Course Tutor(s)

Stuart Young

Live Illustrator, Business Visualiser and Trainer

Stuart is a professional live illustrator with extensive traditional/ Agile Project management experience and a deep-rooted appreciation for Agile Principles and Methodologies. He has harnessed his creative skills to translate concepts and processes into engaging visuals during workshops, events and conferences. With international notoriety within the Agile Community, Stuart has provided his services at various Scrum Alliance Global Gatherings/ Retreats. In addition he has illustrated at an endless list of popular Agile conferences such as the Agile Testing Days in Berlin, the Lean Agile Scotland Conference and the London Lean Kanban event. By combining both creative and analytical skills Stuart contributes to team visioning/ planning workshops and retrospectives by offering captivating visuals that crystallise ideas and learning. When he’s not coaching, delivering training and live illustrating, Stuart is running a number of ‘Innovation through Visualisation’ workshops to support individuals to gain the confidence to draw and collaborate effectively. The newly gained skills assist teams to solve problems and map ideas with the use of graphic metaphors and additional visualisation techniques. Stuart joined Radtac in 2015 where he continues to assist individuals, teams and organisations with an array of visualisation services.

Course Content

You will be guided through key phases of the Design Thinking Process in a series of practical experiences:

• Explore a problem/ challenge, uncover real customer needs and build deeper empathy with end-users.
• Make use of tools and techniques to define the problem/ challenge space
• Collaboratively generate design concepts by applying visual thinking skills before converging on the most promising ideas.
• Build a low fidelity interactive digital prototype that can be tested in front of a live audience.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this workshop you will be able to:

• Understand how to transform customer needs into truly desirable customer-centric products
• Understand the benefits of empirical methods to enable rapid learning and idea validation
• Make use of a range of low-fidelity visual thinking and prototyping techniques to test ideas and solve problems

Audience

This course is aimed at anyone who wants to understand the theory behind Design Thinking and how to apply this human-centred approach back in the work place. The following individuals will benefit from this course:

• Team members
• Product Owners
• Scrum Masters
• Designers
• Workshop Facilitator
• Agile Analyst
• Trainers
• Facilitators
• Teachers
• Presenters
• Coaches
• UX Designers

Pre-requisites

(Optional) Pre-Task Research Guide

Course Preparation

This course does not require any pre-course preparation.

Certifying Bodies & Exams

This course does not include an exam.

What You Receive

You will receive one-day high quality instruction from Stuart Young. Also included are:

• Course materials and useful graphic templates
• Tools and techniques for generating ideas and solving problems.
• Refreshments before and during the course are provided (for courses on our public schedule)
• Radtac Community membership including face-to-face and virtual networking and knowledge sharing opportunities, access to industry experts, special offers and invitations to special events

Course Address

CCT Venues - Barbican, Aldersgate House, 135-137 Aldersgate St, London EC1A 4JA

Course Duration