Category: Design Thinking

  • Design thinking – Childs play provides competitive advantage

    What’s this all about? “You have got to be kidding me”, were my initial thoughts when I saw the boxes of Legos brought to the class room. It was 4th of September and the first contact lesson for the Design thinking course was about to begin. For someone with a background strictly from sales and…

  • Visualize this!

    “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” -Edward de Bono ———————————————————————————————————————- It was at a course of Design thinking at Laurea where I wrote down on my notebook and underlined this very inspirational thought: “We are not all designers, but we can all be design…

  • Design Thinking – a Blog Post

    My study journey in Laurea’s SID programme started with insecurity. After the introduction round I was sure someone had made a mistake by accepting me into this group. All my classmates seemed to be already professionals in service design, concept design, product design and every-possible-design. I was professional in totally different field that had a…

  • Importance of visualization in design thinking.

    Most of the books that discuss the design thinking process, among which Change by Design by Tim Brown, highlight the value brought by use of visual thinking. With some authors even calling visualization tools “the mother of all design tools”, because they are used in every stage of a DT process (Liedtka & Ogilvie, 2011: 49). On…

  • Ingredients of a Design Thinking

    Design Thinking- characteristics from a way of life we often have forgotten? How enlighting it was to discover that Design Thinking, a method and a mindset totally new to me, was in the end, at least to me, very similar process and way of thinking, as what it is to being just a human being at its…

  • First thoughts about the DT

    My thoughts before meeting the design thinking? Design thinking was an unknown concept for me before the Design Thinking course I took at Laurea. Developing processes is something that I had become familiar with before. It was still difficult to create specific expectations for the Design Thinking course because I did not have a clue…

  • Reborn Retail- Building capabilities within a company through Design Thinking

    “This is a new beginning. We are one. Fly and open your mind to new trends.” These were the thoughts that the recently incorporated Retail Director of JLL Spain wanted to transmit to his team.  He arrived to our small, but tiny Design Thinking room thirsty for innovation and he asked for our help to…

  • Playing with Legos®

    On a recent FaceTime session with my five-year-old niece I was proud to report that I played with Legos at school this week. Yeah, my school is pretty cool. Since then, I have been left wondering what it means that a five-year-old identifies with my day while I am still left struggling to convince some…

  • My Minds Boggling with Design Thinking!

    Last spring I received a letter from Laurea University of Applied Sciences, I was accepted to study Master degree of Hospitality Management, service design. I was thrilled! I have been looking for such an education where I can exploit my past as an Artist and professional of Horeca. First semester started with Design thinking, lead by…

  • A person who never made a mistake, never tried Design Thinking

    I came to study to Laurea, partly because I wanted to find new perspectives after working in the same field for many years. I come from customer service background and I’m new to the world of Design Thinking. After two days intro to Design Thinking with Katja Tschimmel and reading the book DesignThinking: Integrating innovation,…