 week, dramatically improving efficiency.
- A Swiss international bank: Successfully penetrated the youth market, generating additional revenue of CHF 700 million (approximately HKD 5 billion).
- The Palace Museum in China: Launched cultural and artistic products that achieved sales of RMB 300 million within just 10 days.
In this course, you will complete at least three rounds of prototyping and testing to ensure your solution is thoroughly validated from all angles. Additionally, the course integrates cutting-edge AI tools and frameworks to optimize the validation process, making the entire workflow faster, smarter, and more efficient.
Targeted participants:
- Design Thinkers: Graduates of the Design Thinking Fundamentals Course who aim to master advanced prototyping and user testing techniques.
- Innovation Leaders: Professionals driving impactful change by validating solutions that align with user needs, technical feasibility, and market realities.
- Product and Design Teams: Teams focused on creating balanced solutions that meet the criteria of desirability, feasibility, and viability.
- Entrepreneurs and Startups: Innovators seeking to validate ideas efficiently, minimize risks, and accelerate time-to-market.
Early Bird Price
HKD 4,250 (up to one month prior to the start of the course)
Length
1-Day
Language
Cantonese with English Materials
Standard Price
HKD 4,500
Involvement
8 hours per day
Course Type
In-person
About this course
This course equips you to leverage AI-powered tools and methodologies to design, prototype, and validate user-centered solutions for desirability, feasibility, and viability within the Design Sprint framework.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Design and execute iterative prototyping and user-testing processes to validate ideas across desirability, feasibility, and viability dimensions.
- Leverage AI-enhanced tools (e.g., GPT, DALL·E, AICG, AR/VR, Sentiment Analysis, and Social Listening) to efficiently create prototypes, analyze user feedback, and optimize the solution validation process.
- Develop a comprehensive solution validation strategy using tools such as Learning Cards, Testing Cards, Risk Assumption Matrices, and Prototyping Strategy Maps to ensure user-centered, data-driven innovation.
- Utilize over 50 advanced AI-driven prototyping tools, categorized into three core areas (Functional, Interactional, and Call-to-Action Prototyping), to transform creative concepts into impactful and innovative outcomes efficiently.
Remark: This course is day 3 of the 3-Day Design Sprint Certificate Training Course
Learning approach: Learning by Doing (Practices: 50% | Lecturing: 20% | Case study: 20% | Reflection: 10% )
Case Studies:
- Hong Kong (Business Sector): A Design Sprint project generated over HK$3 billion in business growth for the Hong Kong banking sector.
- Hong Kong (Social Sector): A 2-day AI-driven Design Sprint co-created a community-centered design journey for the Hong Kong Fabric Market.
- Switzerland (Business Sector): Development of the Swissquote mobile app and asset growth strategy targeting young users.
- India (Public Service Sector): A 10-day Design Sprint transformed digital document experiences for over a billion Indians, driving nationwide adoption.
- Global (Business Sector): Digitizing Post-it® Notes into the 3M App through a Design Sprint expanded market reach significantly.
What you'll learn
This interactive course is designed to equip you with the Design Thinking and Design Sprint mindset, tools, and skills necessary to drive bold innovations. Engage in a dynamic learning journey that includes highly interactive sessions and culminates in collaborative group work focused on addressing a human-centered challenge. Our commitment to a “learning-by-doing” philosophy guarantees practical application and immediate implementation of the concepts taught.
Pre-Course Preparation
Before the course begins, participants will receive a comprehensive set of learning materials, including pre-course readings and videos, to foster a preliminary understanding of Design Sprint concepts.
This preparatory phase is designed to help participants develop a readiness mindset and maximize their learning effectiveness by utilizing the pre-course materials provided.
Session 1: Design Sprint Execution Model
1. Understanding the Four Stages of a Design Sprint: Overview of the structured process—Discover, Define, Develop, and Iterative Deliver stages.
2. Key Roles and Responsibilities: Clarifying team roles, users, and stakeholder involvement to ensure sprint success.
3. Developing the prototyping strategies with Risk Assumption Matrices, Learning Cards and Testing Cards
Session 2: Deliver Stage - Functional Prototyping for Validating Desirability
1. Building User-Centered Prototypes: Develop prototypes that address user needs, preferences, and pain points to ensure desirability.
2. AI-Driven Rapid Prototyping: Use tools like DALL·E for generating visual designs, GPT for creating user journey narratives for producing quick content prototypes.
3. User Testing Insights: Leverage sentiment analysis tools to evaluate user feedback and uncover emotional responses to prototypes.
Session 3: Deliver Stage - Interactional Prototyping for Validating Feasibility
1. Simulating Interactions: Create prototypes that demonstrate functionality and test workflows for technical feasibility.
2. AI-Enhanced Feasibility Testing: Leverage AR/VR tools to simulate complex interactions, GPT to document workflows to enhance prototype interactivity.
3. Collaboration Through AI: Use Miro for collaborative mapping, ChatGPT for technical problem-solving, and AI-driven performance analysis tools to identify bottlenecks.
Session 4: Deliver Stage - Call-to-Action Prototyping for Validating Viability
1. Testing Business Viability: Align prototypes with business goals to ensure financial and operational sustainability.
2. Call-to-Action Design: Create prototypes that test user willingness to act (e.g., sign-ups, purchases, or commitments).
3. AI Tools for Viability Analysis: Use predictive analytics and, social listening tools to gauge market sentiment to refine new solutions
Follow-Up Session
Participants will benefit from the post-course follow-up sessions designed to assist them in overcoming challenges related to applying Design Sprint techniques in their daily work environments. This support is crucial for translating the learning experience into practical workplace performance.
Meet your coaches
Our coaches are seasoned and certified Design Thinking facilitators with Design Sprint project experience. They will share their extensive experience and effective strategies for implementing Design Sprint in innovation projects and organizational transformations. This practical approach enables you to integrate Design Thinking and Design Sprint principles immediately into your daily work environment.
David Chung
Dean of DTA China, Senior Facilitator
Dean of DTA China (and HKSAR), Senior Design Thinking Facilitator, Certified Innovation Professional (Level 4), Certified LEAN Leader, and Doctoral Candidates of Innovation Management
Certificate
Suppose you are not a graduate of the Design Thinking Fundamentals Course, upon completing this course and meeting the attendance requirement. In that case, you will receive a DesignThinkers Academy “AI-Enhanced Iterative Prototyping and User Testing Training Course Certificate”. The course certificate is an advanced digital credential created using blockchain technology.
Suppose you are already a graduate of the Design Thinking Fundamentals Course upon completing this course and meeting the attendance requirement. In that case, you will receive a DesignThinkers Academy AI-Enhanced Design Sprint Training Course Certificate, recognizing your mastery of the end-to-end design sprint methodology. The course certificate is an advanced digital credential created using blockchain technology. Please note that this opportunity will only be available until December 31, 2025.
