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- Emphasis on how you used the Design Thinking process.
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Reflection essay:
The Enlightenment
I entered the class of sustainable design thinking as a pure STEM student. When forming a window with my hands to have a look at my surroundings, what I saw was only one question: “Sustainable or not”. As a result, when my journey started in the Green library, I focused solely to the energy use of the library, specifically, light usage. I conducted a throughout observation and concluded that there is too much light in the library, causing a waste of energy.
Then I attended my first office hour. Professor Ong pointed out that lights serve more than illumination. It resonates with people's feelings of temperature and controls people's level of arousal. This leaded me to view the word in a more human-central perspective.
After my first office hour, I return to the library for re-observation. I observed others, but it didn’t go successful as people were frightened by my presence; I observed myself, finding that I stayed in my seat for too long. Then I thought others may have the same problem, so I surveyed to seek confirmation.
The results confirmed my assumption. So I move on to solving this problem. Instantly, I thought of making an app that could lock people’s computers when the break is needed. But then I question myself: do I want my laptop locked when I am in the middle of something? No. After comparing how people’s different sensations receive information, I eventually went back into using light, a humanitarian way to gently remind people about the time.
This is a story, started with light, ended in light.