Learning Launch

Challenge

I am currently starting my senior year in faculty of engineering. My team is supposed to design and  implement a graduation project under supervision of professors. The project our team has chosen is to  build a reliable Learning Management System special for visually impaired people to help them engage  in the education process in more interesting way using Voice Recognition and text to voice technologies.  We have collected many resources and data. We have been working on to produce a prototype to get a  feedback and start improving our product. The project is not limited to budget, no hardware is used but  mainly limited to 6 month of work including holidays and exam weeks.

Selection

Our team has already gone through some tools to settle the criteria and main goals of the project we  should go through and evaluate or prototype against them. Now, we need to start making an  experiment (Learning Launch Tool) to measure how close we are from achieving the criteria we agreed  on based on the data collected in What is? Process according to Design Thinking Approach. Learning  Launch is pretty helpful as it doesn`t consume a lot of time and we can gather a lot of information  through it without spending a lot of money.

Application

For our first learning launch, we focused on the main features of the project rather than the user  interface and the user experience. We wanted to make sure the main functionality of the project is  working, reliable and quick responsive to user requests and pressure on the server. This tested our logic  and algorithms responsive speed and workflow. We figured out that we need to improve the algorithms  to let the project be more robust against many user requests at a time, we organized 2 meetings a week  to discuss this feedback from our first learning launch and also to start thinking of the second learning  launch which will include the algorithm improvement and some more features (such as UI and UX).

Insight

By applying the learning launch tool, our team could show the professor that supervise our project the  functionality of the product and the feedback from the users. By using Learning Launch tool, the  professor could easily add his recommendations and imporvments according to the provided data and  feedback from the first learning launch, so in the upcoming learning launch (agile approach), it will be  more satisfying and robust.

Approach

Given that our team has gone through several stages of design thinking with different design tools, such  as mind mapping to find patterns and criteria through data, visualization to explain our project idea in  more understandable way to everyone not just the ones in the area of expertise. Coming to Learning  Launch Tool which provided us with sufficient and useful data to improve our product and gave us the  insight to the future. It helped shaping our product in a way to give the best solution and value for the  targeted people (visually impaired).

Thank you!

While writing this submission I was inspired by our team`s idea for helping visually impaired people, and  also watching Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, it gives me hope and motivation !


Learning Launch Challenge I am currently starting my senior year in faculty of engineering . My team is supposed to design and implement a graduation project under supervision of professors . The project our team has chosen is to build a reliable Learning Management System special for visually impaired people to help them engage in the education process in more interesting way using Voice Recognition and text to voice technologies . We have collected many resources and data . We have been working on to produce a prototype to get a feedback and start improving our product . The project is not limited to budget , no hardware is used but mainly limited to 6 month of work including holidays and exam weeks . Selection Our team has already gone through some tools to settle the criteria and main goals of the project we should go through and evaluate or prototype against them . Now , we need to start making an experiment ( Learning Launch Tool ) to measure how close we are from achieving the criteria we agreed on based on the data collected in What is ? Process according to Design Thinking Approach . Learning Launch is pretty helpful as it doesn`t consume a lot of time and we can gather a lot of information through it without spending a lot of money . Application For our first learning launch , we focused on the main features of the project rather than the user interface and the user experience . We wanted to make sure the main functionality of the project is working , reliable and quick responsive to user requests and pressure on the server . This tested our logic and algorithms responsive speed and workflow . We figured out that we need to improve the algorithms to let the project be more robust against many user requests at a time , we organized 2 meetings a week to discuss this feedback from our first learning launch and also to start thinking of the second learning launch which will include the algorithm improvement and some more features ( such as UI and UX ) . Insight By applying the learning launch tool , our team could show the professor that supervise our project the functionality of the product and the feedback from the users . By using Learning Launch tool , the professor could easily add his recommendations and imporvments according to the provided data and feedback from the first learning launch , so in the upcoming learning launch ( agile approach ) , it will be more satisfying and robust . Approach Given that our team has gone through several stages of design thinking with different design tools , such as mind mapping to find patterns and criteria through data , visualization to explain our project idea in more understandable way to everyone not just the ones in the area of expertise . Coming to Learning Launch Tool which provided us with sufficient and useful data to improve our product and gave us the insight to the future . It helped shaping our product in a way to give the best solution and value for the targeted people ( visually impaired ) . Thank you ! While writing this submission I was inspired by our team`s idea for helping visually impaired people , and also watching Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games , it gives me hope and motivation !