NEW! Human Design Pattern Thinking with Tyson Rydl
What You Will Learn
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Conduct in-depth user research and develop empathy tools
- Ideate and explore creative problem-solving techniques
- Facilitate and leading design thinking exercises
Description
Ready to take your human-centered design thinking skills to the next level? This immersive two-day workshop empowers you to master innovative ideation techniques, rapid prototyping, and iterative testing, transforming insights into impactful solutions. You'll gain hands-on experience integrating user feedback directly into your projects and build the confidence to lead engaging design thinking sessions within your organization.
You will deepen your comprehension of user research by practicing structured interviews, observational techniques, and synthesizing insights into detailed empathy maps and personas. Learn to translate user insights into actionable tools that guide project decisions, ensuring a strong user-centered foundation for your projects.
Explore advanced ideation methods, including structured brainstorming, SCAMPER, and brainwriting techniques, to generate innovative and practical solutions. Emphasis on facilitation skills, idea prioritization, and refinement, to encourage confident leadership of creative problem-solving sessions within your teams.
Develop a customer-centric mindset, learning how to understand the stakeholders you're designing for changes everything from requirements gathering, to solution development, and implementation.
Transform user insights into actionable tools, create compelling empathy maps, design personas that bring user perspectives to life, serving as reminders of who your stakeholders are.
Integrate design thinking into your project framework and discover practical ways where design thinking creates the most value in the project lifecycle and how to measure its impact.
AGENDA
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Day One
- Practice structured user research methods, including interviews
- Explore advanced ideation methods
- Hands-on prototyping exercises
- Conduct structured user testing sessions
- Practice planning, structuring, and facilitating design thinking exercises
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- Hands-on prototyping exercises
- Practice planning: structuring and facilitating
- Practice planning: design thinking exercises
- User Testing and feedback integration
- Conclusion - final peer review of design pattern thinking
PDU Allocation Table
Ways of Working | Power Skills | Business Acumen | Total | |
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CAPM® / PMI-CP™ / PMP® / PgMP® | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14.00 |
PMI-ACP® / Agile* | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
PMI-SP® | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
PMI-RMP® | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4.00 |
PfMP® | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
PMI-PBA® | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
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Instructor(s)

Tyson Rydl PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-SCP, PMI-RMP, PMI-PMOCP, DASSM, CSP-SM, SAFe Agilist, Citizen Developer
Teaching and serving as a PMI SME for many certification and eLearning course updates is a passion. You can find him at the intersection of delivering cloud services, cyber security, skills-based training, and program management.