Tag: design process
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Panel Discussion: Design Thinking – a tool to create and develop better services
Fraktio, a Finnish company crafting state of the art web applications, arranged an online panel discussion where five designers explained and analyzed Design Thinking principles.
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10 Days to Make a Change — What I Learned from the Cross-European Virtual Hackathon
Using design and online collaboration to address challenges as a result of global COVID-19 outbreak As in spring 2020 we were experiencing nearly a global lockdown, I was searching for opportunities to collaborate with others virtually and contribute to the vast societal challenges that were taken place. After worrying news related to pandemic, I felt…
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Recipe for successful design process
Modern design thinking does not replace the traditional approach to design but rather adds a new layer. Today we think broader: anyone can learn to apply design thinking to any innovation challenge (Carlgren, Elmquist & Rauth 2014, p. 30). The imagination is the only limit since design thinking can be utilised to the traditional products…
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Is Design Thinking the right approach for every development project?
Heljä FranssilaFirst-year SID student and comms professional The first three-day study phase focusing on the basics of Design Thinking left me inspired, yet somewhat confused. When going back home after our last day together, I could not help wondering if design thinking really is a method we can use for every development project. Under the…
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Design Process Three Ways
By Salla Kuuluvainen I participated in Dash Design – an event that was preparation for Europe’s largest hackathon DASH. In Dash Design we heard from three companies and their take on design process: Smartly.io, Pentagon Design and Iittala. What became quite clear at the event was that the design process can look very different and…
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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.…
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Design when everybody designs
When, a couple of years ago, I announced I was going to quit my job to attend the HPI School of Design Thinking, most of my family and friends thought I was about to neglect the business path I had been following to find my true self in sketching trees on a notebook. (Which, by…
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I’m Developer, I’m not Creative?
I have always thought that since I’m ex-developer, I’m not creative. Developers only need to follow programming logic and mathematics rules to develop from business requirements. Then I found myself from Katja Tschimmel’s course on Design Thinking at Laurea and very quickly realized that I need to be very creative for next two days. We…
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Design Thinking –and quite a lot of doing
Throw-back Saturday. Sitting by my lap-top trying to find ways and words to describe my thoughts on last weekends’ Design Thinking -course. What are main learnings I took home from the weekend and what are the ideas I still carry with me after getting familiar with the recommended literature* on the topic? I grouped the…
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