Tag: design thinking tools

  • Creative professionals can also be design thinkers

    I must confess that design thinking is a thing  I haven´t really thought about before I applied to Laurea University of Applied sciences to study the degree Master of Hospitality Management. One of the entrance examination tasks was a text about design thinking in hospitality  management. That was really the first time I read about…

  • Design Thinking – from brain errors to innovations

    Have you ever been in a situation when you know your business isn’t going as smoothly as it should? You know that something should be done but you don’t know where to start or can’t identify the business problems or the customers’ needs? How do you feel about failure as a part of innovating? Have…

  • Post-its vs. Design thinking

    Do the Post-its kill the good intensions of Design Thinking? When our pro Design Thinking (DT) teachers from Portugal start to show us the method – Evolution 6² – already in the second face I’m sitting with the Post-its in my hand. My brain stop working, no ideas are coming to my mind… Are all…

  • Playfull innovation

    Play has evolved as an advantageous and necessary aspect of behaviour. Why is it then that we so often leave it on other side of the office door? (Michlewski & Buchanan, 2016) The power of Design Thinking Design Thinking is as a creative way of thinking which leads to transformation and evolution of new forms…

  • Collectively ‘Thinking Design’

    ..my experience.. Starting studies after a decade…years of work life and now back again to a student life! Was not sure what to expect and get from the SID master’s program starting on the morning of 4th September 2015 with ‘Design Thinking’ A very exciting day to begin, students around full of inspiration, motivated, energized…

  • #Generate, #dream, #take risks, #inspire

    Design Thinking offers a variety of new ways to accelerate the creative process. During the first contact session at the SID program we were immersed in the world of Design Thinking with an intense two-day workshop held by guest lecturers Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valença. BRAINSTORMING is a widely spread idea generation tool that can…

  • Design Thinking, the secret of business innovation

    Remember that feeling of inadequacy in art class at school for ‘not being creative enough’? I do. To this day I’ve thought that I’m simply not cut out for being creative. And then, about a month ago while attending Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valenca’s course, I finally realised I too can be creative. That’s when…

  • 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…

  • 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…