Tag: technology

  • From Confusion to Creation: Our Design Thinking Journey at Laurea

    From Confusion to Creation: Our Design Thinking Journey at Laurea

    –Niraj Adhikari and Jay Naresh Chaudhary What happens when you walk into a class with no clear task—and walk out having built a service prototype? That was exactly our experience during two intensive and eye-opening days in the Design Thinking and Creativity course at Laurea University. At first, the ambiguity was uncomfortable. There were no…

  • Turning Creativity into tangible Solution

    Turning Creativity into tangible Solution

    Written by; Durga Shahi Thapa, Sabita Shrestha & Vijay Pulami Magar Why do some products do really well when others fail? How do you find what is needed in the market? What makes a product sellable? Are you sure the “idea” currently in your mind is the best you can do? How will you implement…

  • Our Design Thinking Journey: Think Outside the box

    Our Design Thinking Journey: Think Outside the box

    By Nikesh Thapa & Tripti Sapkota Vijay Kumar states, “Innovation begins with understanding people.” In modern epoch, we are facing many new challenges, so we need new and creative solutions. Design thinking is a useful method that helps people solve problems in a creative way. It focuses on innovation, people, environment, and continuous improvement. Designers…

  • NOSTALGIA TO INNOVATION:How Memories Shape Design Thinking

    NOSTALGIA TO INNOVATION:How Memories Shape Design Thinking

    Written By: Manisha Gurung Rana and Sagar Nepali In a world driven by rapid growth of innovation, looking back at past memories for design might sound unreasonable. However, new design and innovation are closely related to human nostalgia and the way of people’s life style from past. Our emotion and memories have become a powerful…

  • Thinking Like a Designer:  What Design Thinking Taught Us

    Written by Sundar Lamsal and Hemanta Lamsal Did you ever ask yourself how some ideas become solutions which really reach a point of contact? This is the point to which design thinking belongs. At the contact sessions, we did not only learn the theory but we went through the process. We started to grasp the…

  • Beyond the Sticky Notes: What Design Thinking Actually Means Today

    Beyond the Sticky Notes: What Design Thinking Actually Means Today

    Written by Nirmal Shrestha & Kiran Timalsina Have you ever questioned why certain businesses are able to repeatedly develop goods that go off perfectly with consumers? This success often comes down to a well-known trendy phrase: Design Thinking. But what does this idea really mean? In order to figure out how this idea is both…

  • “From Mess to Precision: How Design Thinking matters to reach to an End”

    “From Mess to Precision: How Design Thinking matters to reach to an End”

    Note by Bijaya Tamang & Rachana Poudel Everything which we try to create, starts from a crap and enlighten us that we are learning. Trust the Process All tasks have a start and an end. It means, from the beginning till the end or completion of the task or project there should be a lot…

  • Wicked Design – The value added by Design Thinking from an economic context , and into times of crisis. 

    Wicked Design – The value added by Design Thinking from an economic context , and into times of crisis. 

    by Andre Vicentini and Juliet Leal-Ruokonen In our course Design Thinking we understood the wide range context meaning of design that is becoming increasingly relevant in innovation management (Mauroner and Warnke  2020, p. 924) as compared to the business’ traditional understanding of design that is only applied to creation and development of products and services,…

  • Employee Experience at Tieto

    I attended a talk about Tieto’s employee experience this week and it was very inspiring to learn how Tieto make use of Jacob Morgan’s thoughts on employee experience to strive to be the best on the market for both employees and external customers. Jacob Morgan is the father of the Employee Experience Equation, which essentially…

  • We Should All Be Interested in Ethical Questions Related to AI

    We Should All Be Interested in Ethical Questions Related to AI

    by Miikka Paakkinen This post is the second of a two-part blog series on design topics related to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Click here to read part one on trust. Note: I will not go deeper in to explaining the concepts of AI and robotics in this post. For a summary on the technologies…