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Designing the future with digital data

4.5.20214.5.2021

Data-driven economy is one of the key trends of 2020s, and the digital world is redesigned by data. We see the results every day in social media and other websites with personalized content and ads. Considering the health and wellbeing business, data offers major opportunities to build personalized solutions that help people to stay healthier and happier. I sat down with our inspirational speaker Minna Hendolin from Sitra to discuss data and its possibilities in healthcare.

“There is a need to radically redesign how we deliver practice and think about health care”, she states and continues: “The changing demographics and demands challenge the health care sector from the reactive model that we’re actually still in. Unfortunately, health still lags behind other sectors in harnessing digital transformation, the potential of data and advanced technologies. This means missing the opportunity to save a significant number of lives and even billions of euros of business.”

This means missing the opportunity to save significant number of lives and even billions of euros of business.”
Minna Hendolin, Sitra

Even though digital health and data provide a world of opportunities, health data is considered sensitive. It can be associated with leaks and hacking. Individuals, organizations, and society must take data protection and privacy seriously in order to create successful and reliable systems.

“The term sensitive data, it’s not only about health. All data that you can link to a personal identity is sensitive. People have been quite open to give the data in social media or when they are buying things. As a user or customer you should be able to know, and hopefully be a co-architect in determining when it’s used”, Hendolin sums up. She calls for data literacy: “Every person should have an understanding of where my data is, how it is used, how can I manage my data. The ethical but is that not everybody has the capability or interest for that. What is the responsibility of organizations, and how much can be regulated and legislated by the society?”

Bring in the right partners

When creating new solutions in wellness and healthcare, the ideal is to involve the right people. This means both service providers and companies and their customers and users. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to be able to combine expertise in different areas. Ecosystems are an important phenomenon in health and wellbeing business, and one element that brings them together is sharing data.

“In an ecosystem there is a possibility for different parties to work together by co-creating and developing together. They share data and expertise, finding solutions for the unmet needs. Ecosystem is a catalyst for innovation and business growth”, Minna Hendolin explains. She mentions as an example the CleverHealth Network, an ecosystem in healthcare sector that brings together almost 20 partners from medical and tech companies to public institutions.

Ecosystem is a catalyst for innovation and business growth.”
Minna Hendolin, Sitra

Never forget the real people

When developing new digital solutions, it is important to keep in mind the real people. How do they benefit and what does our solution offer? In the end, the value to customers is the only thing that matters. The winning concept combines a human-centric approach, networks, and digitalization.

“If you think about digital platforms and data services solutions, the problem is that we have so many channels, making us totally confused. Winners are those, who can combine different channels or interfaces. How can I bring value to the customer, and where does that value come from?” Minna Hendolin contemplates. “Then, we come back to data ecosystems. Can I create better solutions by combining data from several sources and add value to all partners in my ecosystem by sharing data in a fair way?”

Hendolin also highlights the evolving altruism in society. “It means that you are ready to share your data, for instance. Without getting any reward, for good purposes. How is this really changing the way services and business models develop?”

Towards a healthier tomorrow

The world has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing people to stay home and avoid contact with people outside their family members. Digital solutions are needed everywhere. To this point, managing with the complex pandemic situation has required resilience on a personal stage. On the other hand, foresight and data-based management on a societal scale have been discussed maybe more than ever. Is it possible to build a better tomorrow with data?

“We are able to build a more resilient and sustainable society with data. We are more prepared when we understand things better”, Hendolin says. “By building society and healthcare with data, it is possible to create personalized services for people, that are time and location independent. Data enables better policies and better decisions. This helps allocating the limited resources where they are needed and to emphasise the prevention of problems.”

By building society and healthcare with data, it is possible to create personalized services for people, that are time and location independent.”
Minna Hendolin, Sitra

In both private and public sector, services are designed by people for people. In the era of data economy and rapid technological progress, it is easy to get confused. “Never forget the consumer, the people, the persons. You can make them involved”, Minna Hendolin advises. As Digital Wellbeing Sprint approaches, this message is important to keep in mind.

Text: Johanna Hentunen, Master Student in Service Design, Laurea UAS

Join us as a tutor in the DWS 2021!

19.1.202119.1.2021

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 Helsinki.

