Tag: design thinking

  • Think Aloud – Design Think

    Designing a new service concept is a team effort. There are several well known Design Thinking methods that guide through the design process leading to innovation – for example IDEO’s 3I model (2008) and British Design Council’s Double Diamond (2005) to mention two. But how can we make sure everyone’s ideas are being heard during…

  • From Chaos into Creativity

    ”Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer´s toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success” – Tim Brown – We kicked-off our Service innovation and design 2015 program with an inspiring Design Thinking course taught by Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valença.…

  • Revisiting Design Thinking

    Revisiting Design Thinking

    In autumn 2009 Tim Brown published his influential book ‘Change by Design’, an introduction to Design Thinking for business leaders. Shortly thereafter, in early 2010, I read it for the first time while studying in a post-graduate course at the HPI School of Design Thinking. Now, five years later, I am studying Design Thinking again…

  • #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…

  • Team building while Design Thinking

    Getting to know each other and learning about the concept of Design Thinking – this is what me and my fellow students at Laurea University of Applied Sciences spent two days doing in the beginning of September 2015. What happens when you form a group with four strangers and start innovating together as soon as…

  • To think or Design Think?

    I left home that morning with a strange feeling of uncertainty. I was heading to the Design Thinking mastercourse given by Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valenca. No, it was not Thinking I felt uncomfortable with. It was Design. What design today means to me are mostly UML charts and lines of software code. Oh dear,…

  • 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 – what´s that got to do with me?

    Starting out I was not really sure what this is all about, I mean, I signed up to study service development and first thing off when the semester starts they put me in a class about design. Design, not my line of activity (or so I thought). Of course I soon noticed the idea behind…