Tag: service design competition

  • 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…

  • What would Marc Stickdorn do?

    Doing not talking Just 3 short weeks after our Service Processes and Methods course was the Global Service Jam 2015. What a blast…and what an excuse to bring out the shiny new tools that Marc gave us. I don’t know about anyone else from the SID programme but I was able to utilise both the…

  • 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…

  • Learning in Action – How We Won the Second Place in a Service Design Competition

    ”Could you send a female inspector?” This is how Jaakko started our pitch at Sitras’s Service Design competition on March 3, 2014. The competition was part of Sitra’s new security forum, and it intended to test how service design could help to improve public services and make them more user-centric. The actual design goal set…