Tag: design

  • Going Holistic

    Digitalist Design Forum 2017 Tennispalatsi, Helsinki 16.11.2017 An event for designers, producers and buyers to increase insights of design thinking and brand experiences I attended the event with high hopes to get insights of design and holistic customer experiences. I have to admit I was a little bit disappointed when most of the talks focused…

  • Are we in the beginning of a bubble? – Digitalist Design Forum brought out the hype

    The hype was there. Mr Digitalist himself, Ville Tolvanen, said in the beginning of Digitalist Design Forum that he had waited for the event for three years. But did the event deliver? Not so much. In my opinion design was not really in the forefront of the forum as there were plenty of presentations about…

  • Licence to Fail

    Design now – a day of discussion on the future of design Harald Herlin learning centre, Otaniemi, Espoo 2.11.2017 The day packed with talks and discussions was all about defining what design is going to be in the future. We heard an inspirational speech from Anna Valtonen (Vice President for Art and Creative Practices, Aalto…

  • Ritual Design – A New Perspective or Sacrilege?

    “We needed a fresh approach, all our clients already know service design and how to use the tools”, starts anthropologist and service designer Veera Suomalainen her talk at October’s IxDA Helsinki meetup. My first thought was what?! Every time I tell people that I study service design, I have to explain them what it means.…

  • How to think like designers do?

    Empathy, experimentalism, optimism, collaboration. These are the characteristics designers have – just to name a few. During the introduction lesson lectured by Katja Tschimmel on 8 – 9 September we took an intensive dip into the world of Design thinking. And instead of just listening and learning we also got our hands on to the desing…

  • Unleash the potential of your business using Design Thinking

    Summary: Using a co-creative process, Design Thinking helps organisations to build on unmet user needs and create value from user insights. Before I started my Service Innovation and Design (SID) studies and went through the Design Thinking masterclass hosted by Professor Katja Tschimmel, I never realised how much published content such as books, reports and…

  • Swimming in a Sea of Possibilities – Design Thinking and the Beauty of Teamwork

    A two-day course in design thinking taught me that a team is more than a group of people and that in our aim to reach our goals, failure can be a positive thing.

  • Nudging: The Story of How Men Stopped Peeing on Themselves

    Did you know that a person’s satisfaction can be observed from the way they are standing? Behavioural scientist Pelle Guldborg Hansen tells us that you can. If a person is standing on their dominant foot and resting the other one, they are happy. If they are annoyed they tend to sway. Hansen’s research helps companies…

  • Finding my inner designer

    I started my studies in Service Design this autumn 2017 and Design Thinking was the very first course I took part in. As there was the word “design” in the course title I was a bit worried about my capabilities to succeed in this. These worries became a reality soon as the course started and…

  • From a need to a service – design thinking methods at work

    As the very first course at Laurea, Katja Tschimmel and Sanna Marttila introduced both the Finnish Service Design and English Service Innovation and Design groups into the secrets of design thinking. My expectation for the course was nothing less than to be able to switch myself into some sort of design thinking mode. That turned out…