Learning Launch

Challenge & Selection

I am a second year college student and a team leader of a college assignment project. Our

challenge is to create new ideas to surmount the environmental problems issues with the maximization  used of technology to create a better day of our earth. Unfortunately, because I am still a college student,  so the project is limited to internal resources, for instance, in budget and time. My lecturer has been  giving us time to finished the project in less than three weeks.

As a youth, it is important to make a movement as soon as possible, but we obviously know

that it would not going to be easy since we know, sometimes, our innovation that we perceived as a big  and obvious chances are somebody has already seen it. Besides of that, our diverse innovation also  possibly being the obstacle because of the different mindset of each person has, it is actually great that  people actively participated with conveying their innovation, but we had to decide which would be the  best innovation result that would end up representing our team ideas and how to make it. To decide the  best innovation and try to make it, my team realized that we must do lots of experiment and search for  the confirming or the disconfirming data.

Selection

Because of the current situation that I have told you in the previous paragraph, so in the first

step I decided to make a small discussion to create a growth mindset of each person, perhaps from this  we could exactly know what to do in the right place to create a stable environment. Then, we conveyed  our innovation and found which is the best idea to be implemented by conducting the experiment  through the learning launch tool. Learning launch tool is a great tool that could raise the level of  engagement in our project so we could do wonders to our ideas. Learning launch tool also allows us to  conduct a quick and cheap experiment to test the idea or the prototype so we finally could get the best  final result.

Application

After my team and i already had a discussion for approximately along two days, finally, we got

several points to discuss more further and go to the next step (do the experiment). For our first learning  launch, we focused on what we could do in spreading awareness among the youth for the current  environmental problems issues using the technology. We already had conducted the experiment through  a great way. We decided to make online campaign about the important to protect our earth (for instance:  climate changes issues) through the social media platform (instagram, twitter and tiktok). We assumed  this could make many youth, especially college student, would actively participate on this campaign by  sharing the poster they had created, from the illustration application, regarding to the environmental  problems. As the result, unwittingly, not only would the youth improve their awareness of  environmental problems issues, but also their ability in using technology properly. These sessions  occurred within in a two-week timeframe, this means the campaign held simultaneously with the second  learning launch.

For our second learning launch, we focused on how to make a real-quick movement to protect

our earth among the youth or even human in earth by making a daily reminder application. The  application actually contains lot of knowledge for human to be more concern about our environmental  problems, there also has another features that obviously advantageous for protecting our earth. We know  it will not that easy, but we still want to try to make a movement for a better day in our earth. At first,  our team went through a three days training with the application designer and also programmer to search  our assumptions for the confirming or the disconfirming data. We have learnt more theory of ways to  brainstorm ourselves to find the ideas for the application and also make the prototype to be tested and  represented. Next, we went through six workshops to practically processing the ideas until become a  really great prototype that finally ready to be presented. These two sessions occurred within in less than

three-week timeframe. This tested our assumption that our prioritization of tasks was the main cause of  our workflow challenge.

Insight & Approach

In the end, thanks for this insightful course and the design thinking tools. This worked really

well because my team really need to do lots of experiment just like what the course have told us. Our  team had finally identified the problems and assumptions, then we finally designed launches to test the  assumptions. We also tried to optimize our workflow so we could anticipated bad results and expected  to find more agile ways in our process.

Personally, before I join this course, I am a person with fixed mindset and little creativity. After

joining this course, I have got lot of knowledge to brainstorm my ideas using the tools that the course  have explained. Especially, in this learning launch tool, I am so impressed with how experiments could  really mean a lot for the better changes of our environment. Now I can prepare ahead and think of  another obstacles to overcome in another project with learning lauch tools which will assist me in  presenting my ideas and best illuminate them.

