“Design Sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with final users and customers; basically, a way to solve design problems quickly.”
Source: https://medium.com/productmanagement101/design-sprints-at-google-85ff62fed5f8
Writer: Tytti Vaateri, DWS Tutor
Our third DWS 2019 took place at the charming We+ premisses, located it the popular cultural center Kaapelitehdas, in the Helsinki district of Ruoholahti. The agenda for this inspiring Friday was a Boot Camp where Unique Value Proposition and Prototyping were the goals of the day. We started the morning with a reflection and a…
Today is the big day. This year Sprint pitch deck took place at Helsinki central library, Oodi. We gathered at 9 am Oodi. Student teams arrived very early at the place and were busy with their last preparations. Every team had their own show table where they can display their prototypes. After tables were ready…
Digital wellbeing sprint 2019 finally kicked off on 6.5.2019. It was really exciting to us -the tutors- to meet all the stakeholders as well as the students. Our tutor team’s role was to give assistance to the students and to make sure the day goes smoothly and accordingly. The first DWS day started with reception….
The second day of boot camp took place at we+ as well. With a fresh piece of mind, we started the day right away with unique value proposition workshop hosted by tutor Heini and I. The tool we chose for this workshop was unique value proposition canvas. There are numerous reasons why this is such an…
One of our facilitators Heini Heinonen interviewed our first keynote speaker Mikko Kutvonen from Futurice. Read below what Mikko has to say to all our teams. Mikko started his career as a graphic designer and his current role is Service design lead where he has responsibility of all the areas of the service design in consulting projects he’s part of. Meanwhile he also works as a business consultant and lectures in summer universities mainly about design leadership.
Topic of his keynote is “Design Thinking”. During the interview we discussed on how he would describe design thinking, service design and what would he do first if participating sprint like this?
Do you want to help create digital services of the future for the health and wellbeing sector? We are looking for Master students (University of Applied Sciences) to tutor and facilitate this year’s Digital Wellbeing Sprint. The DWS is being organized 21-28 May 2021, mostly virtually but Covid-19 permitting also partly face to face in…