Group memebers: Gabriel, Gabriela, Robin
Framework: Commercial
Agenda: Communication
Goal: Emotional
Our group has designed a bracelet with LED lights for events. The goal of the product is to help people engage in conversations with people they don’t know. It will be bought by event organizers who distribute it to their participants at events. The event organizers can decide how the colors will show on the bracelets. E.g. based on participants’ interests, jobs, personalities or other attributes which the participants have informed the event organizers about prior to the event as they register to participate. The event organizers can control the color throughout the event and create continued socializing opportunities.
Inspiration:
We got the inspiration from NYUSHs Admitted Student Weekend and Candidate Weekend. We, as student group leaders, wear different colored name tags. We realized that the participants would unconsciously seek out people whose name tags had the same colors. In our case, we use LED color as a trigger for event participants to find together and group up, even if they have not met before.
Process:
Our process has been characterized by long, in-depth and iterative conversations and discussions. We each have our own ideas and opinions that we needed to find a middle path for that we all could see a purpose with. Ultimately, we were able to combine aspects of our ideas into a concrete product that we can all stand behind. To me, it was a really good team work process because we were able to listen together and overcome our differences and find a way forward together. We divided responsibilities so each person would make a draft version of different aspects of project before we met again to give each other feedback before we brought everything together into one project presentation.
Reflection:
The way we worked through discussion and listening to each other was a good experience because we all ended up sharing responsibility whereas many group projects end up being unevenly balanced. So it shows the importance of involving everyone and getting everyone to feel ownership. One place I think we could have done better that became clear to me in the classroom as we got feedback after our presentation was that the video should have been more like a commercial than just a video showing the product. Because our product, after all, is a commercial project.