Overview

In this project, you’ll proposed a design idea ****that supports or promotes sustainable behaviors and practices for INDIVIDUALS in day-to-day use.

Focus

Waste products from food service and dining — encouraging sustainable behaviors relating to disposing of food, containers, wrappers, utensils, and other waste at specific campus location where food is served and/or eaten.

Design Thinking Steps

For this project, you’ll focus on these steps of the design thinking process:

• empathizing - interviewing and observing potential users to understand their needs
• defining -- identifying several potential problem / opportunity spaces and developing point of view statements for each space
• ideating - brainstorming and generating potential solutions for your selected point of view and minimal viable product definition
• prototyping -- creating your first, very rough prototypes of the essential product features to explore and illustrate the user experience and functionality of your proposed design
• testing - observing as other students test your design prototypes, then iterating and refining your design ideas
• sharing -- by presenting your prototypes, design thinking steps, and your evaluation of the effectiveness and impact of your proposed design

Workflow / Steps in the Process

• Step 1: Empathizing
• Step 2: Defining
• Step 3: Ideating
• Step 4: Prototyping