Category: Students’ stories

  • Global Service Jam Helsinki 2016 – rookie´s point of view

    Global Service Jam Helsinki 2016 took place at Laurea Leppävaara campus on 26-28th February. There were about 50 Jammers at Leppävaara but we had other Jammers all around world; about 40 countries and 100 cities were Jamming together with us at the same time. The main idea of the Jam is to work in small…

  • On digital UX research

    While navigating through our increasingly digital world, we desire smooth journeys and perhaps a few moments of delight. Our digital UX experiences currently range from visiting websites, making online purchases, using all kinds of apps on our phones and wearables around our wrists, to smart televisions and inbuilt car navigation systems. Over the next few…

  • Service Jam newbie’s experiences in the Global Service Jam Helsinki 2016

    On Friday evening approximately 7 pm about 50 participants of the Global Service Jam Helsinki 2016 sitting in the auditorium in Laurea Leppävaara heard a sound of a water splashing. That was the secret theme of this year’s Jam. After hearing the secret theme the jammers had to think up a problem that needed to…

  • Teamwork rules – Barcelona Business Game Jam experience

    Hungry Cells goes Barcelona As the winners of Game Jam hosted by Laurea in last September our team Bonfire travelled 29Nov-02Dec to Barcelona Jam Today Fair to participate to Business Game Jam. Originally we were five members in our team but unfortunately two of us, Meiju Mäkinen and Aleksandr Fedorov, could not come along to…

  • Collectively ‘Thinking Design’

    ..my experience.. Starting studies after a decade…years of work life and now back again to a student life! Was not sure what to expect and get from the SID master’s program starting on the morning of 4th September 2015 with ‘Design Thinking’ A very exciting day to begin, students around full of inspiration, motivated, energized…

  • From Chaos into Creativity

    ”Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer´s toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success” – Tim Brown – We kicked-off our Service innovation and design 2015 program with an inspiring Design Thinking course taught by Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valença.…

  • Team building while Design Thinking

    Getting to know each other and learning about the concept of Design Thinking – this is what me and my fellow students at Laurea University of Applied Sciences spent two days doing in the beginning of September 2015. What happens when you form a group with four strangers and start innovating together as soon as…

  • Design Thinking – exclusively for everyone

    On September 4th school kicked off with the Design Thinking course and I recall thinking huh, this ought to be interesting! The classroom was packed with professionals from various backgrounds and industries as our lecturer Ms. Katja Tschimmel took us down the road of Design Thinking. We started the journey with a lecture about the background, basics,…

  • Design thinking – Childs play provides competitive advantage

    What’s this all about? “You have got to be kidding me”, were my initial thoughts when I saw the boxes of Legos brought to the class room. It was 4th of September and the first contact lesson for the Design thinking course was about to begin. For someone with a background strictly from sales and…

  • Visualize this!

    “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” -Edward de Bono ———————————————————————————————————————- It was at a course of Design thinking at Laurea where I wrote down on my notebook and underlined this very inspirational thought: “We are not all designers, but we can all be design…