The Courage to Share Rough Ideas: Why Prototyping Drives Innovation

By Aditya Rai

I walked into Prof. Katja Tschimmel’s masterclass on 4 September not knowing what to expect. Design thinking was a phrase I’d heard, not something I understood. I left with something worth it, and something I needed.

Walking in Blind

The session got practical fast. Paired with random classmates, we ...

By Shila KC & Annamari Sandlund

Starting point: Seeing things from different perspectives

When we walked into our first Design Thinking course, we came from different professional, cultural and educational backgrounds. We also had different ideas about what Design Thinking was. Shila associated design mainly with designers and physical products, while Annamar...

Written by Iryna Ilyuchyk & Tanjid Hossain

During our Design Thinking workshop, Katja Tschimmel introduced the idea of Design Thinking 4.0, where humans and AI work together in the creative process. We agreed not to use AI during ideation. We first explored the problem and generated ideas ourselves, while AI was allowed later, during pr...

by Asad Hussain & Anu Maharjan

We arrived at Katja Tschimmel’s two-day masterclass expecting a toolkit. We left with a reframed problem, a paper map covered in Lego, and a clearer answer to why design thinking can survive in organisations where other innovation methods quietly die.

Day 1: what a model leaves out

Day 1 moved from Design Thinking 1.0 ...

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By Michael Sylvia and Laxmi Khatri Shrestha

It began with storytelling and listening
(Empathy)