I attended a workshop on Design Thinking, the tl;dr version is here (a PDF which I recommend especially for startups): http://dschool.stanford.edu/wp-content/u

I attended a workshop on Design Thinking, the tl;dr version is here (a PDF which I recommend especially for startups): http://dschool.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BootcampBootleg2010v2SLIM.pdf http://dschool.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Bootc... even better, try to get into the Stanford course (they give open, 4-hour workshops, the last one was full) http://dschool.stanford.edu/ http://dschool.stanford.edu/ Edit: they also have a virtual "crash-course": http://dschool.stanford.edu/dgift/ http://dschool.stanford.edu/dgift/ I was shown some of the materials students made (in full Stanford courses, not in the 4-hour introductory workshop :) ), and they were amazing. I observed that one thing Americans have over students in my home country/culture is, they're way more likely to learn how to make awesome presentations :) .