Visualization

Challenge and Selection:

We are coming up with an application called “Peace” which would ease out the difficulties faced by  the people in general. Since, people are really busy with their work and household chores and do not  have time for self-help and reduce mental stress and anxiety. On the other hand, those who have time  are depressed doing nothing. So, we used Visualization or visual thinking tool to achieve to a shared  understanding of the problem as we have people belonging to diverse cultural background with  different opinions. The reason why we are coming up with this application is because of pandemic  many are baffled, shocked and have freaked out as some have lost their loved ones and some have  become unemployed and are having tough time dealing with this harsh reality. The media house is  also brimming with negatively which is inevitably spreading and affecting lives of millions. By using  Visualization we are trying to come up with a solution which would be beneficial for everyone  irrespective of any sort of cultural background and would be designed in a way to provide and offer  them mental peace and this is done abiding by the legalities of doctor and patient confidentialities so  that everyone can speak their heart out in order to feel light and by the help of our professionals they  start feeling empowered with a blissful state of mind.

Application:

I start out by having a psychologist treating my co-workers in order to make them feel what’s it like to  speak our heart out and how relieved and relaxing experience it is and to make them understand the  importance of it during the pandemic. After a few days when they are done with their treatment, their  feedback will be recorded and analyzed. The use of Visualization in this is that people still feel  embarrassed to visit a psychologist for help as they think it is something on which people will make  fun of them. The idea is to eliminate the preconceived notions of the societies that reaching out to a  psychologist is shameful and worth making fun of. The things which are very important are perception,  perceive and perspective. The idea of these things are not correctly portrayed to people or the general  meaning of it is not yet understood by people. Perception means the reality of life as it is without any  sort of distortion, perceive means how you perceive the reality, that is, in a negative and miserable  way or in a positive and a joyful way and lastly perspective means the mentality people have created  by perceiving the reality and this affect their attitude and behavior accordingly.

Through Visualization why are trying to make our team understand these three things in a detailed  manner and intend to come up with a solution by shared ideas and finding the commonalities in them.  Visual Thinking makes it easy for us to note down all the points everyone had and brainstorm  thoroughly in order to analyze the points which was given by everyone. By this, we are answering the  four important questions which was taught to us in the beginning of our course of Design Thinking  which are as follows; what is, what if, what wows and what works. We discussed with our team of  medical professional who have done masters and PhD in Psychology, Psychiatry and we have reached  out to famous spiritual foundations to offer their expertise in order to help people. After that we had  a group meeting where the idea was discussed thoroughly with everyone and we tried to check  whether everyone is agreeing with the plan without any second thought.

The thing we had to ensure all the time was maintaining a common goal of designing and building an  application which would help people reduce their stress and anxiety and offer them mental peace.  This is the reason why everything will work smoothly because through visualization we will work on  keeping the common shared goal in mind and offer whatever we can to fulfill it. Then we talked to our  engineers and discussed our plan with them so that they are also aware of it and design the application

in a way that a layman could use which means it would be a very simple to use app which would not  cause any difficulty to the users. It would be a totally free app as we don’t want them to stress out  and not use this app just because they have to pay more. After the app was developed by the  engineers and was ready for final use, we used a random sampling of 50 people and analyzed their  results after using the app so that we are sure that it would really benefit everyone. It turned out to  be effectively fulfilling its duties and was affecting their lives in a positive way. This was our sign that  we had developed a useful app and that we reached our common goal through teamwork and the  burning desire everyone had.

Insights and Approach:

What I have learned from conducting this experiment with our team members was that no matter  how different our cultural background is and that we are different and unique in every way but the  general mentality of people is same everywhere. The need of peace and getting rid of anxiety is same  with every people and the way it is achieve is also similar. Secondly, how important teamwork is and  how it helps in brainstorming various ideas which helps us in sorting out the best ones. Though we  had our differences also in between that we were not coming to mutual understanding of the idea  mentioned. However, in the end everything was completed for good and everyone was satisfied.  There was one more thing I learned which is that no matter how small or stupid your idea is we should  never think that people will make fun of us. We should speak up and be confident because some of  these stupid ideas are what turns out to be brilliant for the company. The final meeting we had with  all our team members was the time where everyone’s feedback was mentioned and critical analysis  of it was done in order to ensure how we could use it for our benefit and all these helped us all along  and enhanced and developed our skills.

All these insights and learning were very useful and taught me a lot of things and I will make sure that  I will never pass on a judgment quickly and consider everyone’s point for once. Then how important  shared ideas are for a company and how important it is to work as a team with people belonging to  different cultural groups where no one is different and everyone is considered to be the same. The  importance of all these with addition of common goal and burning desire can make us build and do  whatever we visualized. From next time, I will make sure to keep all these learnings in mind and do  something extraordinary using visualization.

