Design thinking is a valuable tool with applications in education, business management, software engineering, graphic design, and more. Through our workshops, students learn to put these techniques into practice and cultivating skills in hands-on collaboration, problem solving, and outside-the-box thinking.
We hold workshops for all ages, from Yale School of Management to local elementary school students, and from 20-minute hackathon sprints to week-long design intensives. We explain the principles of design thinking, practice creativity through warm-up exercises, and collaborate in groups to build solutions for real problems. Within our team, we hold tutorials on human-centered design specifics, including user interviews, ideation, and prototyping.
If you are an educator, an entrepreneur, or are excited to bring Design Thinking to your group, please don’t hesitate to email us at yale@designforamerica.com and invite us to lead a (free!) workshop with you!
Yale Pathways to Science
This past year, we partnered with Yale Pathways to Science to promote science, technology, engineering, and math education for middle and high school students in the New Haven area. Challenged with the task of a virtual environment, the team carefully curated three, online mini-series over the course of the school year to teach New Haven students how to use the design thinking process. Each workshop taught the students how to immerse in and reframe their problem space, to prototype in collaborative applications like TinkerCAD, and to build and iterate refined products including physical models, 3D modeled worlds, and video games.
YHack: Undergraduate Hackathon at Yale University
The YHack event is a 36-hour hackathon that brings together students from all over the U.S. with different backgrounds together to create and build. Our club has partnered with the YHack organization to drive interest in the hackathon and participation among DFA studio members across the country.