Tag: Futurice

  • The future belongs to those who prepare for it today – Malcolm X

    Wouldn’t it be great to know what the future holds for us? Particularly in the difficult times we are currently living, it’s easy to wish we’d know what the world looks like in six months or a year. This of course isn’t possible, but futures thinking provides a framework for us to foresee what possible…

  • #Snapshots and Service Design

    “I’m walking over a pile of 900 000 photos representing an amount of photos loaded daily to Flickr, image hosting website. It feels weird to step on photos, on someone’s face, on a cute baby, a guitar… I don’t think I have ever done this before, not in a photography exhibition at least”. That was…

  • OpenFin Challenge – How did we succeed within 22 hours?

    This is a descriptive story and self-reflective analysis of how four service design fellows & a tech consultant succeeded to come up with a strategic service ecosystem concept with viable business model just within 22 hours – and to convince a heterogeneous, multidimensional and highly professional jury. The challenge Open Innovation in Finance Business (OpenFin) is Aalto University…

  • Making mutual funds a mutual fun

    They say the best way to become a great service designer is to participate in as many service design contests and hands on happenings as possible. It was what I thought when Minna Myyryläinen, one of my SID Laurea fellow students, brought the idea to join the openfin Hack and Ideathon competition in Espoo. Finally…

  • Service Design Breakfast #4: Work begins after the lunch by Janne Toivola, Futurice

    In the 4th Service Design Breakfast talk on 31st of October, 2012 Janne Toivola from Futurice presented the concept of “Validated Design”. Janne is an experienced service designer and analyst having a focus on digital analysis and usability. Figure 1: Validated design, Futurice