VISUALIZATION

Challange and selection

The tool I would like to select would be the visualisation tool. Visualization basically means imagining things and then bring those ideas in front of the customers in a way that they get the clear idea about it. I believe, visualization is one of the most important tools for design thinking. Visualization not necessarily mean we all need to be artists. Everyody can imagine things in a very creative way. We can imagine the things that are not yet the reality but we can make them the reality by visualizing the things properly and bringing the right ideas to the customers or the stakeholders. I can use different things to deliver my visualized idea to the customers/stake holders. For example i can be using photographs, power point presentations with different symbols, colors, etc. Or i can be using sketches too. Visualisation is a powerful tool since there is no limitation as to what we are capable of imagining and visualizing and we can use many creative ways to deliver those ideas to people. Today, as we are all aware that the world is facing one of the biggest challanges of all the decades, the "covid 19 pandemic". I would like to use the visualization tool to try and find a solution to fight the pandemic.

Application

I would like to start the process by firstly visualising the ways or ideas through which I can help people fighting this pandemic. One of the solutions could be to create certain drones that are specifically designed to carry some basic medications, grocery items and so on to deliver them to the people to their homes without any human intervention. Since that we all are aware that the whole nation is in the lockdown and many of the poor people are finding it very hard to get their basic things needed for everyday living. And also it is highly necessary that people maintain social distancing for this pandemic to get away as soon as possible. So one can use these drones to deliver the basic necessary items door to door and that way people can stay at their homes. I would like to start the process by going step by step asking questions that were mentioned in the introduction part of the course. I shall start with what if? I look completely into the present reality and analize the things and collect the data. Like what are the things that people need the most right now and it is getting hard for them to get it. For example there is a high shortage of hand sanitizers and face masks. I shall think of various ideas as to how can these things be made easily available to people especially those living in village areas. I can go and talk to a particual small scale industry and ask them to produce the sanitizers and masks just for the drones to deliver to needy people. Or I could try and contact the start government and ask them for the supply. Moving on to what if? I shall take all the ideas and collectively call them concepts and make them ready for the next stage that is what wows? I can consider all the concepts and ask as though why is that particular concept the best idea for the solution to this pandemic. I would like to go through the government since that would be the easiest and most supportive since that I might or might not get approval by any industry to produce things particular for the drones to deliver.

Once I get connected to the government i would like to go on with the drone designs and deliver them to the government people in a manner they can understand it properly. I can first start by making various sketches of the designs by collecting the ideas using various internet sources and make use of the photographs of the already existing drones. Taking the inspiration from the "Good kitchen story", I believe that just creating the drones alone directly would not get to the root of the solution. As they started by first doing the journey mapping, I shall first have make a group of people who are willing to support and go home to home in certain villages and ask about their genuine problems and needs and list them out. They shall also be having an emotional low feeling to get free assistance from the government organisations. So we shall also make sure that they don't feel that way by telling them it is okay to get assistance since the whole world is in a trouble right now and not just them. Design thinking is all about considering both emotional connection and functioning and that is what makes it different from the analytical thinking, which does not include considering the emotional connection. So once we have done that we need to get the information from the government as to how much of material they can provide to make the drones and what shall be the budget since the country is also facing high economical and financial crisis. Hence we are considering both, citizens who are to getting the assistance, and the government who are to provide the materials for assistance. Once we are all set with this. I could choose the proper design of the drone considering the various factors such as its load capacity and the items it is going to deliver and the distance it has to travel and the number of drones that we would need so that we can reach as many people as we can and so on. After the proper design is approved I could as well make use of 3d designing tools to make the 3d model of the prototype and then shall move to the actual manufacturing of the prototype. Once the drones are ready and all the materials that need to be transported are ready from the government we shall proceed to deliver them to the needy people and that way it can be a huge relief to the people and they shall peacefully stay at their homes and maintain the social distancing untill the pandemic is gone.

Insight and approach

The things I have learnt from the exersice is how important it is to go step by step patiently to get to the root of solution and have it working properly. Some of the organizations might just skip certain things like brainstorming or journey mapping and it creates a gap between the ones who are providing and the ones who are receiving the help that might lead to various problems such as the citizens might not get fully satisfied with the service. So it is necessary not to skip any of the Steps. The drones, hence, that are built shall continue to deliver the items to various people without any actual human to go out and do the work and can stay safe in their homes. I also get to know about some of the governmental organizations and how they work and interacting with people to know their needs properly will improve the communications skills too. So hence the visualisation tool has found to be very helpful in design thinking to solve such big problems the people are facing.

I would like to use the visualization tool further for many such social problems people are facing, the kind of problems that are human centres. I would like to go with the same tool but in different ways and ideas like using a different approach. I shall not go through the government but shall go through any industrial organizations or work independently entirely. I would choose the same tool since I feel that the process of design thinking basically should start from imagining and visualize the things that do not yet exist in reality but shall be implemented in future by working on it. We get more creative and can unlock the specific part of our brain that is dedicated to creative thinking as well. All these factors would make me reconsider the visualisation tool all over again for the further problems that could be solved using deign thinking.

