DtM Begins CMES Data Reduction Process With Help From IDEO
DtM met today with Mekayla Beaver and Kate Schreiber of IDEO to map out the process for transitioning from the CMES field study, during which team members collected massive amounts of information regarding CMES' needs, to the brainstorming process and eventually the generation of design concepts. Mekayla, who travelled to Bangladesh with Adam French and Timothy Prestero as a member of the field study team, and Kate both have extensive experience in bringing design projects from the starting stages of needs assessment to the final stages of product implementation.
As a first step in the process, Kate led Mekayla and Tim through a storytelling exercise in which the two discussed their experiences and categorized them into a logical framework for analysis, using pictures from the trip as prompts. As different categories of information emerged throughout the discussion, each category was mapped out visually and matched up with relevant trip pictures. By the end of the afternoon, they had created a board-filling web of ideas, packed with photos, note cards, and post-its, describing various aspects of the team's experience at CMES.
Mekayla Beaver (left) and Kate Schreiber (right) of IDEO working with DtM to generate "actionable" intelligence from the Bangladesh field study data
Making sense of it all
A lot of work remains to be done before DtM can move the CMES project into the brainstorming stage. In the coming weeks, the team will explore each category of information in greater detail, create various frameworks for examining the data, and eventually develop strategies for approaching brainstorming sessions based upon these frameworks.
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