Storytelling

Challenge & Selection

I love stories. They are very different, interesting and even useful for us  especially. The reason why I choose this kind of tool in Design Thinking course  depends on real situations from everyday life of computer science's students.  Details about our case will written further. Also any application is based on  human's needing and I think that right way to know all about people lives is  storytelling. Social networking, communication process are basic tool from  even ancient time. Only after dialog with someone we can know matter things  about him, which were hidden in another time. So, that is why my choice in  reflection is storytelling.

Application & Insight

Each semester we have to protect one software project with unique idea and  real application. Honestly, it becomes harder and harder to create something  new when lots of people trying to do same thing. And while our team was  thinking about it and looking for new one, one of us told a true story from  summer holiday. Our friend had a trip in southern region of our country and of  course bought presents for family. In this list she had a honey, five kilograms. I  need to mention that she was with her mother. They were waiting for flight  when knew that honey is prohibited in airplane. And in panic they started for  looking ways of delivery of their product. Going to post is long and complicated,  going to train station sounds good but can they really find a person who can  take responsibility. And, then she thought it will be very cool if we will have a  platform where people can easily connect with each other and by that can  deliver some goods, of course, for money. So, by her storytelling we all inspired  to create this platform as online application.

Approach & Organization

Nowadays, we still keep working on that project. And may be its mission not so  gigantic but anyway if even one person can feel calmly and save their nerves  because of us it will be best achievement for us. It will work very simply. Two  person: sender and deliver, both of them should choose destinations( from  where to where and in which date), then sender will fill blank with description  of product and deliver can choose it. But also we want to add chat because of  few moments which need peer discussion. Hope  that can see this application  soon.

Additional Feedback

If you have results today, it is because of storytelling in the beginning of  process. All ideas and insight become to us after some difficult, emergency  situations where we did not have any useful tool for solving the problem. And

for remembering these situations we need to communicate and be open for  storytelling.

