Resume. International School of Design (IDS) has been accepting students since 2013. The article discusses implementation of the so-called "design thinking" educational model in IDS. It was developed by Stanford University in the USA. It is desirable to adapt it to GTU, because design thinking is developed by instructing and performing collaborative work in groups of 2-4 people, whose communication and exchange of ideas is done through linguistic, graphic, gesture means and, as a result, brings optimal solutions to complex, dynamic and network problems. User-oriented (UX) experience is included in the educational program: human aspirations and desires are fully taken into account in it, the object is planned from the user's point of view, for which the design school uses the method of manual engineering processing on metal, wood, fabric or other materials, and to achieve practical results it applies the so-called "plan it yourself/build it yourself" method.