Tag: technology
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From Tools to Mindset: What Two Days of Design Thinking Taught Us
Written by: Md Shanaullah Shihab & Pratiksha Ghimire Design Thinking | Reflection | Learning The contact sessions on 4–5 September gave us an opportunity to look at Design Thinking (DT) not simply as a collection of tools, but as a different way of understanding and approaching challenges. The discussions, learning activities, and reflections helped us…
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Shifting Together: How we learned to reframe problems in 2 days
by Andreia Pais da Cunha & Sayef Md Uddin We usually associate Design Thinking with sticky notes and frenetic brainstorming, but our two‑day course with Katja Tschimmel showed us it is a deliberate mindset. It helps us reframe situations, look at problems from different angles, and explore possibilities we don’t see at first or never,…
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What Do Groceries and Shoes Have to Do with Design Thinking?
Written by: Olukayode Adebiyi & Kirsti Earl Our design thinking journey began from different perspectives. During Laurea’s second-phase admission process, we took part in a group discussion about how artificial intelligence is shaping our world. Kirsti saw many possibilities in AI while also noting that how we use it matters. Olukayode was more cautious about…
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From Idea to Prototype: How AI Supported Innovation During a Hackathon
Introduction A hackathon is a time-bound, collaborative event where people gather to rapidly develop solutions to a defined problem (Briscoe & Mulligan, 2014). Originally a mostly tech-oriented format, hackathons have expanded beyond the technology sector and are now widely applied across many fields, including education, healthcare, and social innovation. What was once a space for…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
