Name Card-Empathize

I am making a name card for Ryan Brown. My name card will have my information.
Some questions and answers Ryan Brown asked me were:

• What is your favorite Book?
• Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
• What is your favorite color?
• Black
• What is your favorite movie?
• The Interview
• What is your favorite sport?
• Soccer
• What is your favorite Food?
• Sushi
• What is your favorite Drink?
• Coffee
• What is your favorite Hobby?
• Writing/Music
• What is your favorite TV show?
• Friends
• What is your favorite Class?
• English/History
• What is your favorite place
• Washington DC/Towns like Mendocino
• What is your favorite instrument
• I play piano and viola but I like viola better
• What kind of music do you like
• 70's-90's rock, modern rock, and classical
• What do you want to be when you grow up
• Writer

Digging Deeper

• Favorite Sport
• Favorite Music
• Favorite Classes/Profession
• Favorite Hobby
• Favorite Color

Software Development Life Cycle and the Design Thinking Process

Software Development Life Cycle and the Design Thinking Process:

• System Analysis, Requirements Gathering
• Defines project goals into defined functions and operation with the objective in mind. It is the process of gathering user requirements, diagnosing problems and recommending improvements to the future system
• The steps are:
1. Gathering facts
1. End user requirements are obtained through documentation, client interviews, observation and questionnaires, asking what the user is currently doing and if there are any specific improvements they want or prefer
2. Scrutiny of the existing system
1. Identify pros and cons of the current system in-place, so as to carry forward the pros and avoid the cons in the new system.
3. Analyzing the proposed system
1. Solutions to the shortcomings in step two are found and any specific user proposals are used to prepare the specifications
• Systems Designs
• Describes desired features and operations in detail, including screen layouts, rules, guidelines, process (data flow and entity relation) diagrams, pseudocode, and any other documentation
• Development
• The real code is written here.
• Integration and Testing
• Brings all the modules (pies) together into a special testing environment, then checks for errors, bugs, and interoperability
• Maintenance:
• During the maintenance stage of the SDLC, the system is assessed to ensure it does not become obsolete. This is also where updates are made to the initial software. It involves continuous evaluation of the system in terms of its performance and completing the change requests based on feedback.

Below, there is a picture of the Design Thinking Process, which a lot of designers use to fabricate their product.

1. Empathize
1. Work to fully understand the experience of the user for whom you are designing. Do this through observation, interaction, and immersing yourself in their experiences.
2. Define:
1. Process and synthesize the findings from your empathy work in order to form a user point of view that you will address with your design
3. Ideate:
1. Explore a wide variety of possible solutions through generating a large quantity of diverse possible solutions, allowing you to step beyond the obvious and explore a range of ideas
4. Prototype:
1. Transform your ideas into a physical form so that you can experience and interact with them and, in the process, learn and develop more empathy
5. Test:
1. Try out high-resolution products and use observation and feedback to refine prototypes, learn more about the user, and refine your original point of view

Help Me Remember Someone's Name

Meeting someone new can be difficult. If you are like me, then remembering someone's name is not a challenge. Most of the time, it is not hard for me to do because I use some tricks to help me remember their name. When I meet someone, their name will normally stick with me. If they don't, some of the methods I use are...

• Puns! I love making puns and I do so every day. Puns help me remember things.
• I listen to their interests and try making a rhyme out of that.
• If all else fails, I just add their contact to my phone and I look at that if I need to.
• Worst case, I'll just ask them if I forget.

Empathize-Ways I Would Think on Behalf of My User

As someone who finds herself surrounded with people asking her for favors and advice, I believe I have reasonable tactics that can help me empathize with someone. Empathy is feeling the emotions someone else expresses and thinking thoughts they would think. When empathizing with someone, it's important to take in many factors into the situation, such as their age, their hobbies and interests, their sense of humour (if they even have one), their music taste, the little details that make that person their idiosyncratic self, their lifestyle, and most importantly, the reasons why they came to me for advice or a favor. Even after working on a plan, I believe it is important to pause after every step, focus on their needs and ponder their response and their future goals in relation to the project.