Journal Entry For
Project 2 - Team Work Plan
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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: Design Project 2 | Project 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:
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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Design Sketches
Physical Models
Digital Models
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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: