Week 10

Now that we've been assigned our groups and have completed our observations, it's time to get down to real work. Before any productive work can get under way, brainstorming has to occur. Brainstorming is essential to the successful procurement of a good idea, they just don't come out of nowhere. We learned all about this in the "When Ideas Have Sex" TED talk and it's very true. If we keep bouncing ideas off each other, we'll eventually narrow in on one we can all take in a good direction. 


We continued with the post-it note strategy and came up with a lot of good ideas and some pretty bad. Our list of good ideas has been narrowed down to improving student health, improving the rec, and redesigning the toothbrush. Honestly, I think our list is a little weak right now as health and hygiene are always in need of improvement, but, if I've learned anything in this class is that you need to design for people rather than awards. We could make a really flashy, elaborate design but if it didn't make an impact on improving students on campus can it be seen as a success? Even though improving the rec and student health is a pretty basic idea, it has great potential to branch off into a fantastic one.
The project management plan was easy and straightforward. As a group we all agreed to get our equally divided portions in on the assigned date and we wouldn't have any issues. We're also sharing equal power. We have a group leader but they're more of a figurehead than anything else.