Tag: design thinking tools
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Understanding Design Thinking as a Strategic Innovative Tools
By Sharmila Hamal and Archana Chudal We are very much excited about workshop of Design Thinking which was held on Oct 1st and 2nd .There is a truly great and important start up with Laurea SID, where we learn about actually how design thinking goes practically. Through out the whole sessions we learn to collaborate…
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Step In & Step Out – What We Learnt About Real Problems Using Design Thinking
By Deepesh Khadka, Uma Dhakal Gautam & Rajesh Kumar Shah | Design Thinking Masterclass – 1-2 October 2026 – Lecturer: Elif Öztekin, Laurea University of Applied Sciences. Have you ever had a perfect plan for your project, only for everything to change? Well we have! But after completing two days of Design Thinking at Laurea we…
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Discovering Design Thinking: Creativity, Complexity and Innovation
By Abhishek Gupta and Phoolmaya Dimdung Tamang Laurea Experience The experience of our first couple of days at Laurea on 1st and 2nd Oct was very peculiar one as it was the first time for us to be at Laurea and we were starting our journey with SID masters. As international students, we got introduced…
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Does AI Make Us More Creative or Just Faster?
Written by Iryna Ilyuchyk & Tanjid Hossain During our Design Thinking workshop, Katja Tschimmel introduced the idea of Design Thinking 4.0, where humans and AI work together in the creative process. We agreed not to use AI during ideation. We first explored the problem and generated ideas ourselves, while AI was allowed later, during prototyping.…
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Setting the stage for creative freedom
By Heidi Aho, Shahida Parvin, & Eduardo Solorzano Tejeda. Design Thinking (DT) and Innovation require a lot of creativity. Creativity is often described as a spark of inspiration, but it is far more complex and deeply human. It happens at the intersection of emotions, environments, and culture. To truly nurture creativity, we need to look…
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All of us are smarter than any of us: The power of Design Thinking
by Mallika Kauppinen and Valeria Mäkinen “All of us are smarter than any of us.” This simple phrase, often heard at IDEO, captures the heart of Design Thinking. Innovation today is not just a few “creative geniuses”. It is an effort of a multidisciplinary team coming together to solve complex problems by applying the three…
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Who can be a designer?
Reflections on empathy and inclusion in the design field By Rosa Yang and Stinne Vognæs Neither of us are designers, so what does it mean to do a part-time service design degree as an adult? Will we ever be able to claim the “title” or “identity” of a Designer? After our first two-day workshop on…
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“Train Your Empathy Muscle”: A Crucial Skill in Service Design
How often have you thought of empathy as a skill which can be trained? During the Design Thinking class, we found out that empathy is an important characteristic for a service designer to have, but it is also a quality and a tool which can be improved. Empathy is a prolific discussion point in Design…
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We all just love problems, don’t we?
Today we have all kinds of complex problems that need holistic solutions. Sometimes we do not even know what the problem is – so how can we ideate solutions then? A non-linear and iterative approach, Design Thinking, has offered a choice for solving complex problems – and impacted extensively the modern world’s innovations in business…
