Tag: designer

  • Is Design Thinking a magical cure-all?

    Change as a Challenge The internet and with it the digitization and growing technological achievements are changing our world. Of course, change is nothing new; industries and companies have to face change every day through competition and innovation. Mootee describes, all companies must endure change to survive or grow (Mootee, 2013, p.124), but the change we’ve…

  • (Service) Designers, what for?

    by Kaisa Hölttä On the very first day of the Design Thinking course by Professor Katja Tschimmel, two existential questions rose in my mind: What is the role of a (service) designer in the innovation process? In the world where customers´role is more and more emphasizes, can customers even take a full responsibility of design…

  • Are you a Designer?

    How many of you consider yourself as a designer? This was one of the first questions we were asked in our service design workshop at Lahti University of Applied Sciences on October 9th 2012. Probably you can guess the answer, roughly half of the participants raised their hands. Then it was time to wake people a…