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Just a grad student showcasing their ideation and prototyping process for various projects within NYU's Ideation & Prototyping course.
Week 1: Forming the Team and Brainstorming Ideas When we were initially tasked with addressing various problems within NYU or other communities through ideating and prototyping a solution, three of my peers and I formed a design team. We had decided to create our topic to address and had thought of a few separate ideas that would pertain to the NYU community. We made a Google document and individually contributed…
Planning In part 2 of this time capsule assignment, I wanted to make a box that had seven openings for the seven items I planning on putting in my time capsule. I began by measuring the dimensions of each item and deciding how I wanted these openings to be arranged and what size each of them should be for my items. My plan was to use an epilogue laser cutter…
Feeling Nostalgic While brainstorming for this exercise, I wanted to choose items that not only represent important and personal memories to me, but I also wanted to choose objects/artifacts that reflect certain social and technological changes that occured while these items came into circulation. At first glance, this seems easy to pick objects that hold meaning, but I actually found it a bit difficult to narrow my options down. I…
Inspiration When thinking of what to design, I thought about creating a puzzle. I think from a design standpoint, puzzles are a great way to both exercise your mind and at the same time relieve stress. I often get targeted ads on various forms of social media advertising merge games, matching games, memory games etc. so I began to look more critically at the ads that would appear and was…
For this design and prototyping exercise, I thought about prototyping a bird following a discussion with a friend about her pet cockatiels. I designed a prototype of a parrot called the Lilacine Amazon parrot. These parrots inhabit various tropical rainforests within six areas in south Ecuador. They hunt for food in pairs during the day and communally roost in the tree-tops at night. Unfortunately, they are critically endangered due to…
After reading the articles “The Miseducation of the Doodle” by Sunni Brown and “Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool by Mike Rohde,” I reflected on how I initially associated sketching with the idea that it had to be perfect to convey an idea properly. I can fairly say that I am somewhat self-conscious when creating figurative art, especially something based on realism, and I know how important it is to…
Ideation and Prototyping: A Reflection on Creation and Design 