On Friday everyone got a chance to present what they have done in their research, what insights they have gained, what ideas are starting to develop from all the insights and what they think their next steps are. It was really great to see what work everyone has done up to now, the different research methods that people have done like sending out cultural probes, shadowing various professionals and creating hashtags to see how curious people would be to find out more. There was also something nice about seeing people being honest about where they are now, that they are not sure this is the right way to go and wondering whether they should pivot towards a different angle. It shows that through research you will find some things that you are looking for and sometimes you'll come across something unexpected and realise that maybe your initial study wasn't what you thought it might be.
For my project, I got really positive feedback about the things that I've done up to now. For myself, I thought maybe next time I should try doing a digital presentation instead of having stuff up on the wall. About 3 people did digital presentations and I found them very neat, simple and clear. I've gotten very good insights from all my research so far and have ideas forming around things like navigation - which has a lot of different strands within including indoor navigation and avoiding obstacles, redesigning the cane and ATM's for the visually impaired.
My next steps are ideating around the different ideas that I currently have, doing more in depth research into those specific areas and coming up with solid ideas that I might begin to prototype and start user testing.
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