At Idean Design Academy, our goal is to create a dialogue about the transformative power of design thinking by sharing the knowledge, expertise, and practices we’ve established over the last 18 years as a user research and experience design agency. Our approach to design thinking helps people and businesses learn new ways of problem-solving, empowers them with leadership methods and life skills, and inspires compassion for others.

Leadership Design Academy

We offer a unique curriculum set that helps design leaders from startups to large organizations to solve real challenges they're facing. Our Design Leadership Framework provides a hands-on toolkit that will help you align your team, elevate the design culture in your organization, and improve workflow and communication across departments to enable your organization to build better experiences, products, and services for the marketplace.

Educators Design Academy

Our design practices can help educators in their mission to engage and inspire students by teaching collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and creativity skills in the classroom. We provide workshops and toolkits for teachers to learn and practice our approach so they can bring the power of design thinking into their classrooms.

Kids Design Academy

We’ve created a space for kids to unleash their imaginations and learn as they are actively making. Our workshops use hands-on activities that focus on creativity, empathy, and collaboration to help kids work together and develop problem solving skills.

The Academy gives solution-oriented tools and a mindset,
that I can take back to my team the next day. 

—Jill Gutterman, Global Digital Transformation Leader at 3M

I believe anybody who has to work with people or is trying to collaborate or create products or services, Idean Design Academy is suitable for them.

—John Suh, Executive Director, Hyundai Ventures