Category: SID trends

  • Embracing change at the Service Design Global Conference 2020

    Embracing change at the Service Design Global Conference 2020

    The international community, Service Design Network (SDN), founded in 2004, arranged an online conference focusing on service design in October of 2020.

  • Panel Discussion: Design Thinking – a tool to create and develop better services

    Panel Discussion: Design Thinking – a tool to create and develop better services

    Fraktio, a Finnish company crafting state of the art web applications, arranged an online panel discussion where five designers explained and analyzed Design Thinking principles.

  • The Era of Disruption as an Innovation Enabler — How to Spot and Scan Trends to Kick-Start the Change?

    The Era of Disruption as an Innovation Enabler — How to Spot and Scan Trends to Kick-Start the Change?

    The future takes time to build, and each day is an opportunity to reflect on and plan for the next day From the Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation by Carleton et al. 2013 The global pandemic outbreak in spring 2020 is continuing to disrupt markets, organizations and even our behaviours. As changes, new needs,…

  • 10 Days to Make a Change — What I Learned from the Cross-European Virtual Hackathon

    10 Days to Make a Change — What I Learned from the Cross-European Virtual Hackathon

    Using design and online collaboration to address challenges as a result of global COVID-19 outbreak As in spring 2020 we were experiencing nearly a global lockdown, I was searching for opportunities to collaborate with others virtually and contribute to the vast societal challenges that were taken place. After worrying news related to pandemic, I felt…

  • Exploring emerging design for government

    Learning about an expansive field through running a meetup Gov Design Meetup London – February 2017 to now For the past several decades, the discipline of design has been mostly associated with the form-giving of commercial products. Only in the last ten years or so, the scope of design has expanded to strategic areas and…

  • Latest Trends of Destination Marketing

    Latest Trends of Destination Marketing

    Digital Tourism Think Tank – #DTTT2018 Helsinki, Bio Rex 29.-30.11.2018 I visited one of the most intriguing events in the traveling field the Digital Tourism Think Tank 2018 last November. Helsinki had the honor to host around 300 participants from all over the world in the event held in fabulous Bio Rex facilities.  #DTTT global is…

  • Can Design Solve Everything?

    Can Design Solve Everything?

    Design Forum Talks: Design, Value and Meaning Valkoinen Sali 28.11.2018 In late November 2018, I attended a seminar organized by Design Forum Finland, which, once again, discussed design and its overarching possibilities in solving complex problems in business, innovation and life in general. Many interesting keynotes were expected, such as Berlin-based phi360 consultant Arndt Pechstein’s “Hybrid…

  • Hackathons as Design Experiences

    Hackathons as Design Experiences

      I participated recently in two hackathons, Emotion Hack Day hosted by YLE and researcher Katri Saarikivi, and Climathon by Climate-KIC, hosted by Urban Academy. Hackathons are events that generate solutions to a challenge, and usually the solutions are technical in nature, like applications or programs. It seems though that the idea of hackathons has…

  • Future Service Design: Designing Solutions for Systemic Problems

    What kind of future is waiting for us service innovation and design students? How service design is transforming and what kind of skills are needed when working in the service design field in the future? These questions were discussed from several perspectives in the super interesting Palmu Society 10 + 10 event organized in Tennispalatsi.…

  • Utopia or Dystopia? How is the Future Looking like in Service Design?

    Utopia or Dystopia? How is the Future Looking like in Service Design?

    By Salla Kuuluvainen I recently attended two events which made me think about futures thinking and it’s relation to service design and innovation. Innovation, by definition, is an act that reaches towards the future, and and engages the innovator in creating a future that may be something they wish for.. or not. How can we…