Team Spirit & Timezones
We realized quite early in the program that, with Germany being 6 hours ahead of EST, we would have to navigate working collaboratively across time zones. We all met from…
Mural as an interactive tool
Mural has been the most important all-encompassing tool for the progress of our team and our project thus far. With Mural, we are able to seamlessly work as a team,…
Scheduling Meetings
Scheduling meetings for Group 1 was an easy process because we all made ourselves readily available and were very flexible. Our first meeting was arranged through a Doodle poll created…
Prototype: Creating our app
Moving into the Prototype phase we decided the best way to communicate our idea would be to create a Wireframe of the app. A Wireframe is a diagram of the…
Testing Stage
In advance of day 4, the group had worked independently on their presentations and any final work related to the past stages. We worked primarily on the refining the testing…
Ideate Brainstorm Ideas
Ideate Stage
Today’s focus was on the Ideate phase and this phase brought about some good ideas / solutions for the group to present. In the ideate phase it was interesting how…
Ideate and Prototype
When approaching how exactly to Ideate, our group thought of doing the Crazy 4's exercise individually, and then Ideate together as a group. What we did, is we presented our…
Ideate: Finding solutions
For today's session we worked on the ideate phase of the design thinking process. The ideate phase is the phase that our group generates ideas about addressing the problem. Our…
Empathize and Define
Today was a very rewarding day for Group 2. Yesterday, we didn't do very much physical work and instead discussed the problem associated with our case study. We also developed…
Empathize and Define
Group 2 began day 2 by sharing multiple personas that had been developed by each team member before the meeting. We used the persona template with name & sketch, behaviors…