Week 5: Making Final Decisions

We are in the home stretch everyone!!!!!! I cannot believe that we have only one more week left of this internship. It feels like there is just so much more we can research and work on to refine our recommendations and ideas. That being said, I think that we are now...

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Week 4: Expanding Trajectories

If I talked to you last week about reaching out to professionals in the field, I would say I wasn’t terribly confident in relaying my thoughts. After this week, I would say that my confidence has grown, and I realize how much I still have to learn about engaging...

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Week 3: Empowering our Users

Half the internship has already gone by!! I honestly cannot believe it! I feel like we’ve just gotten started and we’re still riding in on so much momentum. In this week, we have really built upon the foundation of our problem context. The entire premise is that we...

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Week 2: An Ode to Our Future Users

Who is our user? How are they using this device? Why would the device be helpful to them? I would say that this week has largely centered around these questions. We’ve really dug into the “nitty-gritty” so to speak as we assess just what can be done to create a...

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Week 1: Diving Right In!

One week ago, I didn’t really have an idea how a virtual setting for an international workgroup would work. In my head, a design team comes together at a table, tackling issues and brainstorming concepts. Quite frankly, that was what my experience in the past had...

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