Tag: innovation
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Setting the stage for creative freedom
By Heidi Aho, Shahida Parvin, & Eduardo Solorzano Tejeda. Design Thinking (DT) and Innovation require a lot of creativity. Creativity is often described as a spark of inspiration, but it is far more complex and deeply human. It happens at the intersection of emotions, environments, and culture. To truly nurture creativity, we need to look…
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Daily work hacks with Design Thinking
Written by Linda Neiglick and Anamika Firoz You do not have to be a designer to strengthen innovation at your workplace. In fact, some of the best ideas come from people who look at problems differently. We gathered a few ideas and research-based methods that you can start using right away if you wish to…
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Designing with Empathy: Turning Small Crises into Meaningful Solutions
In our Design Thinking masterclass with Katja Tschimmel, we explored how empathy can transform crises, big or small, into into human-centred solutions.
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All of us are smarter than any of us: The power of Design Thinking
by Mallika Kauppinen and Valeria Mäkinen “All of us are smarter than any of us.” This simple phrase, often heard at IDEO, captures the heart of Design Thinking. Innovation today is not just a few “creative geniuses”. It is an effort of a multidisciplinary team coming together to solve complex problems by applying the three…
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Design Thinking – A Catalyst for Innovation
Gayatri Mishra and Laura-Augustina Avram These are some questions that were addressed at the workshop on Design Thinking (DT) held by Katja Tschimmel. The class was introduced to design, DT and creativity to help build a design centric mindset. Then we learned how to apply this knowledge and transform insights and ideas into actionable statements…
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Get Your Hands Dirty in Innovation and Design
Reflections on the Design Thinking course by analyzing the contents of the articles and book, and picking the highlights for the review. This blog was written by Satu Wilson and Huong Thai.
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Why, why, why Design Thinking?
“It’s not ‘us versus them’ or even ‘us on behalf of them.’ For a design thinker it has to be ‘us with them’”. –Tim Brown Reflections by Marita Ruotsalainen and Katja Räisänen The workshop days of Design Thinking with engaging pracademic Daniela Marzavan felt like looking at something familiar through a pair of new glasses…
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Everyone is creative, even you!
Written by Tero Kauppinen and Edrish Md Abdul This SID article integrates insights from two workshop days focused on practical Design Thinking and creative thinking, along with the book ‘Creative Confidence’ by Tom & David Kelley (2013), and two articles ‘Design Thinking’ by Tim Brown (2008), and ‘Design Thinking Comes of Age’ by Jon Kolko…
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Let us unlock new tools with Design Thinking
Reflections by Tuukka Savinainen & Showmen Rudra The themes of the days became noticeably clear during the teaching, and the understanding of why something grew during the teaching also increased. We went through the entire design thinking process in service design and experienced the power of activating thinking through various exercises. Design Thinking is a…
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Design Thinking: from discomfort and failure to intriguingness and success
We think that we had inspiring and pragmatic teaching on design thinking during the contact days in Leppävaara campus. As we heard from Marzavan (2024) design thinking is slowly starting to be integrated in major corporations, institutions, organizations and even some governments such as the German government has at least one person with design thinking background…