Your tasks as a tutor will include:

Participating in the 3UAS Digital Wellbeing Sprint intensive course as a tutor. During the DWS, multidisciplinary teams of students from 3UAS (Haaga-Helia, Laurea and Metropolia) create development ideas for healthcare and wellbeing service providers from the public and private sectors. Your task as a tutor is to support the development process and the students´ work. You can choose your own perspective as a utor: supporting the service design process, external communication, improving the group dynamics etc. As a tutor you will participate in shaping and designing the sprint before the course, facilitate the groupwork during the sprint and support in the evaluation of students after the sprint.

Read some of the experiences from last year’s tutors here: Salla, Cecylia, Hanna and Michelle.

What we offer tutors:

Experience in organizing a Google Ventures Design Sprint
An exciting and fun course, where you will develop hands on service design skills
5 ECTS credits
The possibility to network with professionals in the health and wellbeing sectors
One of the tutors will be offered the part time position of project manager for the DWS 2022 next year.

We expect that you are capable to collaborate with different people and that you have some experience in development work. We appreciate a positive attitude, innovative and curious mind-set and willingness to learn new skills and develop the sprint with other tutors.

Apply to be a tutor at the Digital Wellbeing Sprint by 27 January 2021 through this link!

More information: Päivi Mantere paivi.mantere@laurea.fi, 046 856 7465 or project manager Michelle Sahal Estimé michelle.sahal.estime@student.laurea.fi

Multiple remote Design Sprints – the agile way of…

12.6.202012.6.2020

Multiple remote Design Sprints – the agile way of solving challenges in times of pandemics (12 steps for designers)

Design Sprint Methodology was invented by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz to solve challenges and test new ideas in companies in just a few days. When the first Sprint book was published in 2016, the authors were not sure if the methodology would work remotely. A few years later, the remote version of Sprint was created. It seems like an ideal solution in times of pandemics for companies that operate fully remotely, but does it really work? Does it work for multiple sprints happening simultaneously and teams of people who have just met?

Spoiler alert, we confirm Design Sprints can be done successfully remotely. What is more, it can be done on a large scale – you can successfully run 8 sprints simultaneously. In our case, it was 8 teams solving challenges provided by 6 companies from the health and wellbeing sector. Finally, design sprints, though designed for solving challenges by a team already familiar with the company and challenge, can also work for strangers new to the problem collaborating together.

To make it happen however, the process requires some modifications. Let me share some useful tips which may help you in organising your remote Design Sprint(s). I will try not to repeat key learnings and practices already listed by my colleague, Salla Kuuluvainen , which couldn’t have been better written and I highly recommend reading Key learnings from designing a remote multi sprint event. I will rather elaborate on some of them and add some more practical takeaways for those who consider organising multiple remote sprints.

12 steps worth considering while designing multiple remote design sprints:

1.Give more time

The original Sprint is 5 days long. There is also the modification by A&J Smart, approved by Sprint authors, which lasts 4 days only. If you run 8 sprints simultaneously, participants are new to the challenge, and team building is required, even 5 days are not enough. You need more time at the beginning of the Sprint. This is why we split the first day program into two. Finally, we also added a Pitch day when teams presented their solutions to companies.

The original program of Sprint modified for the Digital Wellbeing Sprint needs. Original image from Mural Design Sprint template by Steph Cruchon (Design Sprint Ltd), Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Jackie Colburn.

2. Have the right amount of remote design sprint team members.

It is said that the optimal amount of Design Sprint participants is up to 7 people. In terms of the online version of a Sprint, with team members who do not know each other and are unfamiliar with the company and the challenge, it is better to have teams of less than 7 members. We had a chance to observe the dynamic of 8 groups consisting of 4 to 6 participants and among them the most developed prototypes had groups consisting of 5 participants. It might have been due to each team’s challenge area of focus. Nevertheless, the online group dynamic is definitely different than offline. Particularly, if you need to include team building in the Sprint process, I would recommend having 5 members per team.

3. Have the right challenge – one per Sprint

The challenge at Design Sprint needs to be well-defined. Unlike other design processes, in the Google Design Sprint process there is no time to do research on the problem and empathise with users, so teams need to rely on company representative knowledge. This is why the company representative needs to be present, especially in the moments where the role of the Decider is crucial (defining a long-term goal and sprint questions, adjusting a map, picking a target, selecting a solution to prototype).

We noticed that teams who had company representatives involved throughout the process were able to produce results which were much more appreciated and valued by the companies. Not to mention that the companies also benefited from fruitful discussions and ideas which weren’t picked to prototype.

4. Ignite the additional power of innovation “stealing” and individual ideation

What I personally appreciate from The Design sprint methodology is the included time for finding inspiration, the so-called Lightning demo. When you look at all great innovation, you will notice that it is based on existing ideas. We equipped participants with an additional source of inspiration by providing keynote speakers from IBM, Sitra, Helsinki Business Hub or Proimpro.

