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SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards · RQF Level 3

SFEDI Awards Level 3 Certificate in Implementing a Design Thinking Business Challenge

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 3
  • Total credits15
  • Guided learning90 hours
  • Units in this qualification2

Awarded by SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Regulator OfQual Qualification Framework RQF Qualification Reference Number 603/6699/0 Qualification Level 3 Credit Value 15 credits Guided Learning (Hours) 90 hours Total Qualification Time (Hours) 150 hours Duration Completion within 2 years Structure Two mandatory units Age Groups 16-18, 19+ Entry Requirements There are no formal entry requirements for these qualifications. However, in order to benefit from undertaking them, learners should possess communication skills sufficient to allow them to address the assessment requirements of the qualification. First Date for Registrations December 1, 2020 Last Date for Starts November 1, 2025 Delivery Staff Requirements There is no requirement for Delivery/Assessment or Internal Quality Assurance staff to hold the Assessment or Internal Quality Assurance qualification. It is recommended that, as best practice, staff should be working towards these or already achieved the appropriate qualification. If the centre decides to use none qualified tutors/trainers/line managers for the delivery or quality assurance of a qualification, staff members must demonstrate their knowledge and understanding and skills within the delivery, assessment and quality assurance of programmes of learning. This can be done through the completion of one the following documents dependent on the role the individual will be undertaking: Assessor Competency Statement Quality Assurer Competency Statement If you wish to access public funding for the delivery of qualifications, please refer to your funding agency for delivery staff qualification requirements. IOEE Studying Membership Eligible Yes SFEDI Directory Eligible No Registration Fee Download Fees and Prices List

These are the units SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Developing, Understanding and Implementing Prototyping Techniques for Design ThinkingReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
It teaches you to understand and apply low fidelity prototyping, storyboarding, and visual thinking techniques within design thinking. You'll learn to prove concepts and create prototypes that address business needs.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to use low fidelity prototyping to prove a concept
  • Utilise a story board technique to prove Design thinking process
  • Develop a Visual Thinking solution to prototype a solution
Implementing and Evaluating a Design Thinking ChallengeReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll learn to identify business problems, collabourate on idea development, and create prototypes within a design thinking challenge. The unit emphasises evaluating solutions considering market conditions, external influences, costs, and timescales.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand a problem to overcome
  • Develop an idea and work with a team
  • Develop a prototype

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

Your passport

Every credit is a stamp you keep

Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.

Developing, Understanding and Implementing Prototyping Techniques for Design ThinkingImplementing and Evaluating a Design Thinking Challenge

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

The Evidence Evaluator

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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.

Where this can lead

Associate Innovation Facilitator

Your journey starts here. We're looking for someone who's ready to roll up their sleeves, learn a ton, and help us build the future. If you're excited by the prospect of turning ideas into impact, we'd love to chat.

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Opens the roleAssociate Innovation FacilitatorOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 1 near-identical record folded inSee the role →Opens the roleInnovation CatalystOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleInnovation Catalyst (Design Thinking)One of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Future FluencyAll ten future skillsSee how every unit is contextualised by the tenExplore →

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How you’ll actually learn this

One-to-one, on your own real work

A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Developing, Understanding and Implementing Prototyping Techniques for Design ThinkingLevel 3

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Associate Innovation FacilitatorInnovation CatalystInnovation Catalyst (Design Thinking)

This unit enables learners to understand and apply low fidelity prototyping, storyboarding, and visual thinking techniques within design thinking. Learners will develop skills to prove concepts and create prototypes that address business needs.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for SFEDI Awards Level 3 Certificate in Implementing a Design Thinking Business Challenge

2 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards.

  1. Developing, Understanding and Implementing Prototyping Techniques for Design Thinking
  2. Implementing and Evaluating a Design Thinking Challenge
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

Why it sticks

Most courses stop at remembering

There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

The value

Why the companion is worth £70 a month

You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.

That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.

Earned on your own work, taught to the top.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.

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