BACKPACK DESIGN

EMPATHY:
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Develop Empathy (10 min)

• Groups of 3
• One person from each group interviewed by another group.

Develop Empathy (10 min)

• What items do you carry in your backpack now?
• What other items do you need your backpack to carry?
• What problems do you have with your backback?

Define the Problem (10 min)

• What needs do you need to fulfill for your user?
• _____ wants their backpack to ______.

Brainstorm (10 min)

• You have a budget of $1,000,000
• Create a sketch of your solution.

Prototype (40 min)

• All materials allowed!
• Does it satisfy all your user's needs?

Prototype Review (5 min)

• Meet with your backpack client. How does your backpack design satisfy their needs?
• What is done REALLY well?
• What suggestions do you have for the design team?
• Does it satisfy your needs?

Finish Prototype (40 min)

• Meet with your backpack client. How does your backpack design satisfy their needs?
• What is done REALLY well?
• What suggestions do you have for the design team?
• Does it satisfy your needs?

Test/Feedback (10 min)

• What works reall well? What could use some more thought?
• What changes to your backpack design would you make based on feedback?

PRESENTING YOUR DESIGN CHALLENGE

• Introduce yourselves.
• State your design challenge.
• Who are your users?
• What phase in the commerce cycle is your design?

FEEDBACK STARTERS

• What I think works really well is...
• An improvement I think might help is...
• May I suggest...
• Have you thought about...
• How would I...
• What would be another way to...
• What part of the commerce cycle does your solution improve?

RANDOM OBJECT EXERCISE

• Find the most interesting object that your team is currently in possession of.
• Take a 5 min walking meeting, come up with an alternative use for your object that does not relate to it's original function.
• You have 1 minute to present to the class.