Dynamic Leadership project - My position in this project

We are a team of 11 people, me and 3 other 3rd year students are leaders of the design team. We are mostly in charge of decision making, designing the whole design process from research (define) face to deliver face.

Preparation Before the Project Started

Leader team was not just in charge when the design project started, we need to get to know our stuffs (randomly picked lower year's students) and design their whole design process, including what methods they should apply through out the process, how to improve their skills and how to develop their design thinking.

Research | Discover Phase

Research face was all about finding the problem areas, sharing the thoughts, understanding the core of existing problem and the using different methods like solution mapping and mind-map to achieve it. At the end of this phase we came up with 3 research questions which represented 3 different direction that we could further research on.

Define Phase

The methods we used during this face were help to find the core problems with air pollution, find solutions and generate new ideas and further develop them. Together with the previous research we made a 'must, should, could' list as our final design's parameter. We also built ideations and concepts based on the information we had and discussed a lot on their pros and cons. At the end of this phase we were able to filter out 3 concepts for further development.

Develop Phase

We condensed our ideations into workable concepts at the beginning and applied different methods to analyze them and see if they suit the requirement. We decided our final direction and generate new concepts based on the old concepts. The concept was finalized as we kept doing these steps. By the end of this phase we had a solid concept that ready to go into the final deliver stage.

Deliver Phase | Our Final Concept

We were focus on refining our final concept, Air Quality Indicator ("AQ-I" in below text) and finishing the mock-ups, prototypes, and the video for showing how the concept work to our client. AQ-I is a project that NILU design office offered to Norwegian Institute for Air Research focusing on spreading the air pollution information to public. The project is a 3 in 1 project, included 'CITY BIKE APP', 'THE BIKE AQ-I' and 'AQ-I'.