Tag: design thinking

  • Empathy in focus: Design Thinking during disruption

    Today, the uncertainty around us is overwhelming. The world is saturated with Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA). However, we need to manage our daily lives, improve, create, and deliver. Design Thinking (DT) methods provide us with a chain of systematic approaches to tackle the novel beast head-on and conquer. The DT process takes us…

  • Design Thinking For Management Education

    “What’s in for me?”, the manager asks. “Anything”, we answered. “It depends on how we find it”. In terms of developing or dealing with the new in increasingly complex interdependencies and the capability to integrate various perspectives in the decision-making process, Design Thinking (DT) implies the potential to become a great asset for any organization.…

  • Purpose and unity as a corner stones of future work

    Antilooppi and Alma organized a seminar called work life 2022, where operators and influencers from different fields of business shared their vision of the future of work. The topic is interesting and If something, it’s definitely current. Before Covid19-pandemics flexible working was already every day living for some, but pandemics made it reality for all.…

  • Why do we need empathy in the design process and how to gain it?

    Introduction to empathy Most of us can probably recall products or services where it is clear that usability has been so far off from the priority list that the product/service is unreasonably difficult or even impossible to use. What is needed that these above-mentioned mishaps can be avoided and services and products designed are actually…

  • Diving Into the World of Design Thinking

    “Now I want you all to introduce yourselves, but this time you will do it differently.” – this is how our Design Thinking course started and little did we know what will follow afterwards. To present ourselves we were divided into groups, where each of us had to first, speak about her/himself, second, count one…

  • Self-organizing organizations and well-being

    Tampere University and The Finnish work environment fund has studied self-guiding organizations from occupational well-being point of view. The study drilled into topics like: On what level is employee’s well-being in organizations that have no management? What is the common stress factor in self organizing companies? Which ways of working would support employee’s well-being?  Study…

  • Once upon a time, there was a design thinker…

    Once upon a time, there was a design thinker…

    The first course in our exciting journey of Service Innovation and Design learning started with a deep dive into the world of Design Thinking. Our class has an interesting mix of different professional domains and backgrounds, which, as we learned from professor Katja Tschimmel, is a great foundation for a creative team.  …who believed in the power of collaboration The two…

  • A Design Thinking Crash Test

    Erika Bäck & Sabine Maselkowski Two days of Design Thinking ‘crash test’ (read: course) behind. All we think is we need to pass, like a car tested for the safety standards. Days went by at high-speed, challenging our ways of thinking and working, let’s start… Design? Design Thinking?  To get answers we looked both past…

  • Panel Discussion: Design Thinking – a tool to create and develop better services

    Panel Discussion: Design Thinking – a tool to create and develop better services

    Fraktio, a Finnish company crafting state of the art web applications, arranged an online panel discussion where five designers explained and analyzed Design Thinking principles.

  • Why every problem solver needs design thinking

    You might have heard of design thinking in business context and its possible perks. A design thinking approach is usually chosen when there’s a need for new inventions, growth or increasing satisfaction. Design thinking is the way designers think – putting human needs in the centre of development and creating engaging and inspiring solutions. Design…