Q/A:
1. Why would a designer research the history of a product they wish to innovate?
When it comes to innovation, a designer needs to understand the product and know exactly how it works in order to enhance it. By learning a product's history, the designer can gain insight on, possibly, past innovations, and using the information they gathered by those products, determine what needs to be improved.
2. What interested you in your product?
The main reason why I was interested in the microwave was because of its usage of radioactivity to safely heat up food. It's baffling to realize that we have come to a point in the generation where we can use energy that can potentially kill you to heat up our everyday meals.
3. What did you learn about working with a partner?
During this project, I learned a certain dynamic of partnership. From what I experienced, there is one person who takes the lead (me) and the other who follows (my partner). However, I found my partner constantly dawdling and, in my point of view, incapable of helping me. So I assumed the position of both leadership and the follower. My big mistake. In the end, I figured out that by taking the lead, I held the responsibility of guiding my partner, and it was my own fault if I expected nothing from him and didn't allow him to participate. To conclude this, I learned that working with a partner is beneficial only if you make it to be so.
4. How did your presentation go?
My presentation was not as smooth as I wanted it to be. One downside in doing all the work is that your partner does not know the materials as well as you do. As I comfortably went through my part of the presentation, my partner stuttered through his speech and could barely give the information that was clearly written on the slides. Like I said, not as smooth as I wanted it to be.
1. Why would a designer research the history of a product they wish to innovate?
When it comes to innovation, a designer needs to understand the product and know exactly how it works in order to enhance it. By learning a product's history, the designer can gain insight on, possibly, past innovations, and using the information they gathered by those products, determine what needs to be improved.
2. What interested you in your product?
The main reason why I was interested in the microwave was because of its usage of radioactivity to safely heat up food. It's baffling to realize that we have come to a point in the generation where we can use energy that can potentially kill you to heat up our everyday meals.
3. What did you learn about working with a partner?
During this project, I learned a certain dynamic of partnership. From what I experienced, there is one person who takes the lead (me) and the other who follows (my partner). However, I found my partner constantly dawdling and, in my point of view, incapable of helping me. So I assumed the position of both leadership and the follower. My big mistake. In the end, I figured out that by taking the lead, I held the responsibility of guiding my partner, and it was my own fault if I expected nothing from him and didn't allow him to participate. To conclude this, I learned that working with a partner is beneficial only if you make it to be so.
4. How did your presentation go?
My presentation was not as smooth as I wanted it to be. One downside in doing all the work is that your partner does not know the materials as well as you do. As I comfortably went through my part of the presentation, my partner stuttered through his speech and could barely give the information that was clearly written on the slides. Like I said, not as smooth as I wanted it to be.
- What would you do differently?
- What would you do the same?