AI is doing what designers, #designThinking and #designSprint advocates have advocated for 15 years: getting product managers to adopt rapid prototyping early on. Now, I’ve product managers asking me for ‘Figma Make’ access. And then for a designer, 1 week later, to thoroughly think things through.

Apply now for Victoria Riess’ Course Design Thinking and Innovation

Apply now for Victoria Riess’ Course Design Thinking and Innovation

Develop a digital business prototype

Victoria Riess’ Course Design Thinking and Innovation

The Chair of Strategic Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship offers the course Design Thinking and Innovation for students at the University of Passau in the Winter Term 2025/26.

The Design Thinking and Innovation course will enable you to deploy the ideas and concepts around digital work on a live project to build out and present your digital business ideas.

You will work together in agile teams to advance the narrative of digital innovation, business model, and roadmap ideas.

At the end of the course, you will:

  • Have hands-on working experience of applying agile sprint techniques to design a digital innovation project
  • Be able to apply a range of digital business concepts and methodologies to develop and build business propositions
  • Provide an opportunity to be introduced to basic high-level technology
  • Be able to discuss and justify a digital business prototype to a senior audience
  • Students, join Victoria Riess November 14 in Passau as she teaches you how to be agile in your innovation process in times of polycrises!

    📅 Friday, November 14, 2025

    🕒 09:00 am

    📍 University of Passau

    📝 Register

    Course Design Thinking and Innovation at University of Passau

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    Design Sprint schedule example from a student thesis project.

    Airaksinen, V., Hyrri, M., Kannisto, R. & Nieminen, V. 2022. Nokia Arena Event Application — A Case Study of Nokia Corporation. http://www.theseus.fi/handle/10024/781353

    #opiskelu #thesis #DesignSprint

    Theseus: Nokia Arena Event Application — A Case Study of Nokia Corporation

    𝗧-𝟭 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀!

    𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻, some of the ideas and concepts around digital work.. It’s THE place to be!

    𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘂 as I teach you on:

    “𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻“

    𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽

    https://www.wiwi.uni-passau.de/en/strategy-innovation/teaching/seminars-and-workshops/translate-to-englisch-masterworkshop-strategy-and-innovation-in-healthcare-1

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    Bachelor Workshop "Design Sprint for Digital Innovation" • University of Passau