The most important takeaway I received from this class was confidence. Before this class, my experience with college classes was filled with lecture-based classes and little presentation practice. This class taught me how to present in a variety of ways. My prior presentation experience was mostly concerned with teaching the class and selling my ideas. […]

The evaluation process overall was a great experience. I really appreciated how we were able to build our way up to a full elevator pitch. On Tuesday, our group was paired with Olay and they provided us with great feedback concerning issues that we hadn’t thought about. We used their feedback to adjust our pitch […]

Creating our prototype last week was not an entirely new task for me. I have created prototypes before in art and other hands on classes that I have taken. I did find the idea of low resolution prototypes to be very innovative and efficient. This is a term I hadn’t heard before and I really […]

The ideation process went surprisingly very well for my group. On Tuesday only half of my group was in class and so we definitely struggled with coming up with a large number of ideas to sticky note on the board. However, Jack and I were able to bounce off of each other’s ideas on the […]

The Defining process activities that we did last week was something that I have never done before in a college class. In other classes, group projects are usually done outside of class and are not guided by the professor. A lot of times one or two people in a group end up doing the heavy […]

This task of turning food production into an assembly line with the customer leading the decisions is simple yet genius. Some benefits of this style of food production include: people with allergies knowing for certain that what they are eating doesn’t accidentally have substances they are allergic to mixed in; customers get to determine how […]

A wise consumer is likely to buy a product or service that brings meaning to their life. This can be a product that is more expensive but will last longer, or a product/service that is sentimental and brings a smile to the consumers face, or a cheaper but more authentic product that is seen as […]

   Of the eight frameworks laid out in Design is the Problem, the best of these is Cradle to Cradle. To explain why, let’s start by creating a clear understanding of this approach.      The Cradle to Cradle framework iterates that since technical materials are not found in nature, then they should not be […]

What is sustainability? Before taking this class, I thought that sustainability really only pertained to environmental needs and human actions affecting the environment. However, after being in this class for the past few weeks, I have realized that there is so much more to sustainability than just the environment. In previous classes, we have mentioned […]

According to Psychology Today, wellbeing is a state one reaches when they experience health, happiness, and prosperity simultaneously. These three experiences can occur at different magnitudes and by different means depending on the person. Malcolm Gladwell in his 2004 TED Talk, “Choice, Happiness, and Spaghetti Sauce,” points out that experiencing happiness is not universal; each […]