Design Thinking for Fashion & Product Innovation

Course Overview

  • Duration: 12 Weeks (3 Months)
  • Format: Hybrid (100 % Online)
  • Level: Beginner to Intermediate
  • Target Audience: Designers, Engineers, Fashion Professionals, Product Developers, Entrepreneurs and Design Students

Course Structure

ModuleDurationMain FocusCore Output
1. Understand and DefineWeeks 1–4User research, market understanding, and problem framingDesign challenge and user insight report
2. Ideate and DevelopWeeks 5–8Creative concepts, technical feasibility, and prototypingSelected product concept and prototype
3. Test and InnovateWeeks 9–12User testing, refinement, business viability, and presentationValidated final product proposal

Module 1: Understand and Define

Focus: Empathy and problem framing

Key topics:

  • Introduction to design thinking and human-centered innovation.
  • Fashion and product innovation opportunities.
  • User personas
  • Interviews, observation, surveys, and trend research.
  • Understanding user pain points, motivations, habits, and aspirations.
  • Fashion lifestyle, comfort, functionality, sustainability, and cultural context.
  • empathy mapping.
  • Converting observations into user insights.
  • Defining a problem statement

Module 2: Ideate and Develop

Focus: Idea generation and prototyping

Key topics:

  • Creative thinking and divergent versus convergent thinking.
  • Brainstorming
  • Mind mapping, sketching, and rapid concept generation.
  • Material, technology, and manufacturing exploration.
  • Sustainable design and circular product thinking.
  • Low-fidelity and functional prototyping.

Module 3: Test and Innovate

Focus: Validation, refinement, and final presentation

Key topics:

  • Designing a user-testing plan.
  • Usability, comfort, fit, function, and aesthetic testing.
  • Testing prototypes with real users.
  • Gathering qualitative and quantitative feedback.
  • Identifying design failures and improvement opportunities.
  • Iterative prototyping.
  • Product-market fit and value proposition.
  • Basic pricing, positioning, and go-to-market planning.
  • Sustainability, inclusivity, and ethical production.
  • Presenting design decisions through storytelling.
  • Creating a final innovation portfolio.

COURSE POSITIONING

Learn to move from:

PROBLEM → RESEARCH → INSIGHT → IDEATION → CONCEPT → PROTOTYPE → TEST → INNOVATION → MARKET


Course Fee : 3000/- INR

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