Week 14: Reflection

Personal reflections

🏁Topic

Each designer is expected to document their ongoing reflections on their design experience in the course. Some questions that inform your personal reflections on course readings and your experience as a designer include the design agility metacognition framework.

After the presentation, we made plans for the next two or three weeks and organized the list of what to do. In the process, we considered how much we could concentrate on the rest of the time to implement the results. Therefore, our team decided to create 1. Introduction video, 2.Product design, 3.Micro website and do storytelling based on those artifacts at the final presentation. Because from the last presentation, we thought that we were too dedicated to explain the backend and structure rather than sympathize with the audience. From this experience, we realized the importance of letting users acknowledge the problem space of the project.

First of all, we did a card sorting exercise to refine the user flow of the product level. We asked our testers to reorganize the cards that only shows the name of the feature, but the name on it, and asked their rationale. The result was interesting. There were several overlapping parts of their views, and their perspective was fresh and helpful. Through this prototyping and validation process, we were able to see the ongoing project from a new perspective, which gave us insights for further development.