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My first imperssions of Design thinking are about designing with heart and mind on the matter, main goals are that the user is content, user interface is correct and logic and things work as they are planned. And of course, the object looks good and designed.

Tuija

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In my opinion design thinking is all about being able to make a product or a service as human-centric as possible.

-Juhani Karhunen

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my first understanding of the term is the way to direct conversations and manipulate our thoughts to achieve a certain purpose in a communication or a negotiation. I am really interested in the course and want to learn how to design thinking.
- Nga Vu

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Personally, I think design thinking as a creative way to solve problems, witch fits well to my studies in automation engineering. I'm looking forward to learn new innovative ways of thinking and solving problems
-Joni

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my initial thoughts were -taking a risk here- oh no, there's bound to be a stack of tedious forms just waiting to be filled in..

Then I did a quick google search and was pleasantly surprised to find that it actually goes way further.

I have an interest in psychology so anything that can be used to understand human behaviour is definitely worth investigating.

In addition, nowadays anyone working in IT should have the basic understanding of this area as well.

-Sara-

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Design Thinking itself is a very wide topic to define. At first glance, It seemed to like it is more about developing User Experience. But I think this is more about considering Human Factor in Design. How human thoughts and thinking communicates with the Design of Products/Services/Technology. It is not the thinking of how a product should look like but it's more about how humans want to see this product.

Cheers,
Zubair Tariq

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Nowadays, the world is constantly changing with the advancement of technology, especially with the close collaboration with user experience and design thinking. Therefore, Design thinking, to me, is the core of business innovation development, which navigates the product road map by utilizing the end user's point of view to facilitate solutions which satisfy customers' needs and wants. Design thinking is vital to the business to build the best experiences for the customers. The iteration process in design thinking enhances the development process and produces more valuable, practical and creative solutions for product design. Design thinking is also accompanied with agile methodologies - a software development method to collaboratively build better solutions for business.

Mai Nguyen

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Personally, the moment I saw "Design Thinking", I literally did not have anything on my mind right away but I got attracted easily by courses about "THINKING" because I see myself as "not-so-creative" kind of person. However,  I love to see the world with different points of views and after reading "Design Thinking introduction" on campus online, I really got into this course and want to learn more and know more about this.
Linh Do

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my current impression of design thinking is that it's a creative way to solve problems and it can lead towards all kinds of innovations and solutions
-emma

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It+s like  a tool which helps to  create a simple way of solution or model  to explain complex detail or information.
Heli

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A creative and holistic way to approach the development of products/services/processes.
Satu

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Creative state of mind combined with an effective structure and process.

-Suvi

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I think design thinking is a way how to approach different obstacles in the future or present. I think design thinking focus on your own capacity how to overcome a problem with idea and innovation.

-Miguel

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I've been interested in the creative process and design for all my life, and when I saw this course online I thought it's something that could teach me more than just theory, but practices that can help me in whatever field I would be working in.
Rebekka

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I guess it's a process of gathering different ideas inorder to make sence.
Yohannes

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I have actually stumbled upon Design Thinking  for the very first time on a very special ocassion.

Last summer, while working for a start-up in Tampere, we had a Design Thinking session organized by a related field Ph.D expert. We put all of the ideas out on a large table, sorting, arranging, discussing, debating, competing.

So to me, Design Thinking is that process where you list out, sort out every single idea in the design stage of a business, a strategy or anything likewise.

That session was super exciting to me. And it was the reason why I enrolled for this course!

-Triet

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Design Thinking is most likely to be the way of thinking needed to tackle current and future problems or needs. So far, the straight way of thinking that took us to where we are now in history it has carried with it all the problems that we are facing nowadays as well as the improvements from past problems. But to solve those issues, we need a different way of thinking, a more holistic and cooperative approach. That will come from DT.
-Emilio Pardo-

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Design Thinking gives us the opportunity to provide solution-based approach to solve a particular problem. The core of Design Thinking is thinking and working through hands-on methods.

There are five stages involved in Design Thinking. These are:

1.     Empathize

2.     Define

3.     Ideate

4.     Prototype

5.     Test
Source:
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/design-thinking

Yasir

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As a student of service design and digital services I felt that I needed to include design thinking to my personal curricula. Design Thinking is a topic I pump into quite frequently. I think it goes hand in hand with service design as I think one does not exist without each other. Generally the word design for me means added value. F.ex a chair is something to sit on but a chair created with design thinking linked to the creation process is an object to tackle individuals sitting needs :)
-Pirita*

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To me design thinking implies, in the most simplistic terms, taking a concept/idea and turning that into a product/value. To be more detailed, it is molding a raw "non-physical" material into a refined whole that fulfills the desired result - be it a product to sell in quantity or a sustainable method of action in industry for example. And most importantly, in the center of the design thought process is the end-user.

