The course focuses on providing students with cutting-edge achievements in design thinking globally in a rich and comprehensive learning experience. The highlights of the course are as follows:

1. Interdisciplinary, Cross-Field, and International Teaching Approach

The course content covers areas such as technology, culture, art, human-centered design, and business. We invite experts from various fields, both domestic and international, to participate in teaching.

2. Innovative Teaching Model Without Time and Space Limits

All people can access the course for free at any time. Additionally, we conduct teaching through online live broadcasts, reaching 46 universities and more than 89,000 students and teachers.

Through this course, you will understand the concept, history, and current status of design thinking, and master the process, framework, methods, and related tools of design thinking, and be able to combine innovative design development paths to solve real-world problems and then gradually develop innovative entrepreneurial practices.

The main contents of the course are as follows:

1. Curriculum with cross-disciplinary, cross-domain, and cross-border features, which cover six aspects of Innovation Design: technology, culture, art, humanity, commerce, and integrated design. It also offers six steps of Design Thinking: "Needs Understanding,” “Problem Definition,” “Divergent Thinking,” “Prototype Design,” “Iterative Model,” and “Product Release." What's more, we incorporate domestic and international practices, which makes the curriculum cross-disciplinary, cross-domain, and cross-border.

2. Knowledge system of Innovation Design + Design Thinking + Entrepreneurship Practice, which basically covers most of the current knowledge required for innovation and entrepreneurship and achieves a deep integration of innovation and entrepreneurship education.

3. An integrated model of "innovation + entrepreneurship" capacity development. We will systematically and comprehensively foster your innovation and entrepreneurial abilities in the spirit of "learning through contest and teaching through contest" and in response to the call for "mass entrepreneurship and innovation".

The course is oriented to practical problems, based on the faculty of Zhejiang University, and also employs teachers, researchers and practitioners from domestic universities and colleges as instructors, integrating interdisciplinary, cross-domain and cross-border resources, aiming to effectively enhance students' innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities.

Part of reference list.

1. Positive Computing：Technology for Wellbeing and Human Potential, Rafaeo Calvo, Dorian Peters et al., translated by Kejun Zhang, Baixi Xing, Lekai Zhang and others, 2018

2. Business Model Evolution, by Chai Chunlei, Machinery Industry Press, 2018

3. Innovation via Design Thinking, Keyue Wang, Linlin Shui, Hao Jiang, Tsinghua University Press, 2017

4. Strategy Research on Innovation Design, Chinese Academy of Engineering's Major Consulting Project Group on Innovative Design, 2016

5. The Design of Everyday Things 1-4, by Donald Norman, CITIC Press, 2016

6. Flipping Entrepreneurship with Design Thinking， Shaoji Du, Machinery Industry Press, 2016

7. Innovation Design Thinking: A Handbook of Design Thinking Methodology and Practice,Bainian Lu, Tsinghua University Press, 2015

8. Killer UX Design: Create User Experiences to Wow Your Visitors, Jodie Moul et al., translated by Shiwei Cheng, Lingyun Sun and others, 2014

9. Delft Design Guide: Design strategies and methods, School of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press, 2014

10. Technology Entrepreneurship: The Practice of Entrepreneurial Thinking Processes, Shuancheng Wei, Yang Cao, Tsinghua University Press, 2014

11. IDEO, Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspire Innovation, by Tim Brown, translated by Ting Hou, 2011