In no specific order: Prototyping Lemme tell ya, colored pencils and Play-Doh really brought me back to elementary school. Plus, learning a new method of interviewing really helped me create a good prototype for my partner. This day of hands-on learning was so much fun! Period Panties Learning everything there is to know about Thinx […]

The overall outcome of my team’s evaluation phase was very rewarding. With many late nights, team debates and strenuous hours deciding how we could best improve Hershey’s, preparation for the Evaluation phase wasn’t easy. However, our hard work was rewarded with great amounts of feedback, the majority of which was positive. We now have a […]

My personal experience of prototyping for preparation for our LP Audit of Hershey’s has been very different from the class’s prototyping seminar earlier this semester. The latter was held under an extreme time crunch, making it rather hectic to assemble a quality prototype. However, my more recent experience has been a very drawn out, long-term […]

The top 5 lessons I learned throughout the Ideation process are as follows: Humor, thanks to the pink sticky notes, helped me brainstorm. Prior to the pink stickies, I considered myself fresh out of ideas. However, after sharing a few laughs, I was surprised that I was able to throw several more yellow post-its up. […]

My group made great strides during our “Defining” session. Throughout the experience, I didn’t notice many new content or ideologies. Our team has worked hard on our persona, and the whiteboard/sticky note environment was quite familiar to the class. However, combining the two familiarities was challenging. For me, I had much more trouble brainstorming ideas that […]

I think the Cradle to Cradle framework is the “best” because Principles 2) and 4) of it’s four main principles offered me perspectives on recyclability that I’d never considered before. Principle 2) “Waste equals Food.” Applying natural processes that have been perfected over thousands of years of evolution to immediate human methodologies seems astounding to […]

For this blog post, I analyzed the transcript of Brent’s interview to see if I could relate to anything he threw out there. This interview was incredible. Nearly everything Brent shared connected perfectly to either of our two lectures on Sustainability & Consumption and Consumer Wisdom. What stuck out most to me was a concept […]

From our class discussion last Tuesday, three things really surprised me about Corporations. Nearly a week later, they seem to have found a nearly permanent place within my memory. The first surprise came relatively early class. We were nearing the end of our topic on 17th/18th century “Chartered Corporations” when Professor Luchs revealed that the […]

Several months ago, my uncle found himself in a predicament that nagged at both ends of his Personal and Collective spectrum of Well-Being. For nearly four years, he enjoyed time spent behind the wheel of his Volkswagen Jetta TDI. Not only was the car fuel efficient, but it’s powerful engine and 5 speed manual transmission […]

Our bootcamp was my introduction to the concept of Design Thinking. It was a completely foreign concept to me, and my initial guesses on what it could have been be were completely wrong. Upon hearing the name Design Thinking, I immediately predicted our end goal would be something fixed to finite concepts like graphic design or […]