Creating an Affinity Diagram

Introduction:

This week, our team dedicated our allotted three hour class time to one purpose: creating an affinity diagram. With four people on our team conducting several interviews, research, data, and ideas easily became too much to deal with. We…

Four Heads Are Better Than One

Introduction:

This week’s focus was on narrowing down a potential problem that we wanted to focus on for the rest of our time. Although this seems like an easy task, we faced a few challenges. First of all, addressing a problem to a room full of…

Campus Transportation

Introduction:

Last week, we pursued the topic of transportation on­ campus and the waste of space of paved paths throughout campus. We all went out to take on user interviews and reconvened on Wednesday to present our findings with the rest of the class. Through…

Introduction:
Last week, we found inspiration in the Fun Theory Project video that Lion
mentioned, where they convinced more people to take the stairs by turning
them into a piano. Looking at that video a little more closely, we
realized that while for the people on the project, the goal was to make
people make healthier choices, UCSD has a lot of…

Introduction:

Today: With our parallel prototypes in hand for our UCSD Park, we set out to get as many user interviews before our next group meeting. When we met, we shared our user interviews with each other and drew conclusions from it about what features of the park worked for our users and what did not. Afterwards, we…

Introduction:

After organizing our data using an affinity diagram last week, we took our next step into the project and began ideation. At first we started by thinking about questions to serve as our main issue to address with our product solution and ended up choosing: “How might we create a space in which students are…

interCUBE?

Introduction:

Our class is slowly coming to a near with only three more weeks to go. Last week, our team brought two parallel prototypes to the table, ready to get feedback and criticism. We came up with something that was fun, useful, and interactive: the interCUBE. The idea of the…

Wasted Space and Transportation

Overview:

For the third week of the course, we faced the task of choosing a problem space. Our focus was making sure that we chose a issue that not only affected our target audience, but also provided an improvement to the quality of life at the…

Parallel Prototypes

We started last week jumping back a few steps and began work on prototypes for a park. When we spoke to Alan again, he pointed out that our park or space is the medium for our solution, and that the features we decided to place in it would determine its effectiveness. Keeping that in mind, we…