Tag: inspiration
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Design Process Three Ways
By Salla Kuuluvainen I participated in Dash Design – an event that was preparation for Europe’s largest hackathon DASH. In Dash Design we heard from three companies and their take on design process: Smartly.io, Pentagon Design and Iittala. What became quite clear at the event was that the design process can look very different and…
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Practical Design Thinking – Power of Fast Prototyping
The Course in Practical Design Thinking at Laurea was definitely a wow-moment. After two days of practicing design thinking we left inspired and empowered to take a new look of our life and work challenges. It f I would to choose the most powerful powerful tool I learned during this course it would be rapid prototyping. What Fast Prototyping…
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“Memorable experiences, meaningful life”. But what is an experience, exactly?
“Aalto Experience platform fosters and promotes a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding and designing for experiences by combining scientific, artistic, business, and technological angles to human experiences.” 13th February marked the day of the Aalto Experience Platform Kick-off. With the mission of making Aalto University a world leader in multidisciplinary experience research, Experience Platform is an…
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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…
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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…
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Design Thinking –and quite a lot of doing
Throw-back Saturday. Sitting by my lap-top trying to find ways and words to describe my thoughts on last weekends’ Design Thinking -course. What are main learnings I took home from the weekend and what are the ideas I still carry with me after getting familiar with the recommended literature* on the topic? I grouped the…
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Future of Service Design – does it exist?
Ever thought about this? Is service design just one ism, which comes like a wave: First small, getting strong and then fading away. When reaching the end of its existing curve, the ism is so worn out that no-one even wants to hear the words “service design”. Aalto University Executive Education arranged on the 1st…
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Service design meets RAI –evaluation system
Be open-minded Yes, I have heard it, and I think I have even preached about it. Be open-minded. First and for most. That is how service designer should think, no doubt about it. Still, I have found myself being by and by too blindsighted. Last time this happened to me was few weeks ago. I…
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NBF16 – my takeaways
Last year I attended Nordic Business Forum 2015 thru the live stream and it was an amazing experience. I was so stoked that had to buy a NBF16 seminar pass right away – I wanted to experience it physically, to hear the keynote speakers live, meet people and be part of the buzz. Now, after digesting…
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