This week we learned about a diverse set of topics revolving around ideation. In class we made prototypes. At first I felt like I wasn’t sure where to start when it came to building a model of my product. However, Harvard Business Review and the Design Thinking Bootleg helped me understand that prototyping is more about understanding the client experience in one specific aspect of your product. The aspect that I focused on was my brush. When you think about the journey of the customer and what delights them, as mentioned in the Shape of Design, it becomes a simple and fast prototype to build models and let people try it out. The Interaction of Design Foundation was very clear about getting yourself out of the “analysis paralysis” mindset, and begin building instead of thinking. This is a way to move into the flow mind-state and forget about your obsessions with perfection.
This week I was really saturated in the ideas of connecting oneself to the costumer or person you are designing for. Kevin Bathune talked about how his team found ways to place themselves in the customer’s jounrney through real life experience or in-depth research. Likewise the Shape of Design talked about how you must totally saturate yourself in your issue and keep moving, keep coming up with ideas no matter how different they are, they are all in route to a solution; “Design can have diversity in its solutions to problems without compromising the success of any of them.”