Category: Students’ stories
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From Tools to Confidence – Learning Design Thinking by Doing It Together
We started the course with different ideas about Design Thinking and ended with a much broader understanding of it. Through hands-on exercises, teamwork and reflection, we learned how empathy, experimentation and collaboration can turn uncertainty into learning, ideas and new possibilities.
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Does AI Make Us More Creative or Just Faster?
Written by Iryna Ilyuchyk & Tanjid Hossain During our Design Thinking workshop, Katja Tschimmel introduced the idea of Design Thinking 4.0, where humans and AI work together in the creative process. We agreed not to use AI during ideation. We first explored the problem and generated ideas ourselves, while AI was allowed later, during prototyping.…
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How Might We Give a Busy Father His Week Back? Design Thinking Changed the Question.
By Asad Hussain and Anu Maharjan. We arrived at Katja Tschimmel’s two-day masterclass expecting a toolkit. We left with a reframed problem, a paper map covered in Lego, and a clearer answer to why design thinking can survive in organisations where other innovation methods quietly die.
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We Thought We Understood Design Thinking-Then Reality Hit
written by Ujeli Bhattarai & Bharat Gautam. We were wondering how well Design Thinking can be learned in a classroom. Can hands on practice really prepare us for using it in the world? This question was on our mind during our two day Design Thinking workshop on 9-10 March. We got an introduction to the…
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Once upon a time, there was a design thinker…
The first course in our exciting journey of Service Innovation and Design learning started with a deep dive into the world of Design Thinking. Our class has an interesting mix of different professional domains and backgrounds, which, as we learned from professor Katja Tschimmel, is a great foundation for a creative team. …who believed in the power of collaboration The two…
