The Deep Dive Video Response Questions

"The Deep Dive" Video Response Questions 1. “From the buildings in which we live and work, to the cars we drive, or the knives and forks with which we eat, everything we use was designed to create some sort of marriage between form and function 2. The folks at IDEO state that they are not experts in any given area. But, they do claim to be experts on the process of how you design stuff (the design process), which they apply to the innovation of consumer products. 3. After the team of designers is brought together, told the problem, and informed they have five days to “pull it off,” the team began ASAP step 1: Define the Problem & step 2: Generate Concepts/B.S. (Brain Storm) for their solution. 4. Give two examples of what the team members did during these first two phases a. They would sketch/draw pictures of their designs b. They would vote on certain drawings (like what is the best) 5. List five rules-of-thumb that IDEO employees follow when they share ideas during the brainstorming phase: a. defer judgement b. one conversation at a time c. stay focused on topic d. encourage wild ideas e. build on the ideas of others 6. Wild (and sometimes crazy) ideas should be entertained during the brainstorming phase because they give a point to go off of to encourage more realistic, but even better ideas. 7. After the brainstorming phase was over, the team narrowed down the hundreds of ideas by voting for those ideas that were not only “cool” but also able to build in a short period of time. This phase of the design process is this called step #3 – Develop a Solution. 8. IDEO believes that the ideas and efforts of a group will always be more successful than the planning of a lone genius. 9. Once the ideas were narrowed down and divided into categories, the group was split into four smaller teams, each of these groups being responsible for step 5 of the Design Process - Build & Test a Prototype. 10. The leaders at IDEO believe that playful behavior and a fun environment are two important reasons why their employees are able to think quickly and creatively to produce innovative results. 11. Sometimes, people come up with great solutions that work by trying their ideas first, and asking for forgiveness later. 12. Design is often a process of going too far and having to take a few steps back. This phase of the design process - the critique of the four mock-ups - comes under step 5 of the Design Process, Evaluate the Solution. 13. Upon critique of the four teams’ models, it was obvious that none of the teams had developed an optimum solution. However, the people at IDEO believe that it is important to fail often in order to succeed sooner. 14. What percentage of the entire weeks’ time did it take to fabricate the final prototype? _____ % (Hint: It took 24 hours – 1 day - to build the prototype. The Design team was given a total of 5 days to complete the project. One day divided by 5 days equals a decimal number less than one and greater that zero. Multiply that number by 100 to move the decimal point to the right two places to give you the correct percentage – what is it?) 15. Instead of showering his design team with a tremendous amount of praise, the boss required his employees to get out the do the 6th step of the design process – Present the Solution – the design team took their prototype to Whole Foods for feedback. 16. Of all the things that we are surrounded by every day, what has not been placed through the design process are the things found in nature (like trees). Nature has not been placed through a human design process.