morning session

Welcome to
TEK495 2022!
 Teacher team 2022

Anna Rylander Eklund Maria Elmquist Constantin Bremer

Lecturer, coach Lecturer, coach, Lecturer, coach, course
examiner administrator

+ guest lecturers and an expert panel…

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Two things you have in common and
two things where you are different?

Lisa Carlgren 20195

Agenda 10:00-10:45 Intro – syllabus & teams
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Introduction to
Design Thinking
11:45-13:15 Lunch
13:00 -15:30 DT exercise
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:30 Team agreement
16:30-17:00 Wrap up

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 COURSE
INTRODUCTION
 Course aim

• Introduction to design thinking & innovation.

• Contrast a traditional linear view of problem solving
through working with wicked problems.
• Development of design related skills.

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Covid uncertainties
• Need to have some preparedness
• Natural uncertainty to be dealt with throughout the course
• Campus based course – but stay home if symtoms!
• Teams need to find ways to make it work

• Be careful and considerate

Zoom Etiquette

• You are in a professional context when joining a course

on distance
• Prepare yourself just like a normal campus class
• Dress as you would on campus
• Show respect to all
• Join in a calm and secluded place, not in a public spot
(such as in a bus)
• Video should be active, unless told otherwise
• Use your real name
• Mute the microphone unless you speak
• Lectures and lessons are not recorded unless announced
 Learning goals
After the course, students will be able to :
• Explain the role of Design Thinking in Innovation.
• Explain and apply ethnographic methods.
• Explain and apply synthesis methods.
• Explain and apply sketching as well as various prototyping techniques.
• Explain and apply idea creation methods.
• Recognize and improve their teamwork as well as their role within a
team.
• Find ways to cope with uncertainty and learn through failure
• Explain the importance of reflection in innovation.

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WARNING!
• Frustration
• Ambiguity & uncertainty
• Heavy project work
outside of class
• Breaks and lunches
fit exercises, not always
Chalmers standard slots

Foto: Lisa Carlgren 13

BUT:
• Explore new sides
of yourself
• Learn to
collaborate in new
ways
• Get industry
experience
• Extend your
toolbox

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HOW TO
SURVIVE

• Trust the process

• Reflect
• Support each other
• Ask for help, we are
here!

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How to develop skills

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Participation is key

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 Schedule + hand-ins

Course Intro Industry Final Home

Intro project project pres. exam
(P1) (P2) (jury) TEJM

31 aug 5 sept 14 sept 19 oct 4nov

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 Schedule + hand-ins

Course Intro Industry Final Home

Intro project project pres. exam
(P1) (P2) (jury) TEJM

31 aug 5 sept 14 sept 19 oct 4 nov

Learning goals (i) P1 illustration (i) Literature seminar P2 presentation (t) Home exam (i)
CC tests (i) DL: 14 sept preparation (i) TEJM (t)
DL: 31 aug DL: 19 sept Group points (t)
CC test (1)

Reflection Diary (i)

Team
reflection
sheets (t)

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General information
• Time: Monday sessions start 08:00, Wednesday sessions at 10:00. SHARP!
• Zoom links: Provided in Canvas
• No mandatory course literature…
… but you need literature for your home exam, and for deeper learning.
• Hand-ins: detailed information in Syllabus and given in class.
Always hand in via Canvas, using syntax provided in Syllabus.
• Attendance:
• Mandatory classes in Project 1 to learn methodology
• Fewer mandatory classes later, but you are accountable to your team, and
the learning is experience-based.
• If you can’t make it to a mandatory session, please let us know as soon as
possible before the session - email Constantin
(constantin.bremer@chalmers.se) - we will provide you with an exercise you
can do at home.
 Information about grading
Grading is based on:
• 30p Team-level: Expert panel evaluation of team presentations Project 2
• 20p Team-level: Team Experience Journey Map (TEJM) Project 2
• 40p Individual: Written home exam: (40p). 20p minimum to pass the course.
• 10p Individual: Contribution to team - Project 2*
Total: 100 p
*Each team gets 10p x number of participants (a six person team gets 60p). The
team jointly decides how to distribute these, based on each individual’s
contribution to the team.

Points will be withdrawn:

- Absence from mandatory sessions without prior notice: -4p
- Late submissions of hand-ins and extra-tasks: -2p

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20p Team Experience Journey Map

• Team assignment that will be graded jointly by

the teacher team
• Qualitative judgement, but grading criteria will be made
available on beforehand.

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afternoon session
Reflection

• Reflection diary –
individual exercise
• Try to visualize as
much as possible
• Reflect continuously
(after all sessions)
• Draft for home exam!
 Student groups
Group 1 Elsa Hillberg, Alejandro Lozada Cortes, Matteo Sanfilippo,
Shima Shojaei Shahmirzadi, Mattias Wiberg

Group 2 Bryan Joseph Arackal, Alejandra Ferrando, Henrik Grönbäck,

Luca Michielin, Jonathan Schmidt

Group 3 Michele Cea, Arman Dehani, Inge-Lien Diercks, Alexey

Gorskiy, Kasper Hägerström, Luke Peppard

Group 4 André Assunção, Lucía Fernández, Benedetto Cestone,

Rasmus Hultén, Daniele Staffolani

Group 5 Johannes Busch, Oscar Forsberg, Marco Romano, Tina

Samimian Tehrani, Aime Vesmes, Sebastian Zamola
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Team - introduction

• Teams need to agree on format for collaboration

• Discuss how to handle possible absent team
members during the course
• Agree on Team name
• Vasa 6 will be available
also for project work
 Group discussion:
Team agreement
• Team introduction
• Collaboration agreement
• Agree on code of conduct in team
• Team name – e-mail to Constantin
Course evaluation 3
Course evaluation class representatives
• Vesmes, Aime
• Assunção, André
• Diercks, Inge-Lien
Lunch presentation
Building an internal
innovation team at
Husqvarna

Sept 12 – 12.00
Oskar Nyqvist

Digital Product Management

Associate at Husqvarna Group
Homework

Watch the shopping cart movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dtrkrz0yoU&t=65s

Reflect on your experinces from the design dash based on

what you learnt from the movie.
• What excited you most?
• How does this influence your expectations and wishes
for the course?