Reflection – Visualization

Challenge

We established a new student club at our university. This student club is about electronic  music production and DJ performance. However, since there is a new club, there were not  many people who wanted to join the club, people were only attending the events we  organized. When we say electronic music and performance, we could not attract the attention  of people dealing with different areas of music (such as vocals). However, our friends who  produce music needed vocals to complete their music. Anyone who makes music can help  each other. In short, we had a hard time attracting people interested in music. As the board of  directors, we were holding meetings and taking notes. To attract attention, we wanted to  produce creative content and present it to people in small events. Our team consisted of  people with knowledge and experience from different fields. The content designs that we  portrayed after listening to each other were very different, so no one was satisfied with the  exact result. It took us a very long time to make a common decision and try it, and we are  students next to it and have responsibilities that we have to fulfill.

Selection

We needed to create a common understanding so that people in the team could both easily get  an idea of the design and do it in less time. For this, we decided to visualize our thoughts. As  stated by Rizan Rizvi visualization consists of equal parts of listening, thinking, and drawing.  Listening is the input, thinking is the processing and drawing is the output. These three skills  work together equally in understanding complexity, visualizing outcomes to create new  possibilities.

Application

Everyone in the team received a huge paper and colored pencils. Everyone has visualized the  feature of his mind design with his symbols. We have visualized what can be done to attract  people from different areas of music to our club. At the stage of presenting the idea, everyone  took the paper on which he was drawing and made his presentation on this paper. We  understood the ideas produced in this way more concretely. We understood the sides we liked  and did not like in a shorter time and were able to intervene. Instead of writing, we mobilized  our thoughts in different colors in a fun way. We quickly took action to create the content by  deciding what we liked.

Insight & Approach

Visualization is a core component of the way that we communicate, whether we're aware of it  or not. We need to strengthen our ability to capture and organize complex ideas. We need  more clarity. We need a more shared understanding. We need more simplicity. Solving

problems depends on other people that can understand you and align their ideas with yours.  Visualization has been a great way to provide this common understanding. It was really  helpful to get out of the stereotyped methods and use a design thinking tool. Most of the time,  we realized that we thought we understood each other, but we did not. However, we need to  be able to ask really good questions to find better solutions, and when we make an idea  tangible, we have concluded that we are asking more questions to take it a step further.

I realized that Visualization is a very good tool in creating a common perception and I  realized how important design thinking tools are. Next time, I will put more of the things I  learned from this lecture into practice. I will also explore and implement different tools that  can be useful for visualization.

