Design ExerciseCPSC 581 - Fall 2015

Today’s Exercise

I needed a design exercise suitable for a 75 minute class today.

David tells me that maybe the CPSC 581 participation tracking board can be improved.

let’s put design thinking to work!

Ready?

Requirements

Encourage all students in CPSC 581 to contribute and participate.

Identify and acknowledge student contributions, which ultimately determines the participation mark.

Design Teams

4 groups

Empathize

The needs of the student:

What would encourage your classmate to participate more?

What may be impeding him/her from contributing?

5 minutes

Empathize

The needs of the instructor:

Put yourself into our shoes now.

What do the instructors need the system or process to do for them?

4 minutes

Define

Collect your notes and formulate a concise problem statement for what you need to design.

3 minutes

Define

Compare and discuss problem statements within your team.

Try to reach consensus on a single, best statement of your design goal.

5 minutes

Ideate

Sketch as many ideas as you can!

Focus on just the concepts now, practical or impractical, realistic or not, anything goes…

5 minutes

Ideate

As a group, identify some of your most promising ideas.

Do this in pairs, round robin, turns, democracy, or any way that works.

8 minutes

Ideate

Explore your best ideas by sketching.

Start to think about implementation or realization details of the ideas, sketching alternatives or variations.

4 minutes

Ideate

Select your group’s one best design.

Prepare to present this design, refining your sketches as needed.

4 minutes

Convergence

Let’s have one designee from each team present their design!

Other teams can critique and we’ll have one final round of refinements

4 minutes each

Convergence

As a team, decide if and how you can incorporate feedback.

Make a sketch of your final design that best solves our problem.

4 minutes

Test

It’s time for us as a design team to render a final decision.

Hopefully it’s something we can put to the test right away!

Project Zero

Remember to prepare a demo of your button prototype for Friday.

You’ll have 6 minutes to show off your prototype!