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Design thinking represents a way of designing products, experiences and services that puts the user at the heart of it. In the past many platforms and experiences were designed by engineers and product managers with little thought about what it felt like to use the products.

This probably resulted in websites and products needing a bible size instructions manual to come with them, so that the user knew how to engage. The process placed the manufacturer, product features and other items first. Sometimes the experience of navigating a website or using a product was solely functional, not inspirational. Design thinking to me represents fixing this old problem, and putting the user first. - Mira Korhonen-Low

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As a student with a degree in Special Education studying Business, I feel design thinking is a bit like the way children think. They constantly ask questions after questions. They notice things that adults sometimes ignore.
To my understanding, it is recommended to first absorb information equally, without prejudice, and then apply some filters we learn from experience.
-Eva

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Design thinking; creative problem solving integrated with art and design methodologies

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Design thinking; creative problem solving integrated with art and design methodologies

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Design Thinking is a client-centric, solution focused and action oriented methodology used to solve complex problems. My first impression is that the methodology is bringing a twist of creativity to the basic lean engineering/innovation processes.

-Ella

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Design Thinking is the creative way to solve any kind of problem you might have facing in the business field: How to satisfy the customer needs? How can we response to the rapid change in this technology and globalism-tolerated world? A thought from business student
-Minh.

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The name speaks the meaning for itself - Design Thinking is a way of thinking, a trendy suggested methodology for problem solving, indeed an approach to all questions. Design Thinking does not maintain itself only within the product/service development boundary. If one understands the core methodology, he/she could even use its as his/her faiths in life, to solve personal problem. The main take-aways from Design Thinking are whatever you do it should be human-centric, you should chase after empathise, and you need to learn this by learn "assumption is the mother of all fuck up". I cannot empathise

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For an engineering student like me, design thinking is to come up with products/solutions that not only can correct the wrong and solve the problem, but also do it efficiently and sustainably, by doing research and careful testing instead of just launching an incomplete prototype.

- Linh

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Design Thinking is to use your own creativity to solve problems in daily working environment. Also design thinking helps us to understand the basic concept of how things work in business world .
Chandni

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I have read couple days ago an article from Aalto University, which explained design thinking and how it works. It amazed me how effective solutions design thinking provides for market using simple steps: interviewing customer.  I did not know that I had used design thinking in my school project regarding to where solutions where based on our experience as a customer. I believe that design thinking will be included in every business decision in the near future, when tools will be provided for everyone.
-Katja Fedotova

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For me design thinking means to put your individuality and creative mind in the things you are doing, to think without limits and frames and make the world more colourful and understandable. Design thinking is a way to explore problems and find solutions in personal and business life as well.

-Yana

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My first thought about Design Thinking..

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My first thought about Design Thinking..

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I think the Design Thinking is the ability to act creatively and to solve difficult problems with design methods. With Design Thinking we could make the services and products more user-friendly.

- Krista

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Way of looking things from user perspective. So it’s user centered. Listening, brainstorming, finding new solutions using example design sprint method, iteration. Maybe adding some extra surprise for the user.

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To me, design thinking is an approach towards product/service creating that emphasizes on customer's actual need. Before this trend, people are more product-centric: selling what they have to offer and what they think is good. With the design thinking approach, the customers are put at the center of every production effort. Moreover, since the customer's demand changes constantly, design thinking will help business owners adopt and improve their product/service.
- Chi Dang

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It's a way to structure the initial idea to deliver a comprehensive message to the others in a logical way. This process requires problem-solving skills and a flexibility in utilising different methods.
- Tran -

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Good, very thorough, comments! Anyway, this is just warming up, so you don't need to study for these "First Impressions" comments.

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Good, very thorough, comments! Anyway, this is just warming up, so you don't need to study for these "First Impressions" comments.

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Tarmo

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First Impression of Design Thinking (Web Designing as an example)

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First Impression of Design Thinking (Web Designing as an example)

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1. Empathize: Putting the customer right in the middle.
2. Define: Framing the problem correctly.
3. Ideate: Space for ideation and brainstorming. Once you have customer insights, you can ideate and design a website that brings true value to customers.
4. Prototyping and testing: You would need to create a prototype that can be tested. Get a lot of feedback and suggestions from the customers.
Testing means you may have to use more than one prototype, and see what works well.
5.Constant improvements: You would need to keep improving the website from time to time, depending on newer consumer needs and problems.
-Nhi-

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To me Design Thinking is an iterative process consisting of 1) evaluating who you are designing for 2) benchmarking 3) coming up with various solutions and concepts while keeping in mind the undergone research and 4) prototyping
-Kristina