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Human-Centered Design: Executive Briefing

by Matthew Pizzi

Human-Centered Design is a mindset that empowers an individual or team to design products, services, systems, or experiences that address the core problems users face.

What you'll learn

To make your design teams solve for problems with empathy for the actual people that will be using your products or service, embracing the Human-Centered Design mindset is an avenue for creating the best product or services for your customers. In this course, Human-Centered Design: Executive Briefing, you will get an overview of what Human-Centered Design is and what’s required to implement the philosophy in your organization. Next, you will learn about a typical process for Human-Centered Design. Finally, you will explore the mindset and principles of HCD to be able to create successful experiences that put the user's needs first. By the end of this course, you will understand the differences between Human-Centered Design and Design Thinking.

About the author

Matthew Pizzi is currently the Director of Product, Academy at Contentstack, where he spearheads the development of learning experiences that enhances how customers engage with Contentstack’s industry-leading composable CMS. His expertise in ed-tech leadership started by founding Train Simple, a leader in education for Adobe products and web technologies. Following the acquisition of Train Simple by Pluralsight in 2016, Matt played a pivotal role in overseeing key domains to further skills devel... more

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