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Creative Intelligence

Creative Intelligence

Build your Design Influence

Overview

The Creative Intelligence Session begins with a dialogue about the kinesthetic energy of confident designers. How might we flex our creatively intelligent selves and lead our work through design? Session attendees will practice defending the value of design to organizational stakeholders in mock conversations – gaining experience defending the design process and building your design confidence.

Schedule + Outcome

  • Dialogue | Discuss how CQ builds a designers leadership
  • Practice | Run real-to-life scenarios to build confidence
  • Implement | Integrate a creative mindset through work

Structure

This is an instructor-led session held live over a remote Zoom call. (You will receive a Zoom link with your enrollment email). Each session is intended to foster a hands-on learning environment to engage in dialogue, practice the session material, and implement the learning into your design workflow.
 


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Confidence

Session Lead

Tyler Hartrich

Tyler is a product designer with a mission to create delightful digital experiences that deeply impact people’s lives. With an academic background in urban design, ecological systems design, and an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise, he approaches design problems with a human-centered methodology, focusing on building empathy throughout the design process.
 
He has worked with organizations spanning solar technology, electric bicycles, organization design, farm-to-fork food systems and climate impact analysis for local governments. Tyler is a current UXDI Immersive instructor at General Assembly in New York City.
 

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