Category: Students’ stories

  • Well-being services at Summerschool

    Well-being services at Summerschool

    I spent two inspiring weeks in Professional Summerschool. I can only adore the prework of the organizers – there were so many interesting truelife projects available for students to design and innovate. And – as we saw in the pitching session of the last day – all the groups had created great service concepts just…

  • Two weeks at professional summer school

    Elisa project about MyData We all are from different Universities of Applied Sciences: Laurea, Metropolia and Haaga-Helia. There are four nationalities represented in our global team of five people. This is a good basis for diversity. Two of us are doing master´s studies and the rest are doing BBA`s. We are IT, Media Engineering and…

  • How to make drinking water cool

    I’ve always liked challenges and when I learnt that Laurea Leppävaara will be hosting the Global Service Jam in February 2016 I decided to take part. So far, I’ve been pretty much a novice in service design, but I like the idea of “learning by doing”, which is a key element of service design and…

  • Rapid video prototyping

    Prototypes are essential for many design processes. There are prototypes, and experience prototypes. While a prototype aims at building the thing right, an experience prototype aims at building the right thing. From product design point of view, experience prototypes can be created as rapidly as within hours, whereas prototypes usually require weeks to be completed.…

  • 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.…