— Design Thinking Process (Pt 1)

1. Discovery
2. Interpretation
3. Ideation

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Discovery 

Attempting to understand what I was challenging, I thought of problem areas of interest to me that I wanted to solve for.

Interpretation

Searching for meaning within the problem areas, involved some conduction of qualitative research. I began with a general question, What are your thoughts on doing things alone? and gathered insights from multiple perspectives

Framing opportunities within my findings to further generate into potential solutions

Ideation 
Beginning to explore potential solutions and use cases

— Edify

Edifying is an instructive or informative way that improves the mind or character. The act of continuously improving one self.

I felt ‘Edified Self’ was an appropriate title that embodied all the attributes of what I hope an individual will take away from my future findings and potential solution.

— What are you going to obsess about over the next 4-6 months?

On a Tuesday afternoon, I started to think more deeply about where I was going with my thesis project. This was going to be something I’d be dedicating a majority of my time towards and although I felt settled on some research I conducted throughout the past summer, I began to revaluate my goals.

My initial thesis focus was more centred within improving an existing product, though it was something I loved and gathered a lot of insight on throughout my time in the bay area — I felt the need to challenge myself a little more towards researching something more impactful and set it aside as a side project.

For the next few months, I wanted to fully commit my time towards something more fulfilling and necessary within our daily lives. I am now focusing on the area of self discovery, connection between mental and physical health and self care. I really want to define what self discovery can mean and encourage the importance of this concept. This was both of personal interest and equal opportunity for myself to grow personally in having an overall better understanding over.

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Above are images I took of a personal time of self reflection, directly after I made the decision to change my thesis direction.

I love being by water because of how healing it feels. I think it’s important to take breaks, during good weather I always try to go for a walk by the Lakeshore then find myself a picnic table to write for a good couple of minutes. It really helps when I find time to write my thoughts out versus over thinking it all in my head.

Next steps: understanding additional methods of self reflection

— Thesis Topic Change

My weekly rambles to my best friend

— Thesis

This is my space to document my personal thesis findings within the area of self discovery and an attempt to structure my thought process.

I chose to use WordPress as a platform for more organic posting bursts and to freely showcase a variety of different mediums. I’ll look to publishing in a more formalized format on Medium or my personal portfolio for more stand out research documents.

Follow along my process blog of sketches, inspiration, ramblings and more. If you’d like to learn more or contribute to my research, I’m always open to collaborating – feel free to e-mail me or send me a direct message.