Additionally, the Sprint authors understood the power of individual ideation instead of popular group brainstorming sessions. Group brainstorming sessions are proven to be less effective in terms of the amount and quality of ideas compared to individuals working alone according to research done by Yale University in 1958. This is why the Design Sprint authors introduced “brainwriting and drawing” (sketching) in their Sprint Methodology. Through this process you can be sure of the quality of ideas but you need some quantity as well.

Examples of Design Sprint ideas on Mural (Art museum)

If you have less than seven team members, which is recommended in terms of online Sprints, you will have less inspiring examples in the Lightning Demo part. In addition, you will have less examples in ideation later unless you increase the requested number of ideas per person in the instructions. I would highly recommend you do it.

5. Instead of storyboards ask for user flows (if relevant)

Storyboards are usually associated with a comic story with heroes which is great for visualising an offline service or a customer journey. However, storyboards in the design sprint are a map and guideline for your prototype. If your prototype is supposed to be online e.g. a website or an app, which is more likely in the virtual sprint, it may be useful to simply call it a user flow from the user experience field. Otherwise it may be confusing.

6. Have a tangible prototype which can be tested online

One of the Sprint Days is entirely dedicated to prototyping. It seems too short, but it is enough to develop a working facade of your solution to test it with users. This amount of time prevents you from spending hours on polishing the wrong solution. Instead, you will have a low fidelity prototype which enables you to collect better feedback. People are more willing to share their real thoughts once you show them the functional draft instead of a high quality version. There is one more rule you need to follow when doing the Design Sprint online. You need to have this prototype adjusted to online testing. It needs to be understandable and interactive online and you need to take this into account while developing it.

A woman carrying a phone and sitting in front of her laptop

7. The core of Sprint is testing with real users.

The first challenge to solve here is to find the right testers. It may be tricky especially if you don’t know who your users are. You can start recruiting during a Sprint once you specify your target. However, whenever possible I would recommend asking companies to engage in providing testers. They are the ones who know their clients best and they will be more willing to believe in results provided. It is proven that 4 testers allow you to have 85% of problems identified. However, having the 5th tester enables you to really spot those patterns (Nielsen et al., 1993).

For testing, you will need to use some online communication tool which enables a tester to share its screen and have the camera switched on at the same time for example: Zoom, Teams, Skype. It is better to use a different communication tool for testing than the one you use for the whole Sprint. A good practice for interview observers is to have the camera switched off in contrast to the interviewee and interviewer.

Other than above, the rules of interviewing are the same as offline.

8. Have one common tool for communication

We used Zoom and Mural as well as Onedrive and Moodle for communication with teams. Salla tackled it in her article. We also allowed teams to self-organise regarding their communication giving them a choice to use any tool including Basecamp, a tool recommended by the Design Sprint authors. No team picked Basecamp but it turned out that having one common place where tutors can add materials and where teams can share their results could be very helpful. Basecamp could easily replace Onedrive, Moodle and any other tool used for internal team material sharing and discussions. If I were to run 8 sprints once again, I would definitely use Basecamp for all Design Sprint communication, especially knowing how intuitive it is.

9. Use diverse online energisers

Using the chat feature is a great way to energise your Sprint participants, but don’t overuse it. The core of energisers is diversity and novelty for your participants. Use breakout rooms when it requires one-on-one or small team interactions. The order in which your neighbours appear on your Zoom screen is exactly the same as everyone else sees it, so you may easily invent some interactions based on this.

Design Sprint community — Group photo with our Sprint community

10. Tandem virtual facilitation work

It is always good to facilitate Sprints in a 2 person team as the second facilitator who is not giving instructions can easily spot group needs and be able to immediately jump in if any technological issue appears, for example, being on mute. The second facilitator can also follow the questions on chat and react to them while you are showing the Mural boards. This is why in the Digital Wellbeing Sprint tutors were divided into 2 person teams.

11.Overcoming a groan zone during the Design Sprint

If you don’t always have a Decider in the room, who helps at Design sprints to minimize the risk of experiencing a groan zone, you are more likely to encounter it. For those who do not have a clue what a groan zone is, it is a common moment in the design process where you feel overwhelmed and confused and are not sure how to proceed.

If this happens, make everyone speak and share their concerns and ideas for a solution and clarify the purpose. You can name it and say that it is typical. Aim to find a way for a team compromise. Have your cameras switched on whenever possible, so that others know that you are present and listening to them.

