Category: SID methods

  • Embrace the mess!

    Design Thinking – the challenge in daring to embrace the mess of non linear thinking. I am quite new to the field of service design and the tools used in Design Thinking are not yet that familiar to me. Hence I didn’t really know what to expect from the first contact session at SID. I…

  • Unleash Your Inner Beast

    Be empathetic, gather courage and nurture creativity to make Breakthroughs. I would like to Thank our energetic lecturer Katja Tschimmel for sharing her knowledge and experiences on Design Thinking. Thank to Virpi Kaartti for providing great support during the Study and Thank to all my fellow students for such an amazing ongoing experience.  This blog is…

  • Educating the Design Thinkers of Tomorrow

    My Daughter My first-born started her school journey this autumn. It’s the same school that I attended 30 years ago, a respected and multicultural school, back then quite a traditional one – discipline based, classroom centric, the teacher standing in front of the class, the pupils listening. It still is a good school, but I…

  • Design Thinking – Innovation in progress

    What stayed with me for all these weeks, was the inspiring figure of Katja Tschimmel, explaining us how better results could be achieved, if Design Thinking was to be applied in more disciplines or professions. Passion is easily transmitted and while exploring the depths of the Evolution 62 model in action, it grew stronger. Here is…

  • Design Thinking = Thinking which leads to new realities and to innovation!

    Video about Design Thinking: In the core of Design Thinking is active observation, active listening and sharing.   Design Thinking is an effective toolkit for any innovation process, connecting the creative design approach to traditional business thinking, based on planning and rational problem solving. Abductive thinking method suggests that rationality and emotions & feelings are…

  • Like Alice in the Wonderland

    Who?  What? Why?   Who? I surely felt like Alice in her Wonderland at the intensive 3-day Design Thinking course. As I am working as a teacher right now being a student was different. After a while though I was back in the proper role and looking forward to the next coffee break. Personal innovation:…

  • Learn To Fly

    Learn To Fly

    I have a confession to make. I may have learned something! I´ll tell you more just keep on reading.. Chaos is a good word to describe my feelings on day one of the two contact sessions titled Design Thinking. Two foreign experts where invited to give the lectures. I must tell you I came totally…

  • All I Know Is I Know Nothing

    The Design Thinking method is gaining popularity among companies, entrepreneurs, managers, and universities as a leading way to find better solutions, discover new opportunities and produce the innovations required by the real world of today. During the two-days workshop led by Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valença at the Laurea University’s Service Innovation and Design course,…

  • Stages, more stages and the same stages all over again

    The Design Thinking course on September 2nd-3rd 2016 was very illuminating. Doing Design Thinking by following a specific model really shows how much work should be put in design work itself from exploring to implementing. Doing the same thing over and over again with different methods (moodboard, brainwriting etc.) truly opens up new ideas during the…

  • Learning Design thinking – did I do it right?

    That was my main concern during the Design Thinking course. Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valença familiarized us with practical Design Thinking. Katja gave us introduction to design thinking, its background, literature and visual models for design thinking process. We familiarized ourselves better with The Mindshake Design thinking model: Evolution 62. The two days of studying…