Category: SID events

  • Palmu Society: 10+10 – The Future of Service Design

    Event: Palmu Society: 10+10 Time: 20.9.2018 klo 8.30-13 Place: Tennispalatsi, Helsinki The service design agency Palmu, now part of Solita, celebrated their 10th anniversary with an inspiring event that brought Palmu’s talented professionals on stage to discuss the next 10 years of service design and related topics from various angles. Designing things is natural for…

  • 7 Things to Consider When Designing for Trust in AI and Robotics

    7 Things to Consider When Designing for Trust in AI and Robotics

    by Miikka Paakkinen This post belongs to a two-part blog series on design topics related to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. You can read part two on ethics by clicking here. Note: I will not go deeper in to explaining the concepts of AI and robotics in this post. For a summary on the technologies…

  • DASH Boom Bang!

    DASH Boom Bang!

    “You gotta get stuff done.” – Jeremiah Tesolin, Iittala. Event: DASH – Design Process Time: 13.9.2018 17.00 – 19.00 Place: Clarion Hotel Helsinki (Tyynenmerenkatu 2, 00220 Helsinki)   ”Interested to discover new design processes and learn different approaches to design? DASH – Design Process gathers three companies from different fields to uncover their design process.…

  • ”You can’t do everything on your own.”

    ”You can’t do everything on your own.”

    Event: Open up, become inspired and innovate! Global perspectives at Innovation Breakfast Time: 5.9.2018 klo 8:00-10:30 Place: Hard Rock Cafe (Aleksanterinkatu 21, 00100 Helsinki) ”The focus of the USCO-project is to develop Finnish organisations capabilities to utilise digitalisation. The project explores digital business development on an organizational level, and in implementing open service innovation. USCO-project relies on…

  • UX and Service design excursion at Eficode

    This week I was again lucky to be able to get a seat to an interesting excursion hosted by Eficode. The topic of the excursion was User Experience and developing digital services and it was held together with VIMAPA and KäY (Frieds of the User), a cross-disciplinary community of students interested in usability, user experience,…

  • Testing out the co-creation game ATLAS

      On 4th April a group of service designers and service design enthusiasts met up after work to play the service co-creation game ATLAS. The game was made as part of the research project ATLAS, a project executed in 2012-2014 by Aalto University and funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation Tekes. The goal…

  • Were we at our happiest 15 million years ago, and what’s happened to the lingo of design?

    On the morning of 20 March, Reaktor Design Breakfast event took place in Helsinki. Evolved from a small, mostly local and IT focused company to an international one of strategy, design and engineering, Reaktor is perhaps one of the hottest companies in Finland. Known for its flat hierarchy and multiple prizes won for best place to work,…

  • Hacking in the future

    I participated for four nights to Digia’s API Hackatemia, the acronym API referring to Application Programming Interface i.e. how you can access either data or system of a company or system. The Hackatemia was a four-day event for technical and business development experts joining forces to learn about APIOps® Cycles, an open source method developed…

  • Motive based profiling in Service Design by Kuudes

    Juha-Pekka Ahvenainen, Markus Alavaikko We participated design breakfast arranged by Kuudes. According to their web pages Kuudes is Nordic insight, strategy and design agency. They have been doing motive based profiling of the customers for over ten years and they have published their latest studies last year. Kuudes has found eight different Finnish customer profiles…

  • Designing Business at OP – thoughts from an excursion visit

    I got the chance to participate in a company excursion visit to OP Financial Group organised by Ompeluseuran Palvelumuotoilijat. Ulla Jones, Design Culture Lead at OP was to give a presentation on and around the topic Business Design. What it is and how it was applied at OP. I was really looking forward to this…