Human-Centered Design Practitioner

Become a front-line innovator who uses design thinking in your daily work to tackle problems and design powerful solutions.

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Build skills to solve problems creatively and collaboratively

Our Practitioner Certification Program teaches you design thinking skills and equips you to tackle the challenges you face in your daily work creatively, collaboratively and with confidence in a different way of working.

You’ll learn the LUMA System as a human-centered toolset to help your team identify the right problems to solve and design solutions that people want and need.

Who the program is for: 

    •  Individuals and small teams through open enrollment sections.
    •  Large organizations through private programs. Learn more about flexible options for private programs.

Available formats: Fully online

Structure: Four live learning sessions followed by three live coaching sessions

Duration: Three months

LUMA Workplace® access: One-year subscription to LUMA Workplace, our digital platform for design thinking

Mural access: Free, one-year subscription to the Mural visual collaboration platform (public programs only)

What you earn: Certification as a Practitioner of Human-Centered Design

What you'll learn

As a LUMA certified practitioner, you’ll be able to: 

  • Use human-centered design methods, activities and techniques in your work on a daily basis, whatever your job is.
  • Begin to speak a common language for creative problem-solving that leads to faster, better collaboration that gets results.
  • Know how and when to apply combinations of human-centered design methods to common challenges, such as aligning a team or coming up with better ideas.
  • Build your own agendas for work sessions that use combinations of LUMA methods to address specific business challenges.
  • Collaborate effectively with others — whether that’s colleagues, customers or partners — both in-person and remotely, across locations and time zones.
Photo Illustration of the LUMA Institute Practitioner certification badge
Illustration of the LUMA Institute Practitioner certification badge
Costs

Public programs

  • Standard rate: $2,250 USD per person
  • Group rate: $1,950 USD per person for 3+ members from the same organization
  • Discount pricing for nonprofit, education, and government sectors: $1,950 USD. If applicable, use the appropriate discount code at checkout: NONPROFIT; EDU; GOVRATE

Private programs

2026 Public Program Schedule
Learning sessionsCoaching sessionsStatus
26, 27, 28, 29 Jan

9:00 - 14:00 CET		25 Feb
25 March
22 April

9:00 - 11:00 CET		7 seats leftRegister
Jan 26, 27, 28, 29

9 a.m. - 2 p.m. ET		Feb 27
March 27
April 24

9 a.m. - 11 a.m. ET		11 seats leftRegister
Feb 9, 10, 11, 12

11 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET		March 6
April 10
May 8

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. ET		15 seats leftRegister
Feb 17, 18, 19, 20

12 p.m. - 5 p.m. ET		March 18
April 15
May 13

3 p.m. - 5 p.m. ET		17 seats leftRegister
March 9, 10, 11, 12

9 a.m. - 2 p.m. ET		April 10
May 8
June 5

9 a.m. - 11 a.m. ET		13 seats leftRegister
March 16, 17, 18, 19

12 p.m. - 5 p.m. ET		April 17
May 15
June 12

1 p.m. - 3 p.m. ET		20 seats leftRegister
March 23, 24, 25, 26

9 a.m. - 2 p.m. ET		April 24
May 22
June 26

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. ET		20 seats leftRegister
April 13, 14, 15, 16

9 a.m. - 2 p.m. ET		May 13
June 10
July 15

9 a.m. - 11 a.m. ET		20 seats leftRegister
April 14, 15, 16, 17

9 a.m. - 2 p.m. SGT/12 p.m. - 5 p.m. AET		May 13
June 10
July 15

9 a.m. - 11 a.m. SGT**		17 seats leftRegister
April 20, 21, 22, 23

11 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET		May 20
June 17
July 15

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. ET		18 seats leftRegister
April 27, 28, 29, 30

7:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET		May 29
June 26
July 24

9 a.m. - 11 a.m. ET		19 seats leftRegister