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User Inspired Design - Making
The course addresses visual and narrative approaches to human-centred design to illustrate users, use, concepts and contexts for reflective design, collaboration, evaluation and persuasion purposes. The course gives students skills in illustrating and explicating different aspects of products and the use of products and services by visual and narrative means. The students learn to choose, compose and apply design artefacts for different communication purposes that are necessary for designing material and immaterial concepts and solutions for socio-technical systems. They learn how to create design artefacts that invite contributions and create stakeholders' commitment, material for iterating and annotating the progress of design, to adjust the angle of scrutiny by choosing appropriate representations, to clarify complex relationships and isolate critical issues, to convince their audiences and to justify their solutions, and to contextualize design concepts. They learn how to use visual media to support oral communication and how to create self-standing presentations with media such as drawings, photos, videos, interactive demonstrations, physical props or mock-ups.
User Inspired Design - Knowing
The course is an introduction to the collaborative design competence area. The course gives an introduction to the vocabulary, background and methodology of usability, design ethnography, user experience, co-design, interaction design, service design, accessibility and socially responsible design.
Lifewide learning seed funding
Seed funding is available to support lifewide learning projects and faculty recruitment in Aalto University schools and departments.
Submitting certified documents for joint degree programmes
This page contains instructions for submitting certified copies of application documents for some of the joint degree programmes. Delivery addresses and schedules are programme-specific.
Student feedback and surveys after graduation
All the major student feedback forms and surveys available at Aalto University School of Business.
Interaction and flow in teaching - What is compassion pedagogy all about?
As a teacher, are you ever frustrated and annoyed when students do not master the basic knowledge of the field you teach and the basic study skills? When they lack motivation? It's frustrating and annoying, but what could be done? As one way, you could change your own thinking with the help of compassion pedagogy. Compassion pedagogics can also help in building flow in a teaching situation.
Information aimed at solving the sustainability crisis
The School of Chemical Engineering solves linkages between electrification and the sustainability crisis in three specific ways: by developing substitute materials and battery performance, battery recycling technology, and ways of producing energy.
Global boom in mining is on the way
Demand for many minerals is already growing fast. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that demand for lithium, the basic raw material for electric cars, will increase more than 40-fold by 2040.
Internship for BA Design and Media students
On this page you can find instructions of internships for students in Bachelor's Programme in Design and Media.
Researcher skills for doctoral students
Find resources to improve your skills related to data management, research ethics, IPR, dissemination of results and more!
Confirmed invited speakers of ITICAT2023
The information on confirmed invited speakers of ITICAT2023 have been published.
Alignment in teaching
What is alignment in teaching and how does it support learning? On this page you will find information and tools for designing teaching.
Competence-based approach and intended learning outcomes
What is competence-based education and what does it mean in terms of planning teaching?
Creative Sustainability master’s student Michael Buchta shares his experience in the programme
A Creative Sustainability master’s student shares his experience studying the programme at Aalto.
Oasis blog: The Creative Flow Experience
Creativity has a place in research. At every stage of mastery development, you need your creative thinking skills to distinguish yourself through work that brings original and novel perspectives to existing paradigms. Keep reading to discover thoughts by Oana Velcu-Laitinen on creativity and flow in academic environments. Oana is a former Aalto post-doc and the author of the book "How to Develop Your Creative Identity at Work".
MMD student projects 2021-2022
Student projects in the Multifunctional Materials Design research group (2021-2022).
Studying at the Open University
On this page, you'll find detailed information about studying at the Open University.