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.
Emerging Designs
The course will enhance students' design understanding and skills through lectures and projects, emphasizing creativity and practical application with input from industry professionals.
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.
Education verification for recruitment purposes
Aalto University Student Services handle education verification requests submitted for recruitment purposes.
Oasis blog: Belonging – Practices of care and communality
Read the Wellbeing Ambassador Saara Abdi's blog post about the Wellbeing Exhibition, which took place in Harald Herlin Learning Centre 15.11.2022-05.02.2023.
Student feedback and surveys after graduation
All the major student feedback forms and surveys available at Aalto University School of Business.
The meaning of encounters
As a teacher, researcher and developer of leadership, I have had hundreds of opportunities over the years to support managers, supervisors, experts and students in their cooperation and development of interaction skills.
Exercise: How to improve your listening skills?
Listening is a key communication skill. Listening skills are related to both professional success and personal wellbeing. Listening is more than just hearing ─ it also involves the ability to understand, remember, interpret, evaluate, and respond to what we have heard.
Solid Mechanics Laboratory
The Solid Mechanics Laboratory is designed for the strength testing of materials and structures in multiple length scales.
Management of doctoral education at Aalto University
Information on how doctoral education is lead and organised and links to related regulations
Lifewide Learning strategy
Transform society through new ways of leveraging degree education and research.
Aalto M&A Forum 2023
Aalto M&A Forum was a top speaking event in Finland in 2023 on the Mergers and Acquisitions theme, with esteemed international speakers who covered current trends and insights as well as recent research on the phases of the M&A process. Our speakers represented both top-tier financial and strategy firms and academia.
Open course on Product Management, fall 2022
Introduction to product management, developed with leading Finnish product experts