12. Have a backup plan

If it is an event for 40 people you need to be prepared for any emergency from technical problems such as a slow Sprint Mural board template, explained in Salla’s article, to anything else that may arise. Use your imagination by asking yourself “what if” questions and prepare for it in advance. The more you have rethought, the better your Sprints will be. The rest is having a great team to enjoy your Sprint roller coaster ride.

Last but not least – have fun with the right team

We had the right team to take and really enjoy these multiple remote design sprint roller coaster rides and I would like to thank Salla Kuuluvainen, Heini Heinonen, Michelle Sahal Estime, Hanna Lumenkoski, Henriikka Tikka, Pirjo Valpas and Teemu Ruohonen, Päivi Mantere and Merja Lahdenperä without whom this couldn’t be successful. I have learned a lot from this program co-designing and facilitation experience. Thank you!

If you are interested in how remote sprints work in comparison to offline sprints, we have some interesting data to share.

The Digital Wellbeing Sprint has been organised by 3AMK – Haaga-Helia, Laurea and Metropolia Universities of Applied Sciences for the first time fully remotely this year due to the pandemic. Only two out of 40 participants strongly thought that the offline environment is much more suitable for a Sprint. It is most probably related to the participant’s experience with Mural as a similar amount didn’t enjoy working on Mural due to its slowness. The Mural team promised to make some improvements in the near future, so this may no longer be an issue. Despite the issues with Mural, 7 groups delivered solutions which were highly appreciated by companies who claimed to implement them in the nearest future.

Stay tuned for upcoming events.

About the author:

Cecylia Kundera is a digital project leader and a service designer helping companies to design and deliver real value. She is especially fond of implementing a foresight approach and holistic mindset in design, because the Earth is not only for human beings.

Ready to get in touch with you if you have any questions.

Design Sprint Method Package

24.6.201926.6.2019

“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

Sourche: http://www.uxforthemasses.com/ucd-design-sprints/

Sourche: Knapp Jake, Zeratsky John and Kowitz Braden. 2016. Sprint – How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days. Bantam Press. London, UK. Pages 63-66.

Sourche: https://designsprintkit.withgoogle.com/methodology/phase1-understand/user-journey-mapping

Sourche: http://www.lab8.fi/tool-factory/creation-prototyping-testing/business-model-canvas/

Sourche: https://designsprintkit.withgoogle.com/methodology/phase6-validate

Writer: Tytti Vaateri, DWS Tutor

The Feedback from companies

24.6.201922.3.2020

Digital Wellbeing Sprint 2019 was very successful. Read below the experiences of the companies.

CSE Entertainment’s goal was to find a variety of marketing tools

The first group created a good foundation from the point of view of well-being at work, the second group introduces a highly thought-out application that will certainly be implemented in the future.

Both solutions supported the sales and marketing of walls.

From the Digital Wellbeing Sprint we got ideas to develop our business and thinking out of the box. A Very positive experience we can warmly recommend!

– Jussi Suomilammi, CSE -Entertainment

Our company has received very important and interesting development ideas that will surely be utilized in the near future. Students were motivated and hardworking. The quality of results and work exceeded expectations!

– Jukka Salonen, Hublet

The goals come to fruition excellently and the DWS was positive for the company. We received clear and feasible suggestions that will help us take advantage of future measures. It was very profitable to be part of Digital Wellbeing Sprint.

– Sakari Soini, Disior

DWS, Day 6: Finale

22.5.201924.6.2019

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 to exhibit, students had a chance to go around each table to check out other teams work. Every team looked super confident. Ready to go!

You are a already winner
Pitch deck officially opened at 10 am with all the company representatives presented. Then there came the opening words by Sprint manager Maija and tutor Yaju. Very well said in the openning words that this was not about winning but all about learning. I totally agree! We have all witnessed how much this Sprint has offered to us: opportunities, challenges, team spirit, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and of course learning. Til this very last day of DWS 2019, the students kept their spirit going.

Pitching
After the openning words, pitching started one group after another. All 9 groups gave their pitches. They pitched really like pros. If you are interested to know more about their pitches, please make sure that you come to check out DWS Facebook page where you will find all the videos.

Pitching went smoothly. After all the pitches, everyone got to vote for their favourite pitch via the voting questionare created in Google Forms.

