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Design Project 2 | Team Work Plans

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Project 2 - Team Work Plan
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Map Out your Team’s Plan for the Week

Plan:

Hit friday jul28th office hours for ideating

Divergent/convergent map as a team

“10-15 hours per person”

  • What tasks will your team complete to create the required deliverables?
    • Interviews in by end of Saturday
    • Divergent/convergent map by Sunday
      • Different areas
    • Visual/physical model by Sunday
      • Could be sketchup, drawing, cardboard, Minecraft…
        • Not high fidelity, just show design idea for understanding
    • POV statements
      • X community needs a way to Y because Z
    • MVP definition
      • This “product” will XYZ
  • Which team member will complete each task?
    • Hisham-
      • Interview Harvard director, NYU student
    • Harvey-
      • Interview owners of Educational Institutes
      • Interview 1: Harshal Patil
      • Interview 2: Sumit Hule
    • Theo- Project manager
      • Interview—sister,

    • Thomas- Concept artist/green energy/food
      • Call brother about experimental middle school
        • Benefits of experiential/project based learning

Project 2 Brief:

For this second design project, you’ll again use these steps of the design thinking process:

  • empathizing - surveying, interviewing, or observing community members to understand their needs
  • defining -- identifying several potential problem / opportunity areas and developing point of view statements for each area
  • ideating - brainstorming using divergent and convergent thinking to generate potential strategies for addressing the needs identified in your selected point of view, then defining your team’s minimal viable design features
  • prototyping -- creating very rough prototypes of the essential design features to explore and illustrate the user experience and functionality of your proposed design
  • testing - observing community members as they test your design prototypes, then iterating and refining your design ideas
  • sharing -- presenting your prototypes, design thinking steps, and your evaluation of the effectiveness and impact of your proposed design

TO-DO / NEXT STEPS:

Work plan done by End-of-Class Wednesday
Attend Friday, July 28th office hours 430-530pm to review concepts
Project 2 Interviews DUE SATURDAY @Hisham Ahmad @ABHAY @Thomas More Riordan

POV Statements: [USER] needs to [USER'S NEED] because [SURPRISING INSIGHT]
  • this will tell us what we’re trying to provide (needs)
  • What are the insights that come from the POV drafts?
  • In POV we need to distill those needs into a statement. For example:
    • Professors need more ________ when on campus.
    • Students need to have ___________ at their schools, because today ___________ is more important than ever.

Harvey Created these steps for the process:

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Prototyping
Design Sketches
Physical Models
Digital Models
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Planning Your Prototyping Strategy

Before you dive into prototyping your product idea, think carefully about your goals -- WHY are you developing this prototype?

Often we prototype to:

  • Explain and inspire - by showing and sharing our vision
  • Explore - by building, developing, and thinking through the opportunities and challenges that emerge
  • Test - by testing and refining solutions with users

As you consider what type of prototype to build, think about how you prototype can be used to:

  • Learn
  • Solve disagreements
  • Start a conversation
  • Fail quickly and cheaply
  • Test specific features and chunks of a larger idea

Here's an overview and tips on how to use many prototyping methods from the d.school Bootcamp Bootleg: