Design Thinking: Problem Solving with Purpose

Final Day of Design Thinking: Presentations and Bonding

March 30, 2018March 30, 2018Blog Editor

We started off our day of Intensive Learning by doing our presentations in preparation for our final “pitches” to various faculty and staff members. Our last set of feedback from these members of the MFS community both encouraged our ideas and suggested alternative and new ways to approach the topic. We learned that the...

Finalizing Our Ideas

March 28, 2018March 29, 2018Blog Editor

Today was a day of work! We increased our focused on putting the finishing touches on our design ideas. From the morning, we took the two main solutions that were formed from the past week and decided which aspects of them we would like to pursue. As we were working on a final presentation...

Overcoming Challenges

March 27, 2018March 28, 2018Blog Editor

Our day was filled with many interesting and exciting Design Thinking activities!!! First, we put the final touches on our improved prototype from yesterday so that they were ready to be seen by others within the community. We placed them in Stokes Hall in order to receive feedback protocol from people outside of the...

Presenting and Feedback (Design Thinking Day 2)

March 26, 2018March 27, 2018Blog Editor

In today’s Design Thinking workshop, we were fully engaged in our projects. We deeply analyzed our ideas for our low-resolution prototypes, providing positive feedback and constructive criticism in order to improve our projects even more. Our Gallery Walks supplied a large amount of advice that pointed us in the right direction to create mini-presentations....

Confronting the Cafeteria (Design Thinking: Day 1)

March 23, 2018March 27, 2018Blog Editor

Today we officially began the process of Design Thinking through a “Flash Lab,” which is a quick round through the DEEPdt flow. We started the procedure by identifying the DEEPdt acronym, which stands for Discover, Empathize, Experiment, and Produce. We watched various videos that explained each step of the process, and then we presented...