If you’re responsible for designing solutions to complex problems, design thinking has a lot to offer, particularly if you manage a UX team. In this course—which is designed to meet the needs of both new and seasoned managers—instructor Nevien Magdy shows you how to enable your design teams and their stakeholders to more effectively leverage the insights of the design thinking model to promote innovation and product design.

Gather practical, easy-to-apply strategies to deploy design thinking dynamics, phases, and best practices with a distributed team. Nevien covers the importance of getting actionable feedback from your customers and managing stakeholder expectations more efficiently. Along the way, find out how to boost innovation—from concept ideation to prototyping, testing, and beyond.

In this course, Adobe evangelist Eric Matisoff delivers a detailed dive into more advanced skills in leveraging the Adobe Analytics platform. See how to best use key tools and features, including how to use Adobe’s Analysis Workspace for analysis and data visualization. Learn about the metrics that matter, how to find and apply dimensions, build segments, create complex calculated metrics, and improve your visualization skills. Join Eric to see how Adobe Analytics provides so much more value than just the basics, and grow your Adobe Analytics skills.

While Microsoft Excel can be a powerful tool for engineers, most engineers barely scratch the surface with its full functionality. In this course, designed for advanced Excel users, Microsoft MVP Jan Karel Pieterse gives you an overview of some of the most robust features in Excel that can help you complete many common tasks as a mechanical, chemical, or structural engineer. Get a primer on what tasks are best suited for Excel in relation to other functions and tools as well as the most useful functions for engineering projects, from ranges and lookups to strings, arrays, and more. Get ready to use Excel to solve complex problems, work with charts, and import and analyze data sets. By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to start leveraging workbooks, sheets, cells, arrays, conditions, loops, and events for VBA programming.

Microsoft Teams, the communication and teamwork hub of Microsoft 365, was designed to help coworkers meet, connect, and share their knowledge with others. In this course, instructor Nick Brazzi shares a series of concise tips that help Teams users sharpen their skills and leverage all that this communication tool has to offer. Each video is around one to two minutes in length, so you can pick up insights in your spare moments. Learn tricks for working with messages and teams, customizing the interface, setting up notifications, running meetings, sharing files, using the Do Not Disturb feature, and more.

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects people, infrastructures, and things to improve our lives and enhance production of goods and services. The rapid expansion of IoT technology brings with it an array of exciting and imaginative ways to make our products smarter and our lives easier. But the growth of this emerging technology also brings huge gaps in security. Along with limitless possibilities of the IoT in our business and personal lives, we also need to deal with the growing risks to our privacy.

In this course, IT security expert Lisa Bock starts by outlining how IoT devices generate immense amounts of data that can pose a risk to our privacy and security. She then explains existing standards and regulations, such as HIPAA and GDPR, that protect privacy and discusses the need to provide standards and legislation to ensure IoT data privacy. Finally, Lisa describes methods to select and secure devices to ensure privacy and security when using an IoT device.

Learn how to automate routine IT tasks and free up more time for complex troubleshooting and innovation. Join instructor Liam Cleary as he covers next-level scripting using prebuilt PowerShell modules, conditional logic, and loops.

Liam shows how to handle errors, enable delegated and remote administration, and run jobs in the background. Plus, learn how to schedule tasks and jobs so you don't have to sit around waiting for an activity to complete. Using these tips and best practices, you can administer an entire network of workstations and servers—without ever having to leave your office.