Time Management

In This Course, You'll

• Get excited to innovate and get creative, even when you feel blocked. Learn a repeatable creative approach that'll help you generate strong concepts on demand, break through when you're stuck, and turn your best ideas into solutions users love. In this course, design legend and author of the bestselling book "Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)," Professor Alan Dix, shows you why the best ideas come from a structured process and gives you the toolkit to do it yourself. The World Economic Forum ranks creative thinking among the top skills employers want in any profession, today and through 2030. Whether you're starting out, switching careers, or in a senior role and want a process you can rely on, you'll turn creativity from something that happens to you into something you can switch on. No creative background needed.

• Make yourself invaluable by mastering a wide range of ideation methods so you never get stuck in one approach. To generate and explore new ideas, you'll apply Bad Ideas, Random Metaphors, and Arbitrary Constraints, and to refine and develop them, you'll apply Embrace Opposites, Multiple Classifications, and Teasing Apart, Piecing Together (TAPT). With Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats, you'll learn to guide a team to see a problem from every angle. You'll also learn to build an environment that nurtures creativity and to remove the hidden barriers that hold people back. You won't just have better ideas, you'll help everyone around you have them too. As AI churns out endless options, it's your timeless, human-centered design skills, like understanding people and what they actually need, that ensure your solutions are genuinely new and useful.

• Gain confidence and credibility with a creative process that helps you be productive even under pressure. You'll learn to plan and time-manage your work so good ideas arrive when you need them, and apply proven strategies to beat procrastination, bias, and fixation. You'll keep momentum going with busywork, recognize when stepping back to let an idea incubate is the smartest move, and tackle big, messy "wicked problems" without stalling. When you hit a wall, you'll know whether to push through, switch to something else, or step away, instead of forcing it. And because your best ideas often arrive in the shower or on a walk, not at your desk, you'll learn simple ways to capture them before they slip away. The result is a process you can rely on, so you deliver strong work whether the spark comes on schedule or not.

• Craft your personal portfolio with a piece that clearly captures your entire creative process. With optional, hands-on activities, you'll build a case study that shows how you ideate, from a ready-made persona and empathy map through to a fully developed concept. Downloadable templates let you apply your new skills immediately. You walk away able to show employers and clients what a polished mockup alone doesn't: how you actually approach and solve problems.

Learn From Industry Leaders

Master complex skills with proven best practices and toolkits directly from industry leaders. Meet your experts for this course:

• Alan Dix: Author of the bestselling book "Human-Computer Interaction" and Director of the Computational Foundry at Swansea University.

• Don Norman: Father of User Experience (UX) Design, author of the legendary book "The Design of Everyday Things," and co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group.