How to use Design Thinking to Create Better User Experiences

• Abstract
  Do you want to find out more about what design thinking is and how it can help you create better user experiences? Then join us for a brief introduction to design thinking and participate in a quick brainstorming session that will help you practice and test what you’ve learned on the spot. During the event, you will have the chance to apply design thinking methodologies in collaboration with your assigned team, while trying to solve a real user experience case study. At the end of the session we will provide the actual methodology that was followed by the service design agency that worked on the case. We will also have time to reflect on the findings and answer questions you might have.

• Bio's
  Tonia Michalopoulou has a Master’s degree in the study of the Cultural and Creative Industries from King’s College London and is inspired by innovative thinking and practices in the tech start-up sector, which she has worked in, in both Greece and Denmark.
  She is passionate about empowering people to achieve their full potential and about helping create workplaces and company cultures that nurture and help unleash creative talent.
  Recently, she has been working with design thinking methodology in order to better understand job seekers, on one hand, and today’s workplaces, on the other hand, in order to design user-centered experiences that can fulfil the needs of all stakeholders involved.
  At the moment, she is working with Human Resources at Wiredelta, a web design agency in Copenhagen. For the past year, she has also been involved in co-founding JOBx CPH, a voluntary career coaching initiative that seeks to help job seekers in Copenhagen find and get their dream job.

Helmut Bloos has worked as Community Manager at Rocket Labs, a co-working space provider in Copenhagen, owned by Park Street Nordicom.In this role, Bloos was responsible for tenant sourcing and managing, developing and maintaining strong ties with Copenhagen’s digital, start-up and media professional networks. Bloos is currently attending a Masters in Social Entrepreneurship and Management at Roskilde University. Bloos seeks to apply his academic learning in Design Thinking in developing a customer-centered approach to developing the co-working spaces communities.
His previous experience includes in Design Research at SJELP, a specialist software provider for co-working spaces, and as a Facilitator at KPH, a co-working space for startups, entrepreneurs and organizations linked to cultural, green and social initiatives in Copenhagen.

Morten Steinmejer has a Msc. in Business Administration and Psychology from Copenhagen Business School and has specialized in creativity research, the science behind design thinking.
He believes that creativity is fundamentally problem solving skills, which can be measured, taught and applied across various domains. He uses this knowledge to facilitate workshops and innovation processes in startups and corporations, in order to improve costumer experiences or come up with new products and business models.
Morten has founded his own techstartup, SympTrack and worked with several other startups in the Copenhagen startup eco-system. At the moment he is starting up as an independent innovation consultant. He is passionate about how to integrate design methodologies with agile methodologies, in order to accelerate learning and reduce time-to-marked.

Parking

• If you are arriving on bike, you can park just by our office. However, if you are arriving by car, then sadly the spaces are limited and we do not offer any parking facilities.
  Food
• During the event we will serve bagels and drinks.