Tag: Creative Confidence

  • Everyone is creative, even you!

    Everyone is creative, even you!

    Written by Tero Kauppinen and Edrish Md Abdul This SID article integrates insights from two workshop days focused on practical Design Thinking and creative thinking, along with the book ‘Creative Confidence’ by Tom & David Kelley (2013), and two articles ‘Design Thinking’ by Tim Brown (2008), and ‘Design Thinking Comes of Age’ by Jon Kolko…

  • Empowering everyone to be creative with Design Thinking

    Unlock creativity with Design Thinking. Join us to solve real-world challenges, reshape products, and make a positive impact. It’s not just for designers; it’s a tool for all. Explore the human-centred approach, empathise, and channel creativity to find solutions. Embrace Design Thinking as a lighthouse of hope in our ever-changing world.

  • Unleashing your creativity – find your inner child

    The myth about creativity The common misconception about creativity is that only some people are (or can be) creative. This is a myth and simply not true; everybody can be creative. Look at children! They have endless creativity and fun, why don’t we as adults? So, the question is, how do we get it back? As…

  • Design Thinking For Management Education

    “What’s in for me?”, the manager asks. “Anything”, we answered. “It depends on how we find it”. In terms of developing or dealing with the new in increasingly complex interdependencies and the capability to integrate various perspectives in the decision-making process, Design Thinking (DT) implies the potential to become a great asset for any organization.…

  • Unblock your creative potential with Design Thinking

    Unblock your creative potential with Design Thinking

    Do you remember yourself back in kindergarten? You played and experimented and tried out weird things without fear or shame. And then you grew up and started to see yourself as “not the creative type”, if you happen to be like us. What happened? In this blog post we’ll show how creativity isn’t a rare…

  • There’s a designer living within us all

    There’s a designer living within us all

    As an opening to our degree program in Service innovation and design we had Design thinking -course. The blast-like opening of the studies got me really happy, as we got to start doing design tasks from day one. I have been a bit concerned how much creativity it takes to tackle all the design challenges…

  • You just need to start!

    “You just need to start” (Kelley & Kelley 2014, 122). Seems easy, right? But in fact, I’ve found that the act of starting is actually one of the most difficult hurdles to get through when talking about how to practice creativity and design thinking. The challenge of taking that first step Ever since I was…

  • Bug list – design thinker’s first tool

    – Petti Jännäri, SID 2019 student I love lists. I have dozens on my phone: one for books I’ve red, the ones I’d like to read, places I’d like to visit, etc. And now I have a bug list, an idea that Ideo’s David and Tom Kelley presented in their book Creative Confidence (2013). It…

  • 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…

  • Can you learn to be creative?

    by Kati Kaarlehto This question was asked from our lecturer Katja Tschimmel at the very beginning of our contact days of the Design Thinking study module. This question in my mind I chose to read  Creative Confidence – Unleashing the Creative potential With Us All by David and Tom Kelley as my very first book…