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  • Turning Thoughts into IDEAS: Learning to innovate

    The learning journey started at Laurea with course facilitator and lecturer Katja Tschimmel by deep diving in to the course “Design thinking”. This course is one of the foundation stones for the Master Degree Program in Service Innovation and Design. This blog gives insights about the learning experience that encountered during this course and also…

  • Practical Design Thinking – Power of Fast Prototyping

    Practical Design Thinking – Power of Fast Prototyping

    The Course in Practical Design Thinking at Laurea was definitely a wow-moment. After two days of practicing design thinking we left inspired and empowered to take a new look of our life and work challenges. It f I would to choose the most powerful powerful tool I learned during this course it would be rapid prototyping. What Fast Prototyping…

  • Design Thinking – Be creative and fail fast

    “What if I´m not creative?” – Of course you are, we all are – otherwise we don´t survive in this world. Prof. Katja Tschimmel This is how our lecturer, Prof. Katja Tschimmel, answered the question when our two-day Design Thinking module started at Laurea. An interesting journey started for all the new Laurea MBA Service…

  • What makes design thinking so appealing?

    by Piia Hanhirova Inspiration, encouragement and empowerment. In my opinion, those are the most important values and aspects, which design thinking offers, and the reason why it appeals to so many people regardless the field they work in or are busy with. Design thinking underlines the deep understanding of people – their needs, wishes and…

  • AI is changing things – or is it?

    The Work up! event on AI was held during Helsinki design week at Bio Rex. The event had two main speakers and two panel discussions centered around their performances. I was excited to learn more on how AI is perceived by professionals and what the big questions surrounding it’s use are at the moment. AI…

  • DASH Boom Bang!

    DASH Boom Bang!

    “You gotta get stuff done.” – Jeremiah Tesolin, Iittala. Event: DASH – Design Process Time: 13.9.2018 17.00 – 19.00 Place: Clarion Hotel Helsinki (Tyynenmerenkatu 2, 00220 Helsinki)   ”Interested to discover new design processes and learn different approaches to design? DASH – Design Process gathers three companies from different fields to uncover their design process.…

  • Are you really data-driven?

    Data-driven design day 2018 was held as part of Helsinki Design Week this year. I first heard about it when I attended the DASH Design + AI event back in June. Lassi A. Liikkanen was there talking about how AI impacts interaction design and giving a short introduction to AI and ML. At the Data-Driven Design…

  • What is Customer Journey and why others besides sales and marketing people should be interested about it?

    What is Customer Journey and why others besides sales and marketing people should be interested about it?   Customer Persona Before starting to formulate customer journey, it is important to define customer personas, to whom these journeys will be created. A while ago, I wrote about what Customer Personas are and why those are useful.…

  • Agile piloting Jam in Open Living Lab days

      Smart Kalasatama: Agile piloting engages the urban community In 2013 the City of Helsinki decided to make Kalasatama as a model area of smart city development. Today Smart Kalasatama innovation platform run by Forum Virium Helsinki, has hit the headlines with engaging the urban community for the development of a smart district: it is…

  • Learnings from Facilitation-as-a-Service

    I had a possibility to facilitate three workshops for two different projects (2 ws + 1 ws) in this spring. The projects were related to improve empathy in health care, facing the patients and their relatives in new ways and find development ideas in the workspace. The participants of workshops were personnel and students of…