15 Best Design Thinking Courses on edX
We compared 15 Design Thinking courses currently listed on edX, priced from $48.98 to $1,213.20. 10 come from a named university or institution, including Institute of Product Leadership (IPL), Rochester Institute of Technology and Adelaide University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $48.98 – $1,213.20
- Providers
- edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, matched to "design thinking" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $48.98 to $1,213.20, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Design Thinking for Business Leaders
Offered by Institute of Product Leadership (IPL)
Design Thinking is an approach that enables even the most traditional thinkers to think innovatively. This course covers the fundamental concepts of Design Thinking for Product Leaders
$49.00listed price -
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Design Thinking: Ideation, Iteration and Communication
Offered by Rochester Institute of Technology
Learn how ideas transform into solutions through iteration and validation along with best practices for communicating your solution to stakeholders.
$337.00listed price -
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Design Thinking: Empathizing to Understand the Problem
Offered by Rochester Institute of Technology
Learn how to identify and understand product or business problems through active listening, empathy and user-focused research.
$337.00listed price -
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Design Thinking
Offered by Rochester Institute of Technology
This course on Design Thinking offers a practical approach to problem-solving that encourages creativity and innovation. You'll explore methods to understand user needs, brainstorm ideas, and develop prototypes that addr...
$1,213.20listed price -
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Design Thinking: Prototyping and User Testing
Offered by Rochester Institute of Technology
Learn the importance of prototyping and user testing solutions before going to market and how to assess and evaluate solutions post-launch.
$337.00listed price -
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Design Thinking Fundamentals
Offered by Rochester Institute of Technology
Learn how a user-centered approach and design thinking principles inspire innovative ideas to create desirable solutions.
$337.00listed price -
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IoT Systems and Industrial Applications with Design Thinking
Offered by École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
The first MOOC to provide a comprehensive introduction to Internet of Things (IoT) including the fundamental business aspects needed to define IoT related products.
$169.00listed price -
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Create Innovative Teams with Design Thinking
Offered by Adelaide University
Discover how to implement design thinking principles and methods to support team innovation and idea generation.
$125.00listed price -
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The Citizen Developer Mindset: Creating Business Solutions with Design Thinking
Offered by The University of Maryland, College Park
Learn how to use design thinking to create training programs to teach citizen developers in design thinking.
$249.00listed price -
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Human-Centered Design for Work at a Distance
Offered by University of British Columbia
This course on human-centered design at a distance explores strategies to effectively engage with teams and clients remotely. It emphasizes understanding user needs and applying design principles in virtual environments,...
$286.20listed price -
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Designing for Change: Environmental Education Research and Practice.
Offered by Stanford University
Have you ever wondered how research in psychology, learning sciences, environmental studies, and other fields might be relevant to your environmental education work? Are you curious about where to find and how to use the...
$48.98listed price -
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Customer-Centric Innovation
Offered by RWTH Aachen University
Learn to take on competition by creating successful and innovative ideas for your business through a thorough understanding of your customers’ needs.
$249.00listed price -
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Worldviews - From Sustainability to Regeneration
Offered by ETH Zurich
This MOOC is the first part of an interconnected series of four MOOCs on Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems (DRRS) which bring together science, design and transformative praxis as a fluid, intervention-based and s...
$50.00listed price -
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Human-Computer Interaction
Offered by The Georgia Institute of Technology
This course on Human-Computer Interaction explores how users interact with technology, focusing on design principles that enhance usability and user experience. You'll learn to evaluate and implement design strategies th...
$428.40listed price -
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Product Design & Health
Offered by Delft University of Technology
This course explores the intersection of product design and health, offering insights into how well-crafted products can significantly improve health outcomes. Participants will gain an understanding of effective design...
$315.00listed price
Best Design Thinking Courses on edX compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Design Thinking for Business Leaders | edX | Institute of Product Leadership (IPL) | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Design Thinking: Ideation, Iteration and Communication | edX | Rochester Institute of Technology | $337.00 | View → |
| 3 | Design Thinking: Empathizing to Understand the Problem | edX | Rochester Institute of Technology | $337.00 | View → |
| 4 | Design Thinking | edX | Rochester Institute of Technology | $1,213.20 | View → |
| 5 | Design Thinking: Prototyping and User Testing | edX | Rochester Institute of Technology | $337.00 | View → |
| 6 | Design Thinking Fundamentals | edX | Rochester Institute of Technology | $337.00 | View → |
| 7 | IoT Systems and Industrial Applications with Design Thinking | edX | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne | $169.00 | View → |
| 8 | Create Innovative Teams with Design Thinking | edX | Adelaide University | $125.00 | View → |
| 9 | The Citizen Developer Mindset: Creating Business Solutions with Design... | edX | The University of Maryland, College Park | $249.00 | View → |
| 10 | Human-Centered Design for Work at a Distance | edX | University of British Columbia | $286.20 | View → |
| 11 | Designing for Change: Environmental Education Research and Practice. | edX | Stanford University | $48.98 | View → |
| 12 | Customer-Centric Innovation | edX | RWTH Aachen University | $249.00 | View → |
| 13 | Worldviews - From Sustainability to Regeneration | edX | ETH Zurich | $50.00 | View → |
| 14 | Human-Computer Interaction | edX | The Georgia Institute of Technology | $428.40 | View → |
| 15 | Product Design & Health | edX | Delft University of Technology | $315.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $48.98 to $1,213.20, with the middle of the range around $286.20 — a spread of $1,164.22. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from edX. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 10 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Institute of Product Leadership (IPL), Rochester Institute of Technology and Adelaide University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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