Category: Design Thinking
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Empowering everyone to be creative with Design Thinking
Unlock creativity with Design Thinking. Join us to solve real-world challenges, reshape products, and make a positive impact. It’s not just for designers; it’s a tool for all. Explore the human-centred approach, empathise, and channel creativity to find solutions. Embrace Design Thinking as a lighthouse of hope in our ever-changing world.
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Designing thinking and change in practice
by Carolina Faria & Irina Tikanvaara The teaching sessions with Daniela Marzavan, where we had two thought-provoking days and a hands-on workshop, provided a widening experience of the practical use of design thinking to solve a given task. The goal was to find the solutions for practical cases using design thinking, its methods and tools…
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How Interdisciplinary teams are the catalyst to innovations
Imagine this: a group of experts in one specific field are working together on an incredibly challenging problem. They are intelligent, proficient, and polite. They ask reasonable questions, answer them and everyone agrees with each other. Perfect picture, isn’t it? Or not? Picture: AI generated image that represents the homogeneous team. According to Linda A.Hill…
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”It might be a gamechanger to step in the shoes of your customer.”
The quote in the title was spoken out by our lecturer, Daniela Marzavan, on our first day of the Design Thinking-course (DT) in Laurea. Here, we learned how one could adopt the mind of a 5 year-old by asking numerous Why`s and deciding that a tape roll can be an airplane if it’s said to…
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We all just love problems, don’t we?
Today we have all kinds of complex problems that need holistic solutions. Sometimes we do not even know what the problem is – so how can we ideate solutions then? A non-linear and iterative approach, Design Thinking, has offered a choice for solving complex problems – and impacted extensively the modern world’s innovations in business…
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Design Thinking: Streamlining Creativity
A reflection by Alvaro Valls Boix and Erson Halili – Students at Service Innovation and Design MBA @Laurea UAS Defining Creativity is a complex task, since the term is interpreted differently in different cultures and contexts. However, from a cognitive and mental activity perspective, Creativity is defined as the cognitive capacity to develop something new…
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Empathy – a Core Competence for Design Thinkers
The modern business world is fast-paced and highly competitive. Companies must stay innovative to answer the complex demands of the ever-changing market and business needs. Design thinking has found its’ way to larger organizations as an answer to simplifying the challenges of both modern business and technology. (Kolko 2015.) For business success, an empathic approach of design…
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One Thousand Experiments Club
Mind shaking Our Design Thinking (DT) journey started with two days of mind-shaking by Katja Schimmel (Katja). Learning by doing was absolutely engaging. We warmed up with creative thinking skills exercises. While perceptive thinking felt like a hard nut, associative thinking felt familiar and easy to master. In a playful spirit, we got to explore…
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Empathy is the superpower you need to design truly innovative services
In today’s world of complex systems and processes, people seek simplicity and real value. At the same time, companies’ competition for people’s attention is fiercer than ever. They face the challenge to differentiate themselves from competitors to gain the loyalty of their customers. Design Thinking might be the way we can add real and lasting…
