Course: Design Thinking for Blockchain

Course Description

This course explores the Blockchain beyond the technology and coding side and introduces the Design Thinking framework and its added value to Blockchain use cases. It also shows how to prepare for a design thinking workshop to evaluate a business problem, identify business network and define the minimal viable product for a blockchain solution.

Learners will acquire the design thinking skills along with the business and technology experience, as well as they will be able to educate business users of the basic Blockchain Thinking so that they understand "what is a valid Blockchain use case" and what is not", how to select a Blockchain use case, and how to dismiss Blockchain from a business architecture.

What you'll learn

After completing this course you will be able to :

Explain a quick recap on Design thinking framework as a method of problem solving.
Determine whether blockchain might be useful for a particular business case and what tools that can help us make such decision.
Prepare for a blockchain design thinking workshop.
Apply design thinking framework to a Blockchain use case.

Requirements

Understanding the fundamentals of Blockchain.
Having some familiarity with design thinking framework.

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Reem Fahmy

NTERACTION DESIGNER USER EXPERIENCE CONSULTANT IBM DT CHAPTER LEAD EGYPT

With passion for the business world,Reem started her Career in IBM as a Visual designer then moved to leadership becoming the UX team leader for 3 years. Now, she put her creativity, experience and passion for researching in the human behavior and User Experience working as a UX / UI consultant adding to her path the Neilson Norman Usability certiﬁcation as well as the IBM Design Thinking coach badge.

Assigned the IBM Design Thinking Chapter lead in Egypt throughout her career, she has designed several branding output from logos to identity on web and mobiles, Delivered many look and feel sessions showing the power of colors and how they work to create the right sensation, the right experience. Also, she worked on User experience research and interviews clients, wrote surveys and gathered data from main personas.

Reem holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo as well as a double minor in Art and Economics.