Tag: design thinking
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From Tools to Confidence – Learning Design Thinking by Doing It Together
We started the course with different ideas about Design Thinking and ended with a much broader understanding of it. Through hands-on exercises, teamwork and reflection, we learned how empathy, experimentation and collaboration can turn uncertainty into learning, ideas and new possibilities.
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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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How Might We Give a Busy Father His Week Back? Design Thinking Changed the Question.
By Asad Hussain and Anu Maharjan. We arrived at Katja Tschimmel’s two-day masterclass expecting a toolkit. We left with a reframed problem, a paper map covered in Lego, and a clearer answer to why design thinking can survive in organisations where other innovation methods quietly die.
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Shifting Together: How we learned to reframe problems in 2 days
by Andreia Pais da Cunha & Sayef Md Uddin We usually associate Design Thinking with sticky notes and frenetic brainstorming, but our two‑day course with Katja Tschimmel showed us it is a deliberate mindset. It helps us reframe situations, look at problems from different angles, and explore possibilities we don’t see at first or never,…
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What Do Groceries and Shoes Have to Do with Design Thinking?
Written by: Olukayode Adebiyi & Kirsti Earl Our design thinking journey began from different perspectives. During Laurea’s second-phase admission process, we took part in a group discussion about how artificial intelligence is shaping our world. Kirsti saw many possibilities in AI while also noting that how we use it matters. Olukayode was more cautious about…
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From Idea to Prototype: How AI Supported Innovation During a Hackathon
Introduction A hackathon is a time-bound, collaborative event where people gather to rapidly develop solutions to a defined problem (Briscoe & Mulligan, 2014). Originally a mostly tech-oriented format, hackathons have expanded beyond the technology sector and are now widely applied across many fields, including education, healthcare, and social innovation. What was once a space for…
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Innovating Learning with Design Thinking: Empathy to Prototype
– Sharada Bhandari & Amrit Dhakal Technology should not be conceptualized as the seed of innovation; it provides the suitable conditions that are most essential for innovative ideas to emerge and develop. Moreover, after understanding human frustration, we will be able to examine the existing technological aspects and identify how we can use the existing…
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From Problem to Possibilities-The Journey Of Design Thinking
Written By: Nishma Basnet & Sagar Bhandari “The approach, once used primarily in product design, is now infusing corporate culture” by Jon Kolko Design Thinking is a human-centered method that change the way of understanding and solving problems. This approach was discussed during the contact sessions on 9-10 March, where we carried out practical exercise…
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Thinking Like a Designer: What Design Thinking Taught Us
Written by Sundar Lamsal and Hemanta Lamsal Did you ever ask yourself how some ideas become solutions which really reach a point of contact? This is the point to which design thinking belongs. At the contact sessions, we did not only learn the theory but we went through the process. We started to grasp the…
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Beyond the Sticky Notes: What Design Thinking Actually Means Today
Written by Nirmal Shrestha & Kiran Timalsina Have you ever questioned why certain businesses are able to repeatedly develop goods that go off perfectly with consumers? This success often comes down to a well-known trendy phrase: Design Thinking. But what does this idea really mean? In order to figure out how this idea is both…
