Category: Service Design events

  • Game Jam Experience

    When I saw the invitation to join the Laurea GameJam on 25-27SEP2015 I was immediately interested. Why would I join the GameJam? I play games quite randomly. My programming skills are minor. Not to mention any special artistic skills… I had my personal motives and learning purposes. My opinion is that we people need to…

  • Invention Cycle – How to bring your ideas to life

    In the very first day of SID program, I spent evening after the course getting inspired by Tina Seelig, a Stanford University Professor and co-director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. The forum was Aalto Design Factory’s series of Thought Leaders’ Talks. Tina has been recognized as a national leader in engineering education and she…

  • Design Weekend

    This month Futurice Tampere hosted a Design Weekend together with Tampere University of Technology Unit of Human-Centered Technology and Ubinet doctoral network. During the weekend I had the chance to learn from and work with UX design students. What is UX? Nothing is more telling than a real-life UX example, such as this excerpt of…

  • Service Design Network Conference at Helsinki

    On 3th of September a seminar organized by SDN Helsinki took place at Maxine restaurant. I had a pleasure to be part of the organizing team. The seminar was sold out so we were very pleased. The day started with interesting topics and keynote speakers. Mikko-Pekka Hanski, co-founder at Idean, pointed out how companies are…

  • TOMORROW is being made today

    Tomorrow conference was held at Helsinki music centre on 10th of June 2015. I as a student had the privilege to attend to this thought-provoking and networking event with world-class speakers from diverse fields. Thanks to Lauri Ahonen, the event organizer and the front seat guests that made the participation for students possible. For those of…

  • Industrial Transformation

    I attended on the 2nd of June 2015 to a Fimecc Future Industrial Services (FutIS) WP2 Final Seminar hosted by Program Manager Mr. Pekka Helle. This seminar had both researchers presenting results as well as the industrial and garco sector presenting their cases. FutIS is organized by the Finnish Metals and Engineering Competence Cluster (Fimecc) and aims to ease the industry’s…

  • An exceptional pharmacy

    2nd of June Service Design Network Drinks was organized by Diagonal and a pharmacy Ympyrätalon apteekki. Do you use pharmacy services only when you are sick or have a hangover? Traditionally pharmacy has been seen as a place taking care of sick people. Now the focus is turning also towards healthy people who want to…

  • Intuition

    This spring I attended the Futures thinking and foresight methodologies course where Samu Mielonen was a guest lecturer. He is strongly enthusiastic about intuition and intuitive intelligence. His presentation was very exiting and I felt that I want to hear more. This is why I attended an evening event of Futures Specialist on the 26th of May where…

  • The Pharmacy for People

    Some people are just excellent in developing new ideas and turning them into succesful concepts. A pharmacy in Helsinki, Ympyrätalon apteekki, started its services with a totally new concept: The Pharmacy for People. A Finnish service design company, Diagonal, created this concept together with a pharmacy chain of 120 private pharmacies, Yhteistyöapteekit (YTA), and especially with the pharmacy Ympyrätalon apteekki.…

  • Solita’s service design with love

    In stead of talking about added value, should we talk about loved value? How to define, how specific services bring us such a happiness and a good feeling, that we want to use it again? Is it intuition that service designers should trust more? Solita, a Finnish digital business consulting and services company, opened up their service design ideas…