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Design Notebook Entry for D1
There are three parts to this writeup. First, describe how your individual persona are the same or different, what your final set of persona is, and how you decided that this set of persona is comprehensive for your problem. Next, describe what this set of persona tells you about your problem. What do your users need to do? What pain points do your users encouunter? What do your users want to gain? Finally, describe the value proposition of your future product by answering the following questions: (1)
What will you do? Describe the high-level problem that you are trying to solve, and observations that led you to identify this problem. How can your project address this problem? Take this as an opportunity to describe what motivates you personally to work on this specific project topic. (2)
Why you? Describe the potential value your solution can bring, above and beyond the solutions that currently exist. (3)
How will it help? Without coming up with any solution yet, describe what user needs you are you satisfying and the desired outcomes. Note that the project topics are broad, so you can interpret the topic in your own way and find a specific angle to focus on. In your value proposition, make sure you are NOT proposing a solution; you are merely describing the problem and the outcomes if the problem is solved.
T2: Team Building Exercise #1
Complete this
activity from the d.school book "Creative Acts for Curious People". Write up a summary of your experience (250 word max) in the design notebook. Include photos that you took.
P3: Draft Interview Questions.
Watch the lecture videos on "Conducting Interviews", "Example of a Good Interview", "Example of a Bad Interview".
First, using the persona and empathy maps as a guide, decide who the participants for your user interviews will be. Second, draft the interview questions. Based on your value proposition, decide what you need/want to know. Come up with 3 high-level questions. For each high-level question, come up with at least 5 specific interview questions. In total, you should have 3 high-level questions, and 15 specific questions. Think about what are good vs bad questions. Finally, describe your plan of where to find users, your procedure for contacting users and interviewing them, and how many users you plan to interview each week. Document all of this in the design notebook.
Print out your interview questions and bring them to the next studio lab; you will be conducting mock interviews with students from other teams.