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Thoughts on experience design

We are all in daily contact with products, processes, services, events, and environments. We experience these tangible and intangible things in different ways, we form opinions, make decisions and draw conclusions. The design of better experiences benefits all stakeholders, resulting in happier customers, corporations and employees. There are various definitions in the experience design field, …

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Creative methods in the manufacturing industry

Having worked at engineering design departments in the manufacturing industry, I have become increasingly interested in the use of creative methods in industry. I believe that applying creative methods reaps many benefits, it can increase job satisfaction, enforce transparency between different stakeholders and is a way towards new innovations and happier customers. Using creative methods, such as …

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Examples of good experience design

Various local supermarkets would need some help in making the shopping experience more pleasing to customers and work environment better for the workers. I’m showing here two wonderful examples of good experience design from Helsinki. 1. Eat & Joy Farmers Market, a small organic farm shop was opened in the centre of Helsinki and has been …

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Design-led innovation

Since it’s becoming increasingly difficult to compete with new innovations in technology, progressive companies are innovating by design. Tim Brown, the President and CEO of Ideo, has a good description of the shift in design in his new book “Change by Design”: Today the most progressive companies are challenging designers to create ideas at the outset, rather than enlisting …

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I'm Nina Patkai, an Engineer and co-founder of Finnovatec Ltd. I am interested in the human aspects of engineering design, supporting creativity during the engineering design process and designing better experiences for workers, customers and other stakeholders.