Example Reflection – Storytelling

Challenge & Selection

Design thinking tool is a methodology for solving problems that focuses on asking  questions and listening, with empathy, to the needs of individuals and groups.  Storytelling was and is an “essential human activity” for sharing experiences,  explaining values, and deciding on solutions through vivid verbal and visual  accounts.

storytelling is contributing large scale at research on first generation/low-income  students I believe so and want to share some thoughts. Storytelling is a great tool  that I use all the time.

Storytelling helps in explaining the interconnections among people in situations and  helps in settings, teaching broad in depth lessons that engage real human beings. I  work with seniot citizen people and economically disadvantaged people. Many of  these people deal with oppression their lives, they need to be empowered and  motivated and  I spend a lot of time “opening to people and finding ways to inspire  them to improve their circumstances. When I work with seniors, we share stories for  different reasons. Often they're lonely and are so happy even to share their stories,  which connects me

I often take feedback against the context of my story to ascertain their goals, and  sometimes we use stories to better understand their interests and thought processes

Application

Stories do generate questions and questions and that expand the breadth and depth  of stories, leading to lots of innovative thoughts and ideas. Storytelling has become  an important tool for feedback at this scenario, which is the basis of the iterative  process of prototyping that lead to solutions. Stories and prototypes are intertwined,  explaining and repositioning experiences through a multitude of potential  interpretations, which allow researchers to test new solutions before committing  exclusively to a particular policy, program, or service.i take their feedback and same  application. Storytelling has taken a variety of forms that are digital storytelling,  visual storytelling, storyboards, scenario generation, storytelling are done through  videos, skits or plays, animation, talk and image, text or image. These story telling

forms open up the possibility for many analytical approaches including, thematic,  content, discourse (use of language), and structural. The major trends and patterns  derived from these analyses, in turn, form the bases of additional qualitative and  quantitative data collection that value human needs as the authentic foundation of  research-based challenges, opportunities and solutions.

I have already applied design thinking methodology to understand the elements that  lead to success in higher education in the first generation and low-income groups., I  gained enormous insights into the types of support services and mentoring first gens  feel will help them navigate the academic and social challenges they face from the  time they complete high school throughout college. The anxiety are patterns of  behavior I found among first generation low-income students when they share  stories about their first encounter with campus culture. Many feel like outsiders,  confused by the academy’s social and academic expectations.

The social isolation, low self-confidence, and academic paralysis generated by these  feelings seem to melt away among first generation/low-income students who study  abroad. Why? What happens when they and their middle- and upper-middle class  peers travel to countries and experience unfamiliar cultures and languages? Reports  document changes in behavior among first generation/low-income students: an  increase in confidence, self-efficacy, openness, perceptual acuity, resilience —  general effectiveness in cross-cultural situations.

Insight & Approach

In sum, the storytelling is a powerful communication tool that enables us as a human  being to understand more about our emotional experiences. This makes it an  effective method to use during the design process. It can be used during the design  thinking process phases with a different goal in each stage. Storytelling can help us  to gather personalised emotional data about our consumer’s experience which can  be hard to collect using other research methods such as the survey and consumer  journey mapping.

