Name Card Mission Reflection

1. Why is each step required?
1. I think each step is required because it helps every designer pause and process the needs of their client. The steps make it much easier to make an idea and follow through with it, along with keeping the client's needs in mind. When you empathize, you think of the needs of your client and create a product. When you define a challenge and theme you build upon the ideas you formed when you were empathizing with your client. The challenge is constantly put through out the process, and when you ideate something, you have to keep that challenge in mind. When you make a protoype or you test something, you use skills and ideas that you have built throughout the entire process. Each step is required because it builds upon the one before it, and wihtout it, the whole process would collapse.
2. What did you learn?
1. I learned a lot about my peers, and I also learned a lot about the design process. I also learned about disruptive innovation and what makes a good design. This mission taught me what a successful designer must do.
3. What is your contribution towards disruptive innovation for this project?
1. Apart from just enjoying my 'artistic ability', I am proud of my project because it is seen as disruptive innovation. The idea of using calligraphy to write my name was new, and my idea of using the soccer ball to showcase my other interests was disruptive as well. My peers would often remark, "i wish I had done that!" as I showed them my work.