Pink* and the Design Process, Part V
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Imagining the Possibilities
4:00p - 5:30p
This is what we do best.
And it all happened quite organically. Students returned with sticky notes full of fresh ideas for how to improve Career Center resources and aspects of the Confluence experience, ideas that were still valuable despite our decision to deliberately focus on the creation of a new service.
One suggested looking at online dating as a model for job search services. One suggested leveraging relationships with alumni. And students passing by our booth had brainstorming sessions of their own; I jumped in on one where a senior designer and junior engineer discussed a concept that enabled students to attend job conferences in a virtual environment a la Second Life and the Sims.
We tend to give ourselves plenty of time to draw from our inspirations and influences, reserving judgement until we’ve exhausted our imaginations. Ultimately we saw great potential in an idea based on the concept of a “field trip”. Remember those?
After validating the concept with a senior design student, we shifted our focus to flushing out the details and developing a model to illustrate how the service would work.
