Category: SID literature

  • Daily work hacks with Design Thinking

    Daily work hacks with Design Thinking

    Written by Linda Neiglick and Anamika Firoz You do not have to be a designer to strengthen innovation at your workplace.   In fact, some of the best ideas come from people who look at problems differently.   We gathered a few ideas and research-based methods that you can start using right away if you wish to…

  • Designing with Empathy: Turning Small Crises into Meaningful Solutions

    In our Design Thinking masterclass with Katja Tschimmel, we explored how empathy can transform crises, big or small, into into human-centred solutions.

  • All of us are smarter than any of us: The power of Design Thinking 

    by Mallika Kauppinen and Valeria Mäkinen  “All of us are smarter than any of us.” This simple phrase, often heard at IDEO, captures the heart of Design Thinking. Innovation today is not just a few “creative geniuses”. It is an effort of a multidisciplinary team coming together to solve complex problems by applying the three…

  • Get Your Hands Dirty in Innovation and Design

    Get Your Hands Dirty in Innovation and Design

    Reflections on the Design Thinking course by analyzing the contents of the articles and book, and picking the highlights for the review. This blog was written by Satu Wilson and Huong Thai.

  • Diving Into the World of Design Thinking

    “Now I want you all to introduce yourselves, but this time you will do it differently.” – this is how our Design Thinking course started and little did we know what will follow afterwards. To present ourselves we were divided into groups, where each of us had to first, speak about her/himself, second, count one…

  • Design Thinking at first touch

    DT is becoming extensively popular in modern era as more and more organizations are striving to provide compelling and innovative solutions to their customers. Design thinking helps to expand one’s creativity as well as enables one to utilize a broader range of tools and approaches for innovative solutions. What is it exactly? Design thinking has…

  • Designing your own way with design thinking

    Designing your own way with design thinking

    Making career choices when you’re 18 years old can be cumbersome. The childhood dream jobs, being a doctor or a policeman, probably have changed multiple times leaving you uncertain about what the future will look like. So, what does it take to find your dream job? As we started out journey in the SID program…

  • Unblock your creative potential with Design Thinking

    Unblock your creative potential with Design Thinking

    Do you remember yourself back in kindergarten? You played and experimented and tried out weird things without fear or shame. And then you grew up and started to see yourself as “not the creative type”, if you happen to be like us. What happened? In this blog post we’ll show how creativity isn’t a rare…

  • Becoming a Design Thinker and Doer

    Design Thinking in action Our journey to the realm of Design Thinking started in extraordinary conditions, because our lecturer Katja Tschimmel wasn’t able to attend the course physically – nor some of the students – because of COVID-19. In spite of this, we got an inspiring and participative start for our studies. The best thing…

  • Can we save the world by unblocking our creativity?

    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.