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Celebrate moments. Prepare for the future. Create peace of mind by taking care of what we cherish in our lives. https://life-kit.us — by Anna, Eustina, Michelle, and Nandini from Carnegie Mellon School of Design
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Week 17 — So, this is Life!
Week 17 — So, this is Life!
Celebrate moments. Prepare for the future. Create peace of mind by taking care of what we cherish in our lives.
Michelle Chou
May 8, 2020
Week 16 — Final Sprint
Week 16 — Final Sprint
This week we have continued to work towards our final presentation. During the middle of the week, we did a Dry Run Presentation for…
Nanz
May 2, 2020
Week 15 — Building Narratives
Week 15 — Building Narratives
This week the team took a deep dive into many narrative aspects of the project starting with the presentation structure, the product video…
Nanz
Apr 26, 2020
Week 14 — Storyboarding for Storytelling
Week 14 — Storyboarding for Storytelling
After initially feeling a bit hesitant about a video concept, this week the team began story boarding and considering how we can connect…
eustina
Apr 20, 2020
Week 13 — Solidifying Design Concept
Week 13 — Solidifying Design Concept
Speed dating. After reviewing speed dating in our research methods class, we decided on three directions we presented to 8 different users.
eustina
Apr 13, 2020
Week 12 — Evaluative Research, Speed Dating & Prototyping
Week 12 — Evaluative Research, Speed Dating & Prototyping
This proved to be another packed week for the AfterLife team as we jumped into planning and conducting our first phase of evaluative…
Anna Boyle
Apr 5, 2020
Week 11 — Concept and Generative Research Presentations & Launching Evaluative Research
Week 11 — Concept and Generative Research Presentations & Launching Evaluative Research
This was a big week for us as we started the week presenting Stage 3 of our project Generative Research & Our Concept Generation to the…
Anna Boyle
Mar 29, 2020
Week 10 — Generative Research Synthesis
Week 10 — Generative Research Synthesis
This week we officially started collaborating purely virtually. We started to draw things digitally while discussing, to visually keep us…
Michelle Chou
Mar 22, 2020
Week 9 — (team moving online!)
Week 9 — (team moving online!)
This week is Spring Break at Carnegie Mellon. We wrapped up the generative research workshop last Thursday and each went our ways to take…
Michelle Chou
Mar 14, 2020
Week 8 — Generative Workshop
Week 8 — Generative Workshop
This week we spent our time refining our workshop and testing it.
Nanz
Mar 12, 2020
Week 7 — Generative Research
Week 7 — Generative Research
After presenting our exploratory research to the impact team last week, we kicked into the next phase of our project — Generative Research…
Nanz
Mar 1, 2020
Week 6 — Discovery and Exploratory Research Synthesis + Co-Design Workshop
Week 6 — Discovery and Exploratory Research Synthesis + Co-Design Workshop
This week was really insightful as we had the opportunity to present our current Discovery and Explorittory research findings to the INDEX…
Anna Boyle
Feb 23, 2020
Week 5 — Field Research and Synthesis
Week 5 — Field Research and Synthesis
This week was jam-packed as we continue to conduct research, synthesize our findings and prepare for next week's Stage 2: INDEX…
Anna Boyle
Feb 14, 2020
Week 4 — Expert Interviews, Conversation Workshops, and Graffiti Walls
Week 4 — Expert Interviews, Conversation Workshops, and Graffiti Walls
This week, we moved on to more detailed planning of the research and execute them. It’s been an intense and fun week!
Michelle Chou
Feb 9, 2020
Week 3 — Planning for Research
Week 3 — Planning for Research
We officially moved on to Stage 2 — discovery and exploratory research synthesis. In this week and the next, Anna is our meeting…
Michelle Chou
Jan 31, 2020
Week 2 — Territory Map
Week 2 — Territory Map
We began our meeting on the 24th by doing a rose, bud, thorn exercise reflecting on our experience from the previous week.
eustina
Jan 26, 2020
Week 1 — Defining a Topic
Week 1 — Defining a Topic
Before this afternoon’s meeting, Michelle, Anna, Nandini, and I agreed to think of a maximum of five topics each that we would be…
eustina
Jan 17, 2020
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