Design Process

Jumping the Fence

After defining the problem, this portion of the project was geared towards converging on a singular idea. In order to do so, we needed to consider all of our initial hunches, while adding more ideas to the mix.

Starbursting (WWWWWH)

We have a problem.

In order to narrow down the scope of our project, we decided to offer a survey to our collective network and the interaction design community on Reddit. In addition to probing respondents for basic identity categories such as age, gender, race, and socioeconomic class, we asked them the…

Eureka

So, we’ve finally settled on a topic we want to tackle.

It all began with sorting our findings into different categories. This gave us a more abstracted overview of the different topics that were brought up so far. Perhaps ironically, sorting the post-its only made us more uncertain. The…

Identifying Problems

The first week of work on the project was spent looking closer into what welfare actually is and what, specifically, we would like to work with.

We had a talk about what themes we would like to work with the most -where we saw the most potential for a long-term…