Design academy
Vodafone
internal training
2018
The design academy is an 8-week course created for non-designers, specifically about design-related topics.
The challenge
On an offsite training we brainstormed about a possible way of training our own interns, channeling our knowledge for the benefit of both sides. This project became alive and materialized as an 8 course training session with 14 designers teaching the related field of theirs – like design thinking/psychology, design software, colours, offline design, online design, Powerpoint tricks, basic webdeveloping, Interactive surfaces, infographics, etc. The classes and the homeworks were aligned to eachother, each following class was based on the previous, and at the end the students had to present their endproduct with all the preferred homeworks made. We started the session for the marketing team only, with the possibility of spreading to enterprise level. The feedback spoke for itself immediately, the course filled up within 5 minutes, so we started an other one parallel to the first, shifted with 4 weeks .
I was teaching design thinking and within an other course design tools, composition and implementing them to Powerpoint. In the end, the whole academy remained within the Marketing, but the UK got so exctied about it that they made a training like this according to our plans, bringing the idea to a franchise level. During my years at Vodafone SSB I expanded my part to an individual 2 hours design thinking training and I held it two times with great succes.