Preparing to give a presentation on product design for a hackathon was the best opportunity to gain fresh perspectives on my basics.
Classic example on S.C.A.M.P.E.R. Diagram
I decided to open the presentation with a classic example of SCAMPER diagram of the design of a spoon. Design is an iterative process of idea generation and elimination. If brainstorming does the idea generation randomly by association, SCAMPER technique does it systematically. I proceeded to let the participants to get a taste of both before they dive into the hacking actions.
Stepping out of the freezing hacking space, I asked the participants to take notice that everything around us are designed. Some are designed well, some are not so.
It helped that the hacikng space is surrounded by whiteboards. Both the participants and the mentors were happy to fill them with ideas, good points, critics, and feedback notes. I love post-its so much!
This was my view when we are just starting. Empty white boards, sleepy people just waking up in the morning. Fresh starts!
We the mentors did a little bit of data analytics on the topics and the stages of the groups. if we didn't stop ourselves, probably we would have ourselves came up with an app to optimize this process.
Some of the creative works we did in the middle of our mentoring.
