Human-Centered Product Management teaches students to run the full arc from human insight to a defensible product decision. Most HCD courses end at a validated prototype; most product management instruction starts from a roadmap that already exists. This course closes that gap: students use the human-centered design process — empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test — to generate insight, then apply core product management practice — opportunity sizing, prioritization frameworks, PRDs, go-to-market planning, and metrics — to turn that insight into a decision they can defend to a real stakeholder. Working in teams against a live partner project, students leave with a full-cycle artifact: research synthesis, a prioritized roadmap, a tested prototype, and a launch and measurement plan, plus practice presenting that reasoning to a non-classroom audience. DTX 251 (Introduction to Design Thinking) or equivalent HCD experience, recommended but not required.

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Designing with Data is a foundational course aimed at providing students with the quantitative reasoning skills essential to understanding and improving human-centered systems, from healthcare to transportation to technology platforms. The curriculum delves into key concepts of quantitative reasoning, encompassing descriptive statistics, probability, correlation versus causation, and simple system modeling.

Moreover, the course offers hands-on sessions using real datasets from hospitals, transit agencies, schools, and technology platforms, with a focus on interpreting data, building spreadsheet-based models, and evaluating tradeoffs. Through a blend of lectures, discussions, and applied labs, students will develop the ability to define what should be measured, reason carefully about uncertainty, and communicate quantitative findings clearly. Upon completion, students will have acquired the skills necessary to analyze real-world data and make an evidence-based case for design solutions.

Students from all academic backgrounds are encouraged to enroll in this hands-on course, as no programming or statistics background is required.

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Most of us have used AI to answer a question or draft something quickly. Fewer of us have used it to run an entire process from beginning to end, the kind of work that normally takes a team: researching a market and turning it into a report, producing a weekly publication, or taking an app from an idea to the App Store.

This 8-week, project-based course brings those two ideas together. Using Human-Centered Design (HCD), you will learn to understand a problem through the people who live with it, then use systems thinking to see the structure producing it, including the parts that are not obvious at first look. From there, you will design a workflow for the outcome you want and use agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode to build a set of AI agents that produces it. You will run your system against real work, notice where it falls short, and improve the design rather than the individual result.

The course moves through the HCD phases you would recognize from any design thinking course. What changes is where you land. Instead of ending at a prototype of a product, you end at a working system that produces an outcome, and you are the person who designed it. Each student proposes their own project, so the work stays tied to something you find genuinely interesting. You will work individually on your project and sit in a standing critique group that follows your work through the whole course.

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