Service Innovation & Design

  • 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…

  • Game Jam Experience

    When I saw the invitation to join the Laurea GameJam on 25-27SEP2015 I was immediately interested. Why would I join the GameJam? I play games quite randomly. My programming skills are minor. Not to mention any special artistic skills… I had my personal motives and learning purposes. My opinion is that we people need to…

  • To think or Design Think?

    I left home that morning with a strange feeling of uncertainty. I was heading to the Design Thinking mastercourse given by Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valenca. No, it was not Thinking I felt uncomfortable with. It was Design. What design today means to me are mostly UML charts and lines of software code. Oh dear,…

  • Invention Cycle – How to bring your ideas to life

    In the very first day of SID program, I spent evening after the course getting inspired by Tina Seelig, a Stanford University Professor and co-director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. The forum was Aalto Design Factory’s series of Thought Leaders’ Talks. Tina has been recognized as a national leader in engineering education and she…

  • 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 helps you to move better when creating something new

    We had two great mind shaking days on September when Katja Tschimmel introduced us to Design Thinking (DT), the concept and toolkit for creative processes. You can call DT also a mindset: “the way of thinking and doing”. It is meant also for organisations and businesses outside design field. We had a concrete case and went through DT process…

  • How might we design for change?

    “Reading aloud is an important tool to plant the love of reading in children”, said Rana Dajani explainng her idea of We Love Reading in the innovation platform: Open IDEO. We Love Reading is an initiative to hold read-aloud sessions in refugee camps that encourages women, men and youth to be leaders in their communities…

  • Design Thinking – what´s that got to do with me?

    Starting out I was not really sure what this is all about, I mean, I signed up to study service development and first thing off when the semester starts they put me in a class about design. Design, not my line of activity (or so I thought). Of course I soon noticed the idea behind…

  • 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…