Design Project 2 | Team Work Plans

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:

Harvey Created these steps for the process:

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Prototyping

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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:

5 - Design Thinking - Prototyping Methods.pdf

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