Category: SID methods

  • Design thinking: Innovation with creativity and confidence

    Getting back to studies after a decade was like, having butterfly effect and feeling equally anxious and excited! Moving ahead with hopes and believes, that this course in Service Design and Innovation will be a serious learning curve for current and future growth in my career path. We jumped into the course of Design Thinking…

  • What on Earth is Design Thinking???

    Although I had previously read a few books on Design Thinking as well as participated in a Service Design course organized by Aalto PRO, I still learned so many new, exciting things at Katja Tschimmel’s course on Design Thinking at Laurea. And that learning of new aspects to Design Thinking is also what inspired the…

  • STARTING A DEEPER DIVE WITH DESIGN THINKING

    Climate change, globalization, aging and digitalization are huge factors which, among others, are forcing us to think and act differently. In order to be resource efficient and competitive, to take care of older generations, and take the advantage of possibilities of digitalization, we need new sustainable innovations here in Finland. I believe that Design Thinking…

  • Think like designer: Trust others and step out of your biases

    In design thinking human is always in the center. Having that in the focus of your goals you have a good start as a design thinker. The service innovations meet the needs of people as the result of a cross-discipline approach by co-creating minds. Technology and other resources are enablers to increase people living good…

  • Crash course to design thinking

    Think holistically and against stereotypes. Aim for achieving empathy, try, prototype, iterate. Approach everything you do with a positive and playful attitude, with high tolerance for mistakes. These were some of the core qualities of design thinking, presented by Katja Tschimmel during a two-day course on design thinking at Laurea university on 8-9 September. A…

  • Modern Practical tools of Design Thinking

    Last weekend I have participated in Design thinking course which motivates me to share my thoughts about my learning in this course and related material. Design acts as the facilitator for innovation processes but during last decade design thinking(DT) gains great appreciation from research communities but also from all organizational sectors of the world. Many…

  • Design Thinking has made me realise there is definitely a conspiracy going on

    I went in to learn about Design Thinking… but left having realised I was involved in a massive social experiment! It all started innocently enough. It was a rainy autumn day, in southern Finland. We were told this would be a design thinking workshop. That’s right, Design Thinking. Nothing more, nothing less. But what happened on those…

  • MyData 2017 – Health Profile Hackathon

    MyData 2017 – Health Profile Hackathon

    Juha-Pekka Ahvenainen, Markus Alavaikko, Markus Torkkeli The National Institute of Health and Welfare (THL) is a state agency that promotes the wellbeing and health of the population, prevents diseases and social problems, and develops social and health services. It also is the statutory statistical authority in health and welfare in Finland maintaining a knowledge base…

  • Try an idea, rather than debate it!

    One week ago it was “Back to School” season also for me. It had been almost 10 years since I graduated from a business school  – I didn’t know what to expect at Laurea but I was feeling really exited!  Services marketing has always inspired me and I believe that the services design studies will…

  •   A story about Swiss Mountains, Children and the Need for Design Thinking in Education I would like to tell you a story about my younger son. He just turned five years old a week ago and has an older broder who will turn seven at the end of this month. From time to time…