Month: March 2020

                This week I really enjoyed getting to choose my readings and become knowledgeable about topics I was passionate about. One thing that stood out to me was in Design Thinking is Not the Answer, Especially if You Don’t Know the Question. They discussed how just telling people about design thinking isn’t a fix. You need to change the mindset and the lifestyle in order to have people change how they think about it. Exiting this course, design thinking has had many take aways on my life that I will bring to future businesses. I think using humans to solve solutions is so intelligent. If you use the people you are trying to sell too, you’re guaranteed to create something brilliant. 

Throughout this week I learned a lot from our readings. One thing that stood out to me was in my additional article I chose to read. This article is called The Total Economic Impact of IBM Design Thinking. I found this article to be very interesting for a few reasons, however, the one that stood out to me the most was the hard facts. During our classes and college, a lot that our teachers say and show us can sometimes go over our heads, or we don’t believe them to be true and we are just trying to get our work done. However, this article has shown true and hard facts in regard to design thinking and the process they follow. This was really interesting to see the statistics put into a real-life scenario. 

Throughout this week I learned a lot from our readings. One thing that stood out to me was in Design Bootleg, the authors discuss how testing with users is a fundamental part of human centered design. This directly correlated back to thigs class and all of the activities we have done as groups and connecting with others. Specifically, the class where we made our ideal wallets. And then switched and made the ideal wallet for one of our classmates. We had to draft many different designs in order to eventually achieve a wallet suitable for our partner. This is simply testing with users! 

Throughout this week I learned a lot from our readings and Ted Talks. One thing that stood out to me was in the Ted Talk by Kevin Bethune. He discusses the creation of the first iPhone and explains that if you had asked first cell phone users what they wanted in the next phone, they would have said bigger keypads, instead the iPhone revolutionized the whole industry. This related back to our reading a lot as well. Throughout our Shape of Design reading, they discuss how designing is problem solving, and how we must respond and move as the space around design shifts and our culture changes. 

Throughout this week I learned a lot from our readings and videos. However, our readings in Design is Storytelling by Ellen Lupton was where I was most interested. I really enjoyed learning about Multisensory Design. Multisensory design incorporates the full range of all of our bodily experiences, according to Lupton. While reading this section I found this to be very true! One part that really stood out to me was discussing showering in the dark. We take our sight for granted a lot, at least I do. Showering in the dark was something I hadn’t even thought about. Finding the soap, adjusting the water, are all multisensory things I hadn’t thought about! This section really opened my mind up to discussing things I hadn’t thought about!