Awards
The winner fell onto the group of CSE after a fair voting process. A price was given to each student of the winner group and a DWS 2019 certificate for the rest of the students.
There were cheers and of course also tears. To those teams who felt deeply disappointed because they did not the win the price, we would like to say that courage and embrace are your strength. This is not final. This is just a new beginning.

”Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

Writer: Lin Lamnaouer, DWS Tutor

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DWS Day 5: Pitch Deck

21.5.201921.5.2019

Today’s event was held at IBM Watson Health Center.
Miikka Kiiski from IBM gave us a deep insight of population aging climate in Finland. According to Miikka, Finland is facing a serious population aging in the near future among other nations. How to solve this problem is a rather huge and abstract. Thankfully, Miikka has helped us to break this problem down into a few perspectives. Understanding the healthcare trends helps to clear the obstacles towards the key to the solutions.

The healthcare trends
The trends are, for example, concept of personal healthcare is rising. Citizens will be expected to hold bigger responsibilities to their own health. Health related recommendations and nutrition will be more personalized. There will be deeper inspection between prevention clinical work and research activities. Other trends are the increase use of AI and advanced data base, increase effectiveness of the existing drugs and therapies, development of new medicines and therapies, and so on. Knowing the trends is just a starting point, however, where you lay your action points determines the direction of your solutions.

Holistic view of health care
What has left me the most impression was the value driven health care models. To build a holistic healthcare based on these models is one of the major pieces in the big picture. Keywords: the risk groups, interventions at the right time, out of pocket payment align with public funding.

Suvi Lehtonen, LaureaES – Laurea Entrepreneurship Society ry

Pitching like you own it
Suvi Lehtonen shared with us how to become a pitching expert. First of all, it is necessary to know what pitching is really about and how a good structure of a pitch looks like. Then, by applying the right techniques to your pitching, you are almost there to catch your angel investors.

There are the techniques that are very useful to a successful pitching throughout the whole preparing process. For example, a great tagline to your solution leaves an initial impression to the audience. Some good-to-knows are always handy. Do you know that the investors do not buy your idea but are more interested in how your idea is valuable to them? In another word, showing in concrate how your idea is going to genarate profit will most likely to get investors remember your pitch. At the end of your pitch, giving a perfect portrait photo of yourself or the team with clear contact information will make it easier to investors to contact you.

Last but not the least, pay attention to copyright of any pictures that you are going to use for your pitching. Should not you forget to practice, practice, practice and sleep enough. Ok. I know there are jus so many things to bear in mind. In case you ever dream to be an expert in pitching, make sure that you check out the events and activities organized by LAUREAES via their facebook page.

Now, time to work on real pitches. Good luck teams!

See you tomorrow.

Writer: Lin Lamnaouer, DWS Tutor

DWS, Day 4: Bootcamp

19.5.201922.1.2020

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 important workshop. Unique value proposition canvas canvas is derived from famous lean canvas. There is no other better tool than unique value proposition canvas if you want to validate your business ideas or service design ideas. This tool allows you to examine how well you understand your customer and how good your products really are.

After the first workshop of the day, we welcomed out first speaker from Pistachio Consulting to share with us how they have discovered the true values of their target customer segments and how they have successfully delivered their customer values.

The second speaker Markus Vihottula from LullaMe demonstrated their innovative product and how their journey towards a success from prototyping, learning and relearning about their customers, remodelling their product, etc. Til today, LullaMe is still studying their customers from different countries of origin and different cultural background so that their product can go beyond country boarder lines.

Afternoon programme aimed to assist the student teams with their ongoing prototyping progress. As a continuation of the morning workshop, tutor Anjan shortly introduced to the teams some tools to use during service design, such as lean canvas and customer journey map. Afterwards, a short introduction about prototyping was given. Then, as a close-up, we adopt service blueprint in prototying workshop as a result of solution demonstration.

While all the teams are working on their prototyping, tutors interviewed each team to gain insights of their working process. Here we tutors would like to give our all appreciation to the students for their both positive and negative responses, as well as for their hard work. We tutors have learned so much through working with the students. All of us have made this Sprint possible.

Writer: Lin Lamnaouer, DWS Tutor

DWS, Day 3: Bootcamp

18.5.201921.5.2019

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 discussion on Sprint 2, where groups could share their ideas, their findings, talk about the identified problems, possible solutions, and if they considered themselves on the right path for solving the case they are working on. This critical reflection and possibility to get feedback from the other groups and colleagues was very enriching.

Then lectures began.

