Category: SID methods
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The Problem Behind the Problem: From Classroom Experiments to Strategic Innovation
What if innovation begins not with finding a solution, but with asking the right question? Reflecting on our design thinking sessions, this blog explores how understanding people’s needs, challenging assumptions, and turning ideas into prototypes can lead to more meaningful and innovative solutions.
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Understanding Design Thinking as a Strategic Innovative Tools
By Sharmila Hamal and Archana Chudal We are very much excited about workshop of Design Thinking which was held on Oct 1st and 2nd .There is a truly great and important start up with Laurea SID, where we learn about actually how design thinking goes practically. Through out the whole sessions we learn to collaborate…
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Discovering Design Thinking: Creativity, Complexity and Innovation
By Abhishek Gupta and Phoolmaya Dimdung Tamang Laurea Experience The experience of our first couple of days at Laurea on 1st and 2nd Oct was very peculiar one as it was the first time for us to be at Laurea and we were starting our journey with SID masters. As international students, we got introduced…
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Extreme Group in Action: Transforming Student Challenges into Service Solutions
Written by: Sagar Shrestha and Rupa Kumari Thapa 1.Introduction The contact sessions held on 1–2 October 2026 provide an opportunity to explore how this approach can be applied in practice. Are you sure the “idea” currently in our mind is the best we can do? How will we implement those ideas to design a service…
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What If the Best Innovation Begins with a Question, Not an Answer?
When Finding the Right Answer Is Not Enough. We tend to approach problems with the expectation that there is a right answer. What happens when a problem has no single right answer at all? That was the central question of Katja Tschimmel’s Design Thinking masterclass. Rather than seeing innovation as a race to a solution,…
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Does AI Make Us More Creative or Just Faster?
Written by Iryna Ilyuchyk & Tanjid Hossain During our Design Thinking workshop, Katja Tschimmel introduced the idea of Design Thinking 4.0, where humans and AI work together in the creative process. We agreed not to use AI during ideation. We first explored the problem and generated ideas ourselves, while AI was allowed later, during prototyping.…
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How Might We Give a Busy Father His Week Back? Design Thinking Changed the Question.
By Asad Hussain and Anu Maharjan. We arrived at Katja Tschimmel’s two-day masterclass expecting a toolkit. We left with a reframed problem, a paper map covered in Lego, and a clearer answer to why design thinking can survive in organisations where other innovation methods quietly die.
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We Thought We Understood Design Thinking-Then Reality Hit
written by Ujeli Bhattarai & Bharat Gautam. We were wondering how well Design Thinking can be learned in a classroom. Can hands on practice really prepare us for using it in the world? This question was on our mind during our two day Design Thinking workshop on 9-10 March. We got an introduction to the…
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Beyond the Sticky Notes: What Design Thinking Actually Means Today
Written by Nirmal Shrestha & Kiran Timalsina Have you ever questioned why certain businesses are able to repeatedly develop goods that go off perfectly with consumers? This success often comes down to a well-known trendy phrase: Design Thinking. But what does this idea really mean? In order to figure out how this idea is both…
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The Courage to Share Rough Ideas: Why Prototyping Drives Innovation
Written by Marin Anita & Sarker Md Saddam Hossain In most workplaces, and even in everyday life, we are under pressure to deliver ready and polished solutions. However, Design Thinking shows us a counterintuitive paradox: incomplete prototypes, messy drawings, crude models, rapid mock-ups — this is where magic happens. Prototyping is not just a design…
