J08

My group:

Be
Ben
Ian
Chris
Julia
Cindy

If I would have wrote this yesterday, I would've said that it feels like we're stuck.  However, after meeting today, I feel like we are finally headed in the right direction.  After three full class days of brainstorming, we have found our target user, that user's general problems and concerns, and developed multiple product ideas for that user.  Today we narrowed all of those things down, which has led us to ultimately two different product designs.  We all are going to then formulate our own research and sketches to compile in class on wednesday.  Hopefully this will point us in the correct direction for the final product.  The group has been working as well as any randomly selected, seven member group can. We all have so many opinions that it can be hard to consider them all, although today I think we did a really good job of doing so.

I have fulfilled multiple roles.  I have carefully listened to and considered the ideas of others and I have also presented some of my own ideas and opinions.  I try to weigh out the pros and cons of each idea and present them when necessary.  I also did some sketching on my own outside of class.  At this point, I have done all that I can to facilitate the process.  In these next vital steps, I hope to be able to contribute greatly and make the process a smooth one.

Here is some of our work thusfar (copied from Julia's blog...she put them in a drop box)

definitions, categories and problems
problem list continued
Users and strategies
Mind map
Day 2 brainstorming


After today, I finally feel like we are on the right track (I am so thankful that we present on the second day!).