Tag: prototyping

  • Get Your Hands Dirty in Innovation and Design

    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.

  • Design Thinking Journey: From Head to Heart to Hand with a Skill Bag

    Reflections by Judyta Kontoniemi and Namrata Sethi Design Thinking. Sounds simple, right? Just follow the classic 6-stage Design Thinking process, reserve a couple of hours, get a room with a whiteboard and brainstorm a solution. Without involving real end users. There is much more to it. Let’s find out what Design Thinking is really about.…

  • Design thinking tools to make meaning from the mess

    Design thinking tools to make meaning from the mess

    More and more non-designers know at least some design thinking tools when different organizations commonly use them. Design thinking helps make sense of complex problems, and what is most important, it helps people create new ideas that fit better consumer needs and desires. (Kolko, 2015) Design thinking is not an exceptional talent or a skill…

  • Panel Discussion: Design Thinking – a tool to create and develop better services

    Panel Discussion: Design Thinking – a tool to create and develop better services

    Fraktio, a Finnish company crafting state of the art web applications, arranged an online panel discussion where five designers explained and analyzed Design Thinking principles.

  • Failing fast can get your idea to fly

    Swimming noodles, bubble wrap, hula hoops, playmobil toys and lego blocks – yes, this definitely is the Design Thinking master class of the Service Innovation and Design Master Degree Programme. During the two-day workshops we ran through Mindshake’s model Evolution 6², guided by professor Katja Tschimmel from Mindshake. The model has six phases: emergence, empathy,…

  • 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…

  • Design Thinking – the bridge between the problem and solution

    I had a chance to attend a two-day intensive course called `Unlocking the Secrets of Service Design´ offered by CityDrivers. The trainers were Dr. Niels Billou and Adil Mansouri who are experts on Design Thinking and innovation. Both trainers created very energetic and enthusiastic environment that helped us, participants, to get excited about the two-day…

  • Bench of Awkward Conversations – Global Service Jam 2018

    9th to 11th March 2018 teams around the world were jamming it up on six continents on the Global Service Jam. In Helsinki, around 30 participants and a mentor/organiser team met up on Friday 9th after a hard week’s work to immerse in a weekend of ideating, prototyping, and having fun. With some intros to the ways of…

  • The Course for Human-Centered Design: How Might We Enable More Young People to Become Social Entrepreneurs?

    The Course for Human-Centered Design (provided by Ideo.org and +Acumen) is a seven-week curriculum, which introduces the concepts of human-centered design and how this approach can be used to create innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions for social change.  This course has been developed to educate those, who are brand new to human-centered design. No prior…

  • Fastest Prototypers in the West (well, North actually)

    The opportunity to hone my service design skills came again when I signed up for the Fast Prototyping Competition. To be perfectly honest, I didn’t even read the description, I just signed up as I knew that it would be a good experience and a great challenge. Probably because I didn’t read the description, I…