Category: Design Thinking

  • Thinking like a Designer

    In September 2013 started my SID journey at Laurea Leppävaara unit with Design thinking –course and I must say – what a start for our Master program!  Laurea had invited Design professor and entrepreneur Katja Tschimmel and Founder and author of FORTH Innovation method Gijs van Wulfen to teach us what Design thinking is. During…

  • Innovating mind should be like a parachute

    New innovations are launched by companies worldwide almost daily. I have been wondering how many new innovations in design has for e.g. toothbrush evolved. What customers need is what customers get. However you can’t just ask them for what kind of toothbrush they would like to have, because they don’t know. Of course companies need…

  • Energized by Design Thinking

    Evening after the final contact session of Design Thinking course ended at Laurea, we made a family visit to our friends. Right from the door, they asked about my studies and that pretty much set the course of the evening. Eager to share the experience, I started telling about Laurea environment and learning principles, new…

  • Service Innovation and Design: A Giant Leap

    13th September 2013, my first master class on “Design Thinking and Innovation” at Laurea University and I must say What A START!!! It was a very exciting day meeting all new people and introducing each other in all different ways. For example by creating persona, empathy maps and bingo game, this made it easier for…

  • Innovation in perspective

    In our first contact session with Gijs van Wulfen and Katja Tschimmel, we experienced a lightning version of an innovation process with Design Thinking: 2 days, not even 14 hours of work. And I’ve been wondering… What about real-life innovation? Can you expect to find a great brand new solution in just a couple of…

  • Don’t think innovation, think usefulness

    “We need you to design a gadget for blind people. The gadget will be attachable on the side of a cup, and when the poured liquid starts to overflow from the cup it would beep and alert the user. It’ll be battery powered and should cost less than 10 Dollars.” This, more or less, was…

  • How to be a good designer

    You need to have the right mindset Nigel Cross, Emeritus Professor of Design Studies in the UK describes in his book Design Thinking (2011) successful designers as optimists and opportunists, who are exploring uncertainty hopefully and dedicated to the tasks in hand. Unlike engineers who want to test, measure and prove something, designers cope with…

  • Design thinking – A way to connect the dots

    It was 8:30 a.m on a cold autumn morning, the first day of an exciting journey into service design that was to start at Laurea. After navigating the ridiculously long coffee queue, it was already time for the course to commence. We all got to know each other and the course got underway.  We were…

  • New School Techniques and the Innovation Magic Box

    Day One in School The roll call begins Itziar, Predrag, Cagri, Mervi, Haana, Ida and of course my name Titikshya a tongue twister in the list  … The day starts with so many new names, felt like it would take ages to remember all faces and names … but know what our Design thinking lecturers had in their Magic Box new methods and techniques in introducing each…

  • Creating solutions with Design Thinking

    Today customers are expecting solutions from businesses and we have to be able to provide those to them, not just by guessing and assuming what they would like to have but to creating those with them. With our visitor lecturers, founder of FORTH innovation method Gijs van Wulfen and Design Professor and Entrepreneur in Creative…