Exercise 3 - Design [Group Post]

Brainstorming Exercises

Parallel Design

For exercise 3 our team split up into 2 groups and we were to identify the pain points , personas and scenarios identified during earlier exercises. Then we had to write one word or a phrase in each post it. During the initial stage we had to fill up as many post its as possible and paste them on the wall so that its visible for everyone. Initially some of us had some problems identifying what to write and ended up writing very long phrases. We had to perform word association where we had an object, design action and an attribute. By doing so we were coming up with a conceptual design where we craft an outline of what the users can do with the product we are designing.

After 15 minutes we had to switch over and the 3 of us working on a set of posts its with some ideas had to swap with the other half of the team. Of course each group had to take a photo to keep note of what our initial idea was. Then after swapping we begin playing with the other team's post its. This is a form of collaborative iteration where one group came up with initial ideas and then the next group builds up on the previous ideas left behind by the previous group.