Week 2/Thursday

23.07.15

Empathy & Design Thinking 
Empathy/Ideate

Whilst in the pit we had presentations about the design expedition and Empathy followed by some more explanation about the semester, including examples of a visual brief and we were introduced to the exchange part of this paper. 
Back in class we broke into groups to share our research from the past week discuss our ideas about where we might like to go with the project, and found clusters/groupings and paired up. 

Reflection:
Upon sharing our research we realized that we were all still mildly confused about what exactly we were looking for, our research was still quite broad and lacked the specificity toward any particular issue or audience. of course it only after this we had the 8 pages explained to us which cleared up a lot of confusion about the type of things we should have been looking for.  
I got a little confused initially and thought that i was thinking to much about a solution instead of the issue and ended up selecting an issue (depression) instead of physical activity like i had originally wanted to. 
As depression is a broad subject it was suggested to us that we should narrow it down a bit, to which end we chose the symptom of lack of energy/motivation as a point if focus.