Programming the App
The American group created wireframes for the first prototype of our app on Wednesday evening (American time). On Thursday morning (German time), the German group refined the wireframes and changed…
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…
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…
Define: Survey Results
We held the second collaborative meeting between the American and German students via Zoom. This meeting was arranged through our WhatsApp group upon finishing our meeting on Monday morning for…
Empathy: Creating our Survey
As part of the Empathy phase our group decided to send out a survey to better understand how young people interact with insurance. We opted to send the survey out…
First international collaboration on Zoom
Group 1 We held the first collaborative meeting between the American and German students via Zoom. The meeting was previously arranged through a Doodle survey and a Whatsapp group created…