Week 5 Class 2

Today's class was really beneficial for me personally, because before going into it, the whole concept of going to do interviews to gain empathy was pretty daunting and I was feeling pretty nervous about it.

Since me and Georgia have the same target audience as Sophie and Hayley, we decided that it would be helpful to collaborate in the first research and empathy part of the project. We began applying the ideo concepts to think how we can go about gaining empathy, and started thinking of questions for a survey or an interview, however I feel as though we need to make some of the questions a bit more specific, such as instead of ' how many hours a week do you work over time?' maybe something like ' 'in the last month, how often have you stayed at your desk during break time?' and 'how often have you stayed after the finishing hours of 5pm(or whatever it is)?'

However the exercise that we did to solve the problem of students putting bags on desks was really cool because we all came up with some actually good ideas, it gave me confidence that applying this to our briefs can actually create something that's genuinely useful

Over the break I am planning to start to find out where and who would be available for us to conduct an interview/s, gather secondary research and plan some times that we could do no tech nights or maybe even a 9-5 work day some how or conduct some of the observations. Maybe skipping a break at work or something but I'm not that keen to do that as it is against the law and my boss would get angry...