Newspaper

Our fellow classmates gave us lots of great ideas during our first critique day. We introduced the problem of paper waste on campus, and in response they told us to look into the excess flyers, printer paper, and newspapers around campus. We talked in specific about the Guardian and it was interesting to find…

Brainstorming

Spring is a great season to start anything. This spring, 24 students from
UC San Diego started a new challenge with the cognitive science
department. That challenge is to redesign UCSD. Our team consists of four
students from a range of backgrounds: Crystal Yan (mechanical
engineering), Jamie Yein Chung…

Creating our Base

When it comes to building a house, it is always important to make the base
stable. This metaphor extends to the design process as well. Before
implementing our own designs, we first need to confirm that our problem
space is logical and agreeable. In our Cogs 198 meeting, we had another
critique…

From a Different Perspective

If you ever get lost in the woods, there are generally two courses of
action. The stubborn hiker will keep on trudging through his
pre-determined path. The smart hiker will stop, take a look around, and if
need be, return towards the direction he came from. It’s easy to develop…

Five Basic Principles

Think of when building a tower out of small Lego blocks. You have to be
careful not to lose track from what you have first drawn in your mind.
This week, our team traced back on what we have gone through until now.
During the Wednesday class session, as a preparation of our final…

In our final week, we’ve had the opportunity to look back at this quarter
and reflect. Looking back on our project, it’s amazing what four people
can do, with the right guidance, in under ten weeks. We started with a
basic focus and ended up with specific designs and implementations for an
organization on campus.

Sketching

With every design, there must also be a prototype to test the design and make sure it works as intended. This past week, our group started working on making our prototype sketches into a physical model, using cardboard boxes to make the stand. The goals we focused on were to have a simple and cost-efficient…

A Clear Vision

Having a clear vision of what we are trying to achieve is the key factor
in accomplishing a goal. The first step in helping reach the goal is to
articulate the vision statement. This week, we combined all our ideas and
insights that we found from the user data we’ve collected and developed
our point…