Design Challenge II/III - The End and New Beginnnings

The end of Design Challenge II came as the final pitch was presented.

 Overall, the group was happy with our various performances, and we ended up all celebrating after the final pitch. The feedback received (after the pitch) was a great encouragement and are thankful that it is finally over.

Replacing it is Design Challenge III - Improving Orientation Week

 The new team formed under people who shared interest in doing the same task seemed dedicated and focused. We needed to create a solution to improve the university's orientation week. So we began by empathizing with the users by identifying the various stakeholders and how they viewed orientation day. Then we began to define the various issues with orientation day using those stakeholder's point of view and continued ideating ideas and problems. Thus during the time in the workshop, we had both accomplished initial "Empathizing" and "Defining" of the problems of our final Design Challenge.

We asked all team members to ideate several new ideas and problems for the team meeting that was coming, and overall we came to several agreed-upon ideas:

• The Pre-Orientation was not well enough advertised. With Orientation Day's "lecture" being on how to enrol in your course, many students would have found it more useful to go to Pre-Orientation if they knew about it
• The Orientation Week was too clustered and was not organized. 
• A Easily Obtainable and Accessible Brochure with the location of each individual stall was not available and needed to be available

Using those Problem Definitions, our group entered the "Ideation" design thinking mode and started to ideate ideas for our various problems.

Overall, our team was off to a good start with several good, but easy-to implement ideas coming into play. I believe I have performed well in the first week, with the organizing of the first team meeting (place, time and ensuring members got there). The team worked well and everyone respected each other's ideas no matter how stupid or silly it sounded. (Renting the Botanical Gardens to expand the area and decrease clustering).