Design Thinking Center, Moscow is a not-for-profit educational private institution created by a team of passionate believers and practitioners of Design Thinking in 2018 with a founding assistance of one of the oldest CX/UX teams – Wonderfull Laboratory.

We are founded to provide Russian professionals in product and design development, service design, T&D and other disciplines to build up their creative confidence and skills in Design Thinking according to world standards. “Our aim is to unite Russian practitioners with international
community of Design Thinkers”.

Design Thinking Center in Moscow is located in the city centre, occupying 450 sq.m. space at one of the oldest creative clusters. The space provides cutting edge workplace facilities for creative teams of varied size, being renovated in partnership with Steelcase, Moscow.

Design Thinking Center provides educational and certification programs for Russian-spoken professionals on Design Thinking, Customer Experience and Creative Team Working online and offline:

• Open courses and lectures,
• Corporate education,
• CX Academy,
• Innovation Accelerators,
• Design Thinking certification programs for coaches,
• CX Labs on product and service design,
• Design Thinking for Schools initiative.

Design Thinking Camp – is an international 3-days get-together for experts and practitioners online, being held annually by Design Thinking Center in Moscow. Each event gathers more than 600 people from all over the world to exchange experiences and get inspiration from cases, stories, practices and positive minds. Design Thinking Camp 2021 will be held on August 6-8 online.

Design Thinking Center in Moscow is led by one of the first Russian evangelists of Design Thinking – Maria Stashenko, Harvard Business Review, Russia contributor, scientific editor of Jeanne Liedtka, Michael Lewrick, Tim Brown and other Russian books editions of the globally renowned Design Thinking experts, consultant on customer experience for more than 20 years with 1200+ projects done for global companies in varied industries. Maria is an alumni of Hochschule Anhalt and Staffordshire University.

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