Tag: design thinking

  • To me sound of SID is like a sound of music

    To me sound of SID is like a sound of music

    How I found my inner spark of Services Innovation and Design Thinking? I was one of the lucky ones who got in to Services Innovation and Design (SID) Programme at Laurea University of Applied Sciences. We newcomers met for the first time during our 3-day kick-off session in September 2014. I had high expectations for the class but I also kept…

  • Four tips to prevent innovator’s block

    How to get the ideas flow? What if the others think our idea is lame? What if we fail? These are some of the reasons why people struggle with innovation and I have also find myself pondering these same questions. “Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.” -Marty Rubin I…

  • Designing is about doing, not talking!

    “Design is all about action, and business too often gets stuck at the talking stage. Uncertainty comes with the territory when business objective is growth. But that doesn’t mean that you are powerless to do anything about it. You can’t make it go away, but you can manage it rather than allow it to manage…

  • Designers: Think BIG! … but also BEYOND and GLOCAL

    Designers: Think BIG! … but also BEYOND and GLOCAL

    Tim Brown, in his book Change by Design (100% recommended), urges a global change by what he calls Design Thinking. Tim proposes to the world a new way to face the upcoming challenges, the small but also the big ones. A new way of redesigning the world. He offers a tool usable for every person…

  • 3 lessons in innovation that changed my way of thinking

    Have you ever heard that you should learn one new thing a day? Well one September day I was lucky to learn three interesting new things that changed my way of thinking. I attended an intensive course held by Design Thinking gurus Gijs van Wulfen and Katja Tschimmel. Design Thinking offers a process to transform…

  • I’m in Service Design Heaven!

    Yes, of course. This makes sense. I want to test this asap. SID program’s Design Thinking session in September 2014 by Katja Tschimmel and Gijs van Wulfen made me realize something I had unconsciously incubated – and to desire further information. Think if we could learn to love our challenges and transform them into innovation…

  • You cannot innovate alone!

    You’ve got a great idea, now what? How to get innovation off the ground in your company?   “You can invent alone, but you can’t innovated alone.” – Gijs van Wulfen   In the first course of our Service Innovation and Design studies we got to tackle the fascinating subject Design Thinking in an innovation…

  • Me, Designer?

    Few weeks ago I was super excited to start my Service Innovation and Design studies. Our heterogeneous group seemed to be full of inspiration, motivation and richness from different backgrounds. During those very first days my thoughts started to wonder around and, to be honest, I felt a bit confused: How can I become a…

  • The 21st Century Customer

    E6/E4, FORTH, HCD, 3 Is, Hasso-Plattner, 4D/DoubleDiamond, SDT…these are all methods that have come up during the reading for this class and in class. Whatever the method, the point is to have a process that is collaborative (between team members but also between the team and the intended consumers and also the unintended consumers), with…

  • Natural Born Designers

    The ability to design is undeniably an essential part of human intelligence. Everyone is a designer. Just like everyone is capable of creative thinking. We may not be equally talented at it but using Design Thinking tools can amplify our chances for success tremendously when working on tasks or problems at hand. Over the span…