Category: Design Thinking

  • Designers: Think BIG! … but also BEYOND and GLOCAL

    Designers: Think BIG! … but also BEYOND and GLOCAL

    Tim Brown, in his book Change by Design (100% recommended), urges a global change by what he calls Design Thinking. Tim proposes to the world a new way to face the upcoming challenges, the small but also the big ones. A new way of redesigning the world. He offers a tool usable for every person…

  • 3 lessons in innovation that changed my way of thinking

    Have you ever heard that you should learn one new thing a day? Well one September day I was lucky to learn three interesting new things that changed my way of thinking. I attended an intensive course held by Design Thinking gurus Gijs van Wulfen and Katja Tschimmel. Design Thinking offers a process to transform…

  • Design thinking – Snake oil of today?

    What is this mumbojambo? So, what is Design Thinking. To answer the question, let’s start with the facts. It’s: – a collaborative and participatory process – a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary process – a protocol for problem solving and discovering new opportunities – not a linear but an iterative process Is Design Thinking a new fab?…

  • I’m in Service Design Heaven!

    Yes, of course. This makes sense. I want to test this asap. SID program’s Design Thinking session in September 2014 by Katja Tschimmel and Gijs van Wulfen made me realize something I had unconsciously incubated – and to desire further information. Think if we could learn to love our challenges and transform them into innovation…

  • You cannot innovate alone!

    You’ve got a great idea, now what? How to get innovation off the ground in your company?   “You can invent alone, but you can’t innovated alone.” – Gijs van Wulfen   In the first course of our Service Innovation and Design studies we got to tackle the fascinating subject Design Thinking in an innovation…

  • Efficient Experiences

    With current trends for downsizing and automation, it is easy to see why customers would find services to be impersonal, maybe even unpleasant. Vantaa City Library decided to turn the trend to a different direction. By systematically using codesign, and by at the same time opening up its service processes, the library managed to significantly…

  • Me, Designer?

    Few weeks ago I was super excited to start my Service Innovation and Design studies. Our heterogeneous group seemed to be full of inspiration, motivation and richness from different backgrounds. During those very first days my thoughts started to wonder around and, to be honest, I felt a bit confused: How can I become a…

  • The 21st Century Customer

    E6/E4, FORTH, HCD, 3 Is, Hasso-Plattner, 4D/DoubleDiamond, SDT…these are all methods that have come up during the reading for this class and in class. Whatever the method, the point is to have a process that is collaborative (between team members but also between the team and the intended consumers and also the unintended consumers), with…

  • The power of design thinking

    We are honored to have contact lessons with Dr. Katja Tschimmel, Design Professor at ESAD Portugal, and Gijs van Wulfen, Innovation Consultant about design thinking. I work in a design organization surrounded by designers; I always wanted to know how design thinking can be used by anyone as a toolkit. This course gives me the…

  • Natural Born Designers

    The ability to design is undeniably an essential part of human intelligence. Everyone is a designer. Just like everyone is capable of creative thinking. We may not be equally talented at it but using Design Thinking tools can amplify our chances for success tremendously when working on tasks or problems at hand. Over the span…