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  • Why is Storytelling at the core of Design Thinking?

    My story with Design Thinking goes way back to 2017, when I started to take life coaching sessions. My coach was a Service Designer and a passionate Design Thinker. As in every coaching session, there is a part in which the coachee needs to offer at least 20 solutions or actions she/ he will be…

  • First steps in Design Thinking

    By Marja Hyypiä, first year SID student My journey as a future design thinker started on a Laurea UAS course on Design Thinking in September 6-7, 2019 where we had the pleasure to have Katja Tschimmel – Professor, Researcher, Trainer and Consultant in Creativity and Design Thinking (LinkedIn) – as our teacher. The two-day course…

  • From Chaos to Clarity: This is Design Thinking

    “Design thinking is a human centered, creative, iterative and practical approach for coming up with new ideas and solutions” (Brown, 2008). The approach can seem chaotic at first as the process doesn’t follow a linear path. The above picture by Tim Brennan of Apple’s Creative Services illustrates this well (Liedtka and Ogilvie, 2011). The Different…

  • Design Thinking – the bridge between the problem and solution

    I had a chance to attend a two-day intensive course called `Unlocking the Secrets of Service Design´ offered by CityDrivers. The trainers were Dr. Niels Billou and Adil Mansouri who are experts on Design Thinking and innovation. Both trainers created very energetic and enthusiastic environment that helped us, participants, to get excited about the two-day…

  • Holacracy – an innovative management practice for organizations

    During Gdynia Design Days and Design Talks Business Summit, I had a chance to participate in a workshop about Holacracy run by Ewa Bocian – a partner at Dwarfs and Giants, an innovation company which is organized in a holacratic way and its mission is to help shape the future of work. Source: Harvard Business…

  • The key take-aways from POLISHOPA Design Thinking 2019 conference

    The key take-aways from POLISHOPA Design Thinking 2019 conference

    POLISHOPA is the biggest Design Thinking conference in Poland, two days of interesting lectures and two days of workshops, 16 experts from different fields and 4 speakers from abroad. It was the sixth edition. You can find more details on this page: https://polishopa.pl/ I recommend signing up for the newsletter to get information about the…

  • Co-creating a City Family Centre

    Co-creating a City Family Centre

    Kallio Family Centre Workshop for Residents 28.1.2019 Caisa Cultural Center, Leipätalo, Helsinki For some time already, I have been interested in how the residents of Helsinki are engaged in developing the city and city services. I have participated e.g. in the Participatory Budgeting planning sessions targeted for the residents in November 2018. This time, I…

  • Designers share – part 3: Open sessions at Service Experience Camp 2018

    By Ninja Fedy After introducing the Service Experience Camp 2018 in a blog post earlier I am now sharing insights from a few open sessions I attended at the event. Session 1: Design Sprints  This session was meant for those who had already facilitated design sprints “the Google way” and was hosted by one of SXC…

  • From a maze into a daze

    Towards solutions via co-creation   On December 11th I attended an event called Redi*: Towards Solutions, in Redi*’s Vapaakaupungin Olohuone. Vapaakaupungin Olohuone is a open space for everyone who wants to hold an event, a workshop or just to be. It’s possible to organize events for free as long as they are free for everyone…

  • Can big organizations be agile?

    For big companies, change is hard and slow. No news here. However, corporations that are successful, keep up with the change. How is it done? A few quite interesting points were raised at an event on how to engage your customers in developing digital services organized by Helsinki Region Chamber of Commerce. The event was…