Challenge and selection

Throughout my life as a student I have used tools such as mind mapping, QFD, and the CANVAS  method. At this stage of my career as a specialty mechanical designer, I will carry out a project  that must first be designed through ideas, several sketches, design proposals from several  colleagues taking all this to make a sketch of the prototype (Go Kart ) in a design software and in  the end have the physical prototype in real life. He used the tool to launch a project that will be  carried out with a proposal of 4 members of a team, based on some questions, key elements,  ideas and hypotheses and relationships between elements to consider for the client in this case  our Professor approve our project, you like our final project.

Application .

I begin the process by creating a graph of QFD, a quality management method, based on  transforming user demands (teacher) into design quality. To perform the QFD I will use a list of  questions, a survey and look for confirmation data, as existing material I can use existing go kart  sketch, 3d suspension modeling, address and the type of material that will be used, the CANVAS  method. All this to see if it is worth continuing with the proposed idea.

In this situation the CANVAS method occupies this method helps to reinforce the learning launch.  This model is a set of rectangles. The middle part has the value proposition together with  Customer Segments, a box on the left to identify key resources and key activities.

With the information obtained, the sketch will be done in a design software, in this case I will use  CATIA V5.

For the activity, each team member will make a freehand drawing of the design of a Go Kart  already finished, with chassis, suspension, steering, braking, tires.

I give you several questions to answer or think about, such as:

What must be true for your idea to be good?

How do you look for these confirmatory facts?

Why the idea?

Under what circumstances will it be a bad idea?

Under what circumstances will the idea not be appropriate by the teacher?

We have approximately 30 min. To discuss the questions to mark or write the error in the  freehand drawing, and then we mark additional ideas that come from the discussion.

Now another thing that is key is that we are all partial, we all see different things, therefore, we  have to share and collaborate. At the end the drawing is made in the CATIA V5 program and with  the final design of our Go Kart.

Insight and approach

What I learned when doing this exercise with 4 partners is that if in the end our project does not  work it should not harm my career, at the end of the account all the ideas are not good, a learning  launch is not a failure as long as you learn something , ideas are abundant, do not stay with an  idea, there will always be more ideas.

It is important to solve your assumptions, your hypothesis, your idea, product or service. Since a  learning launch is a search for the truth as well as a measure that advances life in general, the  measure that one can always do and the most important is WHAT IS NOT? Because with this  question we can discover what we need to learn to achieve our goal.


Challenge and selection Throughout my life as a student I have used tools such as mind mapping , QFD , and the CANVAS method . At this stage of my career as a specialty mechanical designer , I will carry out a project that must first be designed through ideas , several sketches , design proposals from several colleagues taking all this to make a sketch of the prototype ( Go Kart ) in a design software and in the end have the physical prototype in real life . He used the tool to launch a project that will be carried out with a proposal of 4 members of a team , based on some questions , key elements , ideas and hypotheses and relationships between elements to consider for the client in this case our Professor approve our project , you like our final project . Application . I begin the process by creating a graph of QFD , a quality management method , based on transforming user demands ( teacher ) into design quality . To perform the QFD I will use a list of questions , a survey and look for confirmation data , as existing material I can use existing go kart sketch , 3d suspension modeling , address and the type of material that will be used , the CANVAS method . All this to see if it is worth continuing with the proposed idea . In this situation the CANVAS method occupies this method helps to reinforce the learning launch . This model is a set of rectangles . The middle part has the value proposition together with Customer Segments , a box on the left to identify key resources and key activities . With the information obtained , the sketch will be done in a design software , in this case I will use CATIA V5 . For the activity , each team member will make a freehand drawing of the design of a Go Kart already finished , with chassis , suspension , steering , braking , tires . I give you several questions to answer or think about , such as : What must be true for your idea to be good ? How do you look for these confirmatory facts ? Why the idea ? Under what circumstances will it be a bad idea ? Under what circumstances will the idea not be appropriate by the teacher ? We have approximately 30 min . To discuss the questions to mark or write the error in the freehand drawing , and then we mark additional ideas that come from the discussion . Now another thing that is key is that we are all partial , we all see different things , therefore , we have to share and collaborate . At the end the drawing is made in the CATIA V5 program and with the final design of our Go Kart . Insight and approach What I learned when doing this exercise with 4 partners is that if in the end our project does not work it should not harm my career , at the end of the account all the ideas are not good , a learning launch is not a failure as long as you learn something , ideas are abundant , do not stay with an idea , there will always be more ideas . It is important to solve your assumptions , your hypothesis , your idea , product or service . Since a learning launch is a search for the truth as well as a measure that advances life in general , the measure that one can always do and the most important is WHAT IS NOT ? Because with this question we can discover what we need to learn to achieve our goal .