Now that you've chosen an area to focus on for this design project, each member of your design team should interview three or four people to better understand their attitudes, practices, hopes, and fears regarding sustainability in this area. Truly understanding their needs is the critical first step in our design thinking process and will help you in developing useful composite character profiles.

Create at least four Composite Character Profiles that will help you to define your POV statements.

Create at least three or four POV statements based on your Composite Character Profiles that will help you frame the design challenges that your design team would like to focus on into actionable problem statements that will help launch your idea generation.

We'll evaluate and refine these POV statements together during our class session, so be sure to come to class with your initial drafts ready to share and discuss with others.

Create How Might We questions (that are broad enough to seed your thinking about a wide range of solutions, but narrow enough to prompt your collaborators to think of specific unique ideas that answer the questions) based on two or three of your most promising POV statements. Prepare these How Might We questions before the start of our class session, and we'll use them during our next class session to begin ideating within your design team as well with other design teams to help generate potential solutions to consider.

Create a description of the features of your Minimum Viable Product (MVP), based on the brainstorming and selection activities during our Jun 28 class session. You should continue ideating within your design team to refine vision of the essential features of the product that you'll be proposing, then itemize those features — the absolute must-haves — in your MVP description.

You'll be using this MVP to guide your detailed design of the product your design team is proposing as a solution to the needs you've identified. And the features that you've identified as essential will the be the ones that will be most important to prototype and test during the next phase of the design thinking process.

• Make a Copy of this Final Presentation Template

Elevator Pitch / Final Presentation Template

How to Use This Template Use the File > Make a Copy > Entire Presentation command to save a copy of this template that your team can use to prepare your final presentation. This template is only a starting point to highlight the key points that should be included in your final presentation.



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• Embed a link to your team's Final Presentation slide deck here
• Link to our presentation: ______________

• Create a a video recording (120 seconds max.) of members of your team delivering your elevator pitch -- you can decide on how many members of your team will be delivering the pitch and what visuals will be shown -- for example:
• your Google Slides presentation
• images or live video of your prototype?
• You can create your recording using Zoom or any video recording tool that you prefer
• Embed a link to your team's elevator pitch video here
• Link to our presentation: ______________