Ready to boost your innovation skills and master impactful design-research techniques? Join Innovated by Design—a dynamic community of innovators dedicated to business model innovation and meaningful outcomes. Connect, learn, and elevate your practice with experts who share your passion for making a difference.
DOWNLOAD PROGRAMDuration: 6 Days
Starts: October 10, 2025
Location: Wintercircus Ghent
Fee: € 4250
Language: Dutch
This program is designed for you when you are:
- Product manager
- Product designer
- Designer, and you are engaged in prototyping and testing new developments.
You want to get an overview of the fast evolving landscape of no-code and vibe coding tolls and share experiences with peer designers, product owners and developers.
In a small group of product professionals, you will learn the latest and best practices of vibe coding and build your own product. You go home wit a working MVP.
DAY 1 | 10|10|25
DESIGN THINKING AS
A MEANS TO INNOVATE
Design thinking and design research can help us understand the needs and context of beneficiaries. Design thinking also helps ideating new ways to fulfil these needs.
DAY 2 | 05|12|25
STAGING INNOVATION
AS WE SEE IT
Innovation is a catalyst for transformation. Drawing inspiration from groundbreaking concepts in the literature, we will look at innovation as a lever for creating value.
DAY 3 | 30|01|26
BUSINESS MODEL
INNOVATION
The core of innovation is creating value and impact. Technology can be a means, but most important is how we bring value and create impact. Business model innovation is key.
DAY 4 | 20|03|26
PROTOTYPING AS MEANS TO RESEARCH AND TEST
Prototyping serves as a means to test at every stage of our innovation trajectory. Whether that is to test a first idea with rough prototyping or our final test before launch.
DAY 5 | 08|05|26
INNOVATE WITH THE DESIRED IMPACT IN MIND
Innovation is about creating value and making impact. In this session we learn how to measure the impact we have in mind, and to incorporate the impact in our innovation.
DAY 3 | 26|06|26
CREATING SUPPORT AND PITCHING INNOVATIONS
This day is designed to fortify your ability to cultivate a receptive environment, ensuring alignment with the governance structures that guide innovation within your organization.
Design is all about research. Your first steps as an EPIC Designer are guided by Jan Van Caneghem
We explore what innovation entails with Sarah Boone, professor Innovation at UGent
Business Model Innovation on the stairway to greatness, we do with Rudy Moenaert
We learn from all about Craig Soenen, prototyping and testing our ideas any step of the process
Starting with the end in mind we begin doing in the impact evaluation session with Eva Wuyts
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