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D-Vision¹² final presentation of the HPI School of Design Thinking

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

I’m an alumi of the 3rd year at the HPI School School of Design Thinking. We presented our innovations of the 12-Weeks-Projects on July, 16th 2010 in Potsdam. Further information are available here.


We have been overall 44 students in the 3rd year and we developed in multidisciplinary teams together with eight renowned companies and NGOs new services, processes, it-platforms, products and communication tools within the 12 weeks project. (more…)

Why you sometimes have to go back in the Design Thinking process just to come up with the same solution

Monday, March 15th, 2010

This is a repost of an article posted on the HPI d.school blog by Felix and me during the workshop “Innovation in early education – leveraging diverse cultural backgrounds”.

Ok, so we all know that sometimes you need to go back in the design thinking process. Maybe during testing you realize that your prototype is just not working or its fixing the wrong problem. You might want to go back to brainstorming to come up with something different, that does fix the right problem and fixes it in the right way. It seems like a reasonable thing to do. If something doesn’t work, come up with something else!
Today (Workshop day IV), however, we experienced a situation where we had to go back to the beginning of ideation. Maybe even to Point of View. So we went back and went through “Point of View” and “Ideation” again. Just to end up with the same solution we had before. So what happened? What was different now?

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Why you sometimes have to go back in the Design Thinking process just to come up with the same solution

Learning the value of cultural diversity through food

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Learning the value of cultural diversity through food

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