Category: SID degree programme
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Letting go of your prejudices (while staying inside that thinking box)
by Miia Lemola & Ekaterina Nikitina Design Thinking workshop and concomitant readings have given us a lot of inspiration. However, it has also activated inner critics in us. We would like to share our thoughts about prejudices and limitations in creative thinking. Creativity – a gift or a skill? In the workshop, we were thrown…
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My first touch with design thinking and why it was so difficult to write about it
The journey of writing this blog post I have written this blog post so many times and felt so insecure and confused what to write about. The assignment for the Design Thinking course was to read couple of articles and books and reflect on your own learnings. Over and over again, I have read my…
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Can we save the world by unblocking our creativity?
As the problems we are facing as humankind are getting more all-encompassing and complex, the need for human superpowers like empathy and creativity is ever increasing.
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Sustainable future is based on design thinking
I experienced a small revolution in my mind when I participated the Design Thinking course held by Katja Tschimmel in Laurea 2019. It grew even bigger after reading the book Creative Confidence by Tom and David Kelley and the Design Thinking article by Tim Brown. In the end, I realized that attempts to make this…
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Is Design Thinking the right approach for every development project?
Heljä FranssilaFirst-year SID student and comms professional The first three-day study phase focusing on the basics of Design Thinking left me inspired, yet somewhat confused. When going back home after our last day together, I could not help wondering if design thinking really is a method we can use for every development project. Under the…
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Customer experience success with design thinking
In our Laurea master study of Design thinking led by Professor Katja Tschimmel, we “Learnt by doing” basic principles of design thinking concept and used Mindshake Innovation Design Thinking Model called Evolution 6. Study of Design thinking model helped me to understand the importance of concepts like fluidity in idea generation and idea hitlist, prototyping…
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First steps in Design Thinking
By Marja Hyypiä, first year SID student My journey as a future design thinker started on a Laurea UAS course on Design Thinking in September 6-7, 2019 where we had the pleasure to have Katja Tschimmel – Professor, Researcher, Trainer and Consultant in Creativity and Design Thinking (LinkedIn) – as our teacher. The two-day course…
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Design Process Three Ways
By Salla Kuuluvainen I participated in Dash Design – an event that was preparation for Europe’s largest hackathon DASH. In Dash Design we heard from three companies and their take on design process: Smartly.io, Pentagon Design and Iittala. What became quite clear at the event was that the design process can look very different and…
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Turning Thoughts into IDEAS: Learning to innovate
The learning journey started at Laurea with course facilitator and lecturer Katja Tschimmel by deep diving in to the course “Design thinking”. This course is one of the foundation stones for the Master Degree Program in Service Innovation and Design. This blog gives insights about the learning experience that encountered during this course and also…
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Where is the Groan Zone in Design Thinking?
By Salla Kuuluvainen Abductive thinking is a skill crucial for Design thinkers. It refers to being able to stay analytical and emphatic, rational and emotional, methodical and intuitive, oriented by plans and constraints, but spontaneous at the same time (Tschimmel 2012,3). We practiced our best capability in abductive thinking in a two-day workshop with Katja…
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