Tina Peralta - Reflection: Story Telling

Challenge and Selection

Storytelling is a great tool for conveying a message to people such that it has a broad purpose. It is a way  wherein you can deliver your message with clear understanding without compromising the purpose of your  idea. I became interested in storytelling because as an electronics engineering student, I am so exposed in  electronics system and technical illustrations. When I want to persuade someone to buy my product, it will  be hard by just explaining the technical side.

In  reality, making  a  finished  product  or  invention  is  not  enough  to  persuade people to use that as a  solution to the problem. Sometimes it’s hard to explain that it is the only solution for their problem.  Storytelling is a very good technique to solve this problem. I’m lucky that I was able to learn this in one of  the discussions in Design Thinking for Innovation. We must know how to tell a very good story about our  generated ideas. By that, we can get our own ideas absorbed to the market. It is hard for me to relay my  works to others as an engineering student but now I’ve able to learn a technique to make everything  simple.

Application

In design thinking, storytelling is a submissive learning. I start the process by answering the questions  which are:  What, Why, and How? Then I will  research  all  the  related  discussions to  the  problem  that  I   want  to  solve. It is a good start to know everything about your study. The way of a person on how can his  or her device work without addressing their different terminologies that other could adopt or understanding  process of work and service is very essential because people are composed of different professions or  standards in life.

We all have different jargons so not everyone can understand each other unless you will create an analogy  which is a technique for a better understanding. In doing my research, the insights that I will gather can  lead me to have an establishment on my design criteria. This would help me to make a good story for my  product when I am already introducing it to others. There are instances when I am talking about my projects  to my friends, they were not that interested because of the technicalities that I am sharing to them. By the  storytelling, I will now focus on creating good stories that will help me implement my work to others.

Insight and Approach

I  can  easily  expressed  my  ideas  in  a  good  manner  and  in a  very  persuasive  way through  storytelling.  Not everyone can be convinced in the item you were presenting unless you have a  technique to literally catch their attention. As what I can observe, Filipinos love stories. When you are  telling stories, especially the interesting ones, you can see to their face their interest for it. We must also   consider  not  just  the insight of what we researched but also the insights of the consumers.

When we know the needs of the people, they will be interested if we ask them that what we are saying  is the solution for their specific problem. We can easily adopt on how people interprets his idea. If it is

something interesting, people will attentively listen to you. We must consider the needs of the  consumers for us to  hit  the  most  interested  solution  to  the  problem  that  we  want  to  solve.  Searching for a specific idea will not be hard anymore because just by looking on the problems at our  society, we can think of many. Answering the need of people in the society will be something interesting  for them and you can create good stories out of that.

