Visualization

Challenge & Selection

The tool I used was the toll of visualization,or visual thinking,to achieve a shared  understanding of a problem space amoung my friends .I use this approach aften with my  teammates and friends in solving  problems in assessments/projects. I along with my friends  use this selected tool amoung us to have a direct and clear idea of the concepts we are  thinking about.This increases our boundaries of our visions and leads to quick sharing of  ideas.

Application

I begin the process by making some concepts/straw man graphic of the problem domain the  assignment/project . We as a group project was to come up with a ‘recreational vehicle’ as a  TDP(transportation design project) where we came up with several ideas to approach this  project.

After several brainstorming and ideations, we came up with a conceptual idea but we  needed more inputs to the concepts. So we planned to use strawman graphic to get more  quick ideas from a large variety of people.

For the activity I had put up a board in a common room in my college, gathering up alot of  people like my classmates, students and my professors. I put up our concept and ideation  sketches for them to have a clear vision. Then I gave them blank sheets stuck up on the  board besides the project and proposed then to give their suggestions via straw man graphic  i.e by drawing simple shapes/pictograms to give more ideas to the concept.

Inisight & Approach

What I have learned/gained from conducting this exercise with several people is that while  graphic can incorporate a quick and good level of feedback than writing-which was really  important and gave us a really good lead to approach with this concept.

Since I discovered that the most valuable aspect is the shared insights and learning. Next  time I would use the visualisation activity as a starting point for a series  of design thinking  activities.

