Empathizing, Defining, and Ideating

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Empathizing, Defining, and Ideating prepares students to incorporate empathy-driven, user-centered design thinking in design solutions. This course focuses on the importance of empathy, research, and interdisciplinary collaboration in equitable design solutions. Students gain experience ideating with diverse workgroups to define the needs of users and stakeholders through research, determine audience segments and personas, and apply ideation strategies to create impactful, and meaningful user experience design concepts. © Western Governors University June 29, 2026 302