End of the Semester Reflection

There is no part of the design thinking process I dislike more than the interviewing stage (called Empathy on my school's model). This is ironic, of course, because it becomes very difficult to do the rest of the process without this step and defeats the purpose of the process in general. I have long been …

The Outdoor Classrooms

To start the year and ease us back into design briefs, the Innovation Diploma facilitators gave us a design brief for our school. We were to increase traffic and awareness of the outdoor classrooms behind the school. The result would hopefully prove to people that you can learn outside of a classroom and it doesn't …

Interviews and Insights

There's a project I've been working on for a few months now that I haven't written about yet because of many reasons, but mainly because I was having a hard time finding the words. Right now in Innovation Diploma, we're working with the developing company S.J. Collins enterprises to design an outdoor space in their new …