Category: Design Thinking

  • Hand me the Legos – I’m in!

    Starting new studies after years of steady working life can without doubt force you out of your comfort zone as it is. Enter the first course on a subject not familiar to the student at all – and see if you end up with innovative ideas and new motivation, or despair and feelings of incompetence.…

  • OH, THE EXCITEMENT! – The Design Thinking Crash Course

    I was very excited about starting my studies in SID Laurea yet many thoughts of anticipation haunted my mind. What would my study buddies be like? What kind of avalanche of knowledge will we encounter? How will I ever find the time to combine my work and studies – with the rest of my life?…

  • Design Thinking, the secret of business innovation

    Remember that feeling of inadequacy in art class at school for ‘not being creative enough’? I do. To this day I’ve thought that I’m simply not cut out for being creative. And then, about a month ago while attending Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valenca’s course, I finally realised I too can be creative. That’s when…

  • “Design Thinking –Innovation as a way of life”

    We kicked-off the SID program on 4.9.2015 with a course called Design Thinking, run by 2 wonderful personalities: Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valença. The day started with a mind-shake warm-up, to shake up one’s attitude rather than neurons! The 2-day course (I ended up wishing it was longer) started with an introduction to the evolution…

  • Team building while Design Thinking

    Getting to know each other and learning about the concept of Design Thinking – this is what me and my fellow students at Laurea University of Applied Sciences spent two days doing in the beginning of September 2015. What happens when you form a group with four strangers and start innovating together as soon as…

  • To think or Design Think?

    I left home that morning with a strange feeling of uncertainty. I was heading to the Design Thinking mastercourse given by Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valenca. No, it was not Thinking I felt uncomfortable with. It was Design. What design today means to me are mostly UML charts and lines of software code. Oh dear,…

  • Design Thinking – exclusively for everyone

    On September 4th school kicked off with the Design Thinking course and I recall thinking huh, this ought to be interesting! The classroom was packed with professionals from various backgrounds and industries as our lecturer Ms. Katja Tschimmel took us down the road of Design Thinking. We started the journey with a lecture about the background, basics,…

  • Design Thinking helps you to move better when creating something new

    We had two great mind shaking days on September when Katja Tschimmel introduced us to Design Thinking (DT), the concept and toolkit for creative processes. You can call DT also a mindset: “the way of thinking and doing”. It is meant also for organisations and businesses outside design field. We had a concrete case and went through DT process…

  • How might we design for change?

    “Reading aloud is an important tool to plant the love of reading in children”, said Rana Dajani explainng her idea of We Love Reading in the innovation platform: Open IDEO. We Love Reading is an initiative to hold read-aloud sessions in refugee camps that encourages women, men and youth to be leaders in their communities…

  • Design Thinking – what´s that got to do with me?

    Starting out I was not really sure what this is all about, I mean, I signed up to study service development and first thing off when the semester starts they put me in a class about design. Design, not my line of activity (or so I thought). Of course I soon noticed the idea behind…