We have many blog posts about the tutors, partner companies and motivational speakers that have joined the Sprint over the years, but have you ever wondered about the experience of a student participating in the Digital Wellbeing Sprint? Stiina enjoyed her participation in the DWS so much that she joined two years in a row….
An exciting and busy Sprint week is now behind us and having had time to reflect on the proceedings I find myself returning to one particular aspect. Design sprints and co-creation workshops are often populated by people from diverse backgrounds, different pre-existing knowledge bases regarding the project and varying goals for the work being conducted….
Recently I got an opportunity to participate in the Digital Wellbeing Sprint which was organized by 3UAS (Haaga-Helia, Laurea, and Metropolia). It is a seven days sprint that starts with the team building at the beginning of the sprint and ends with the pitching session. Digital Wellbeing Sprint is designed to solve the problems that…
Digital Wellbeing is an intensive course where students from 3AMK – Haaga-Helia, Laurea and Metropolia Universities of Applied Sciences work together to build digital solutions for health care service providers. Digital Well-being sprint is based on the book called The Design Sprint book written by Jake Knapp. Design Sprint is a 5 day process but…
As a course, the Digital Wellbeing Sprint is different from usual bachelor’s and master’s courses. It is done as an intensive course, lasting about a week. For us tutors, our process began in February, three months before the actual intensive part of the course began. I had previously completed 15 credits worth of service design…
Digital Wellbeing Sprint 2022 (DWS 2022) is over and now it is time to make some reflections of the journey together with the Sprint. DWS is seven-days online event following closely the Google Ventures Design Sprint Methodology created by Jake Knapp (Knapp, 2016). My Sprint journey began back in February 2022 as I registered for…
Have you ever wondered if you can solve big complex problems and test new ideas in just a few days? Too good to be true? Let me help you to understand. Designer Jake Knapp created the five-day process at Google ventures in order to help Google initiatives and investments prototype, and validate ideas as rapidly and effectively…
Wow! What a ride this has been. As I am writing this, the Sprint is nearing its end. On one hand, it seems like forever has passed because so much has happened. On the other hand, time has flown by incredibly fast. Looking back, I had some facilitating experience and experience in organizing and run-throughs…
As the Digital Wellbeing Sprint 2022 is almost behind us, and the students are preparing to pitch their solutions to the partners today, we thought it would be a good time to share with you some company feedback we received from previous partner companies that we contacted one or more years after they participated in…
As Digital Wellbeing Sprint 2022 is just around the corner, it is time to introduce our amazing tutors who are steering the process during the Sprint. Ashrika: “I’m Ashrika, Test Automation Engineer, Bug Bounty winner, motivational speaker, and observer. Currently, working as a Lead Test Automation Engineer in Accenture, whose role is to understand &…