First speaker of the day, Toni Pienonen from We+, introduced the idea of the business community the company has established as its mission. He talked about innovation and new ways of working; how outdated the corporate style is becoming, and how fruitful and out of the box working styles led by entrepreneurship and community leadership are becoming. How powerful networks created in this kind of environment can be was main message from Pienonen.

He also prepared an exercise where our attendants had to sketch the initial solution idea for their case problem, highlighting the core idea in one sentence and in a visual way; a type of exercise which has all to do with a sprint. Great practice!

Pienonen´s lecture was filmed so it can be watched in our official Facebook page.

Second speaker: Johan Wirta, the CEO of Nomo technologies. Nomo developed a toolkit for application developers with a patented measure method. The intention is to solve the problem of an accurate measuring method, that could be used for people at home, in order to make it easier and minimize the troubles of wrong sizing in online clothing purchases. It was very nice to hear from an experienced entrepreneur how he chose his path towards the online industry of clothing, and the whole process of finding a solution which solves problems either for the consumer and the businesses.

Then it was time to have fun and feel inspired by our third speaker, Israeli/Finnish game developer Aviv Ben-Yehuda, CEO and founder of Big Ear Games, an app which allows you to make music while playing and having fun, in a simple way, friendly to every one. He talked about the importance of prototyping and testing ideas as early as possible since this is the best way to get honest feedback from the consumer, and find out if you should or not invest in that. According to him, this validation is the breakthrough of every idea and will allow you to find if you really have a value. The importance of networking, of listening to advisors and talking to investors was also mentioned as well as how much you can win from internships and volunteer work, even if for a while you accept to it without a salary. During our learning process, the most important thing should be the learning opportunities and how real they are.

Fourth speaker of the day: Thorbjorn Warin from Windoora. He gave several important advices talking about the future of business and the path his company has chosen to trail. The increasing importance of data for any business which needs to deal with media at any point is the most important thing to develop and pay attention to.

After these 4 inspiring presentations where we could listen to experiences coming from outstanding entrepreneurs with a lot to share and say, we started our workshop on Futures Thinking. Time to burn our brains a bit – but in a good way, of course – practicing the process of thinking about possible futures using megatrends, and the concept of utopia and dystopia. Using our creativity, our knowledge, our hopes, and, why not, a bit of our fears, we created headlines on chosen megatrends for “news from the future”: an utopia and a dystopia, since one of the most important part of finding solutions, is also to consider what could go wrong even if everything seems to go well.

And that was it! Now there’s a lot to think about and get ready for the next Boot Camp.

Writer: Maila-Kaarina Rantanen

DWS, Day 2: Futures of digital wellbeing

14.5.201921.5.2019

The second day of DWS 2019 started at 9 at Terkko Health Hub on 10th of May. This was a very special day as many keynote speakers joined us and gave us inspirational speeches.

As an opening of the Sprint day 2, tutor Tytti guided the students to have a deep reflection on what they have learned from the first round of the Sprint. It seemed that most of the students had had their tasks on check. I personally thought this reflection was a brilliant idea and I do hope the students found it essential as well, as the next round of Sprint starts today.

After reflection, Tuukka Vartiainen from IBM talked about their progress and development on artificial intelligence. During his talk, Watson was introduced to the audience. Watson is a question-answering computer system trained by data. Watson can do many cool things already. For example, not only is Watson able to distinguish different testicles and tell the colours based on pictures, but can also roughly profile a person just by scanning a facial imagine. According to Tuukka, they are currently training Watson to have higher performance, such as speech recognition, facial recognition, text recognition, and so on. At present, Watson is at work assisting productions and services in a wide range of business as well as in hospitals supporting health care. When comes to the future, how fascinating it is to even imagine that artificial intelligence will be widely integrated into one’s daily life.

After Tuukka Vartiainen, we warmly welcomed Mikko Dufva from Sitra to take everyone on a journey of teleporting to the uncertain futures. Yes, you read it right. Futures. Future holds many possibilities and is full of uncertainties.

Besides speakers from IBM and Sitra, we also had Sanna Huttunen from Helsinki Oodi library telling us about their ongoing robot project, and Anjariitta Savolainen from Caleidocons sharing with us how their journey of implementing artificial intelligent in coaching.

The rest of the day was programmed to Sprint idea validations. The representatives from the partner companies sat down with the students to discuss further about the progress so far.

At last, let us not to forget the importance of evidence-based research in service design process. Thank the librarians from Laurea UAS for sharing with us the best ways and tools to do background information research.

Writer: Lin Lamnaouer, DWS Tutor