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STUDIO: SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT AND LAUNCH

Turn Your Design Vision into a Real-World Solution

This course guides you through the final stages of the design process, from refining concepts to launching a high-fidelity prototype. Through rapid iteration, experimentation, and stakeholder engagement, you’ll validate your ideas, refine business and design strategies, and develop a polished, compelling final presentation.

Course Summary

Gain hands-on experience in refining and testing a design solution, learning to prototype, experiment, and synthesize feedback to create a compelling final concept. You’ll develop skills in business modeling, stakeholder engagement, and storytelling, equipping you with the tools to present and launch your work with confidence.

Key Details

  • Format: Live instruction from AC4D faculty, including office hours

  • Schedule: Sundays 6-9 PM & Thursdays 5-6 PM CST

  • Duration: 20 weeks

  • Tuition: $4,000 $2,550

  • Location: Remote

Upcoming Courses

  • 📆 November 10, 2025

  • 📌 Enrollments close approximately two weeks before each course begins.

This course will enable you to:

  • Develop and refine a cohesive design solution for a real-world social or business challenge.

  • Prototype and test solutions at varying levels of fidelity, from sketches to high-fidelity models.

  • Conduct rapid experimentation to validate concepts and iterate based on real-world feedback.

  • Build a business model and value proposition that supports your design.

  • Engage stakeholders and incorporate insights to improve your project.

  • Create an effective pitch and storytelling strategy to present your work.

  • Design within time, budget, and resource constraints to execute a viable product or service.

  • Develop a roadmap for future implementation and growth beyond the course.

  • Work within a design team, leveraging collaborative critique and iteration.

  • Deliver a high-impact final presentation demonstrating your solution, process, and insights.

Curriculum

Proof of Concept:

  1. Frame to Spark

  2. Rapid Ideation

  3. Multi-track Concepts

  4. Get to Top Concept

  5. Prototype + Midway Presentations

  6. Iterate Prototype

  7. Final Presentation

Concept to Launch:

  1. Focus

  2. Problem and Audience Reframing

  3. Rapid Experimentation

  4. Experiment Planning

  5. Measuring and Synthesizing Experiment Results

  6. Experiment Execution

  7. Cross-functional Stakeholder Studio

  8. Learning-based Solution Iteration

  9. Vision Evolution

  10. Advocacy

  11. Narrative Refinement

  12. Final Presentation

AC4D students, alumni & faculty are Designing for Impact