Aalto DFRead on for insights from the d.confestival and d.safari in September 2017 on how design thinking can be brought to large companies.
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Insights
Refresh your thinking on innovation
Tua Björklund 13/07/2017In Finland, much of the nation halts to a stand-still in July. This can offer a perfect time to refresh and get some new inspiration for your work. Read on for a few questions you may want to ask yourself, and some easy reads to provoke more thinking on the topics.
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Open position: Aalto University Design Factory is looking for a part-time team player!
Tiina Tuulos 10/01/2017In an ideal world, one would only be doing things that one loves most. A true team player is a person, who loves to do whatever is needed, in order to achieve the common goal. A perfect team player is exactly what we are looking for.
Full postProtected: Research paper: Self-efficacy in product development student teams – what shapes students’ perceived self-efficacy
ResearchTools 10/01/2017
Creating resources out of thin air
Tua Björklund 14/12/2016Everyone and everything starts from something. Read on for insights on how to create traction with little resources from one of the journal publications on and of the community published this Fall.
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Protected: Master’s Thesis: ADF from a pilot project to a global network by Päivi Oinonen
ResearchTools 23/11/2016
DFGN world map – 13 institutions
ResearchTools 23/11/2016Use this to present the DFGN network
Full post Does early ideation result in collaborative fixation within a development team?
Miko Laakso 04/11/2016Various types of creative sessions are typically held early on in projects to help design teams in exploring the solution space and ensuring a wide consideration of potential design directions. However, research has shown that such a group situation might result in fixation effects from exposure to ideas and perceptions of other group members. Miko, Tua and Senni studied how an early ideation workshop affects the range of perspectives to the problem and ideas for solutions present within interdisciplinary teams.
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Greetings from the design creativity research community, convening at Atlanta at the 4th International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC)! Read on for some interesting results from a place where laughter yoga, standardized tests, and prototyping facilities in actual castles all co-exist in peace.
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