learn how to design for people, with people

Kickstart and reboot your career with the Human Centered Design bootcamp

Creative Explorations organises premium, immersive, two day Human Centered Design trainings for groups from 16 to 25 people. Our premium programme also provides space to explore creative alternatives.

The training is a hands on way to get familiair with Human Centerend Design: a proven mindset, proces and practice to solve any problem, transform understanding and promote change. The 21st century skills and hard skills you’ll practice are a great foundation for transformational roles. This training is suited for anyone in business, technology, design, marketing, maker and any other discipline within your organisation.

Top hard skills:

  • Research
  • Marketing
  • Visual storytelling
  • Experience Design
  • Product/ service design
  • Challenge analysis

21st century skills:

  • Creativity
  • Collaborating
  • Adaptability
  • Decision Making
  • Problem Solving
  • Communication

Our training stands out from others because we train hands on with real world cases, in real world environments. Combined with our unique immersive formula we have an above average success ratio.

Our bootcamp also a great start of your young professionals’ onboarding, teambuilding and provide them with a grounding experience for leadership through a full immersive training in real world situations. It’s the experience that defines the (re)start of a career, bonds teams with reality and will give insights, confidence and design power that will stick.


We are Daniëlle ten Hagen and Peet Sneekes and we designed the next level, immersive training for among others young professionals in Human Centered Design. We’re doing away with simulations, and dull hour long powerpoint sessions and have applied the principles of Human Centered Design to our training.


Our training is a two day empathic, fun, energetic and visual way of working where tangibility, interaction and optimism is key. Check out who we are and our filosophy on teaching Human Centered Design.

Photo: Niklas Zeller, Amsterdam, 2019

Innovate, design and research where people are

So, what’s the best place to design, make and ask question? Right, where people are! So we set up camp where ever we decide the challenge space is.

Learning how to design people in a shopping area? We setup a popup store! Want to challenge cows to share more of their data to their owners? Boom, we’re starting at the farm and ending in the field!

To us this approach on design and learning is self evident and for you it’s guaranteed an eye opener, no matter what you want to learn or discover. Get ready to see, hear and smell things you haven’t seen in your worksheets.

The Human Centered Design Bootcamp

Throughout the two day bootcamp we embed the players in a real world challenge with actual experts and players in the challenge space.

By applying principles and tools like empathy, prototyping, optimism and visual thinking the players learn how to engage with people in the challenge space, think different, reframe questions and create concepts that will be tested right away.

The bootcamp is a two consecutive day training where we appeal to the players resourcefulness, being a teamplayer and working in unexpected scenarios. The bootcamp is based in the real world where digital tools will take the backseat. It doesn’t require any special skills or abilities.

The bootcamp is aimed for professionals with roots in business, science, applied science, design, it, human sciences and marketing. We applaud teams with various backgrounds, so they will naturally augment each other.

Creative Explorations Playbook

Coming soon: plot your own journey with our Creative Explorations Playbook™®©. It’s a complete-ish write up on how to hone the craft of listening with your hands and researching by making together.

We believe the things we do are unique in the way we do it and the knowledge is based on what we learned, read and people we worked with. To ensure the propagation of the energie, we open source our curation of tools, mindsets and methods and trust that you will come to us for the flavour, depth and the secrets we kept for ourselves.