222454 Hannah Christensen VCD Research Project

I was still struggling to decide what to make for my project so I conducted a survey to ask my audience as this is a very user-focused project. I needed to find out what they needed most and what was most useful to them in the most accessible form.  From my survey, it is clear saving and budgeting is the most important aspect of personal finance young adults need help with. I am still unsure which medium I want to use but for the moment I need to focus on the content that is needed. I decided to write out all my ideas I have on a large piece of paper because narrowing down such a huge topic is hard and what I want to make is hard to decide. My two favorite ideas are creating an app or redesigning a financial literacy text book. I created two mood boards to show these ideas. I got a bit lost with where my direction was heading and got very caught up in the research side of my project. I decided to have a long hard think about what that small nugget ...

I have been struggling to decide what to make for my major project. I decided to do some ideation techniques to come up with some creative solutions. Brainstorm: Random links, I picked random items and forced a connection with my problem to create new opportunities and ideas.  A Mash-up brings odd or unexpected things together to spark fresh ideas through 2 unrelated broad categories.  I  Combined items from the two lists to ideate as many new products, services or experiences as possible. 20 ideas in 20 minutes 1. You only had $10 dollars to make it? (cost) 2. You had to wear your response? (materiality, performance) 3. It had to be inside a shipping container? (space)   4. The whole digital world collapsed and there could be no digital component? (materiality) 5. It needed three different touch-points to communicate the one message? (narrative) 6. The target audience was 5 year olds? (audience) 7. The primary colo...