School : 

 National University of Colombia 

 University of Virginia 

 Instructor : 

 Carolina Gomez 

 Final Assignment : 

 Reflection - Visualization Tool 

 Name : 

 Carolina Finetti 

 Date : 

 February 15th , 2021 

 Challenge 

 My name is Carolina Gomez , I am currently studying Engineering in Development and 

 Innovation , where the application of design thinking is crucial for my career to know 

 how to create a new product idea or even optimizing one that already exists . The 

 reason why I started this course is because one of our final projects on the subject of 

 “ Innovation and experimentation of creative processes ” is to design furniture made 

 out of cardboard . This sustainable furniture must help the elderly to carry out 

 different activities , such as putting on shoes , cutting their toenails , moving around , 

 doing flexibility exercises , and other simple activities that may be difficult for them 

 due to their age . Thanks to the different steps of the design thinking process , I will be 

 able to successfully create these innovative cardboard furniture and empathize with 

 the user in the best possible way . 

 Selection 

 I believe that using the visualization tool allowed me to get to the main purpose of 

 the project , to empathize with the user through innovation . As Angela Weyes said in 

 her video explaining the visualization tool , this leads us to extrapolation , which is 

 inductive reasoning and thinking about possibilities that we have not yet seen . Finally 

 the way we did it was by doing sketches of our ideas , in order for the whole team to 

 understand what we can not explain in simple words . Fortunately , each member of 

 the team were from different careers , so having different points of view on how to 

 make this sustainable furniture allowed us to consider all possibilities and led us to 

 having one big idea . Later on , each member of the team did their own sketch on the 

 cardboard furniture , and by the end we created one single final sketch that 

 complemented each of the other sketches . 

 Application 

 Since the objective of the project was the design of the product itself , the team and I 

 decided that brainstorming would be the best way to get there . This however , was no 

 easy task , since everyone had different ideas on how the product should be , but at 

 the same time , it allowed us to share ideas and merge them into one single idea . 

 Therefore , I think that visualization would have been the most helpful innovation tool 

 as we wanted to create an idea with a team from a diverse background that offered 

 expertise and insight in various different subjects . 

 Furthermore , using the visualization tool allowed us to have a very clear idea on how 

 the furniture would be and how it can be innovative . As a team , we decided that 

 making a table that could elevate only by pulling a cardboard bar up and down would 

 be sufficient enough to cover the necessities of the elderly mentioned above . In this 

 way , they could use the mini table for any purpose they wanted . Also , the cardboard 

 table could lift up over 35 kg , which we considered is enough since the whole thing 

 was made out of cardboard . 

 Insight 

 After finishing the course , I learned that in order to generate an innovative product , it 

 is not enough to have a new idea , you got to know how to implement it in your 

 day - to - day life . Just like the visualization tool , it takes several steps to even generate 

 a simple drawing . What I noticed about the team is how we focused on making the 

 cardboard furniture simpler rather than innovative . To achieve this , we must have a 

 broad repertoire and think outside the box . Continuously , know how to change the 

 mindset of people so that they can see what we want to convey , which is how a 

 simple piece of cardboard can help the elderly in a way that they did not know it 

 could be done . 

 Approach 

 Another tool that I consider important throughout the course was the learning launch 

 tool . Personally , I think it goes hand in hand with the visualization tool because you 

 can not use one without using the other . For example , when experimenting with your 

 final prototype , you should have first generated it by making sketches of it . On the 

 other hand , when generating these sketches , you should think about whether it really 

 is a market need , rather than just a design that looks aesthetically good . That is why 

 it is important to know how to communicate with people and be able to be 

 empathetic with users in order to generate data that will help the user to use your 

 product . You must capture your design and make it a reality , because if people start 

 to believe in your product , you are already creating innovation . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: Carolina Finetti, Carolina Gomez
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: School : 

 National University of Colombia 

 University of Virginia 

 Instructor : 

 Carolina Gomez 

 Final Assignment : 

 Reflection - Visualization Tool 

 Name : 

 Carolina Finetti 

 Date : 

 February 15th , 2021 

 Challenge 

 My name is Carolina Gomez , I am currently studying Engineering in Development and 

 Innovation , where the application of design thinking is crucial for my career to know 

 how to create a new product idea or even optimizing one that already exists . The 

 reason why I started this course is because one of our final projects on the subject of 

 “ Innovation and experimentation of creative processes ” is to design furniture made 

 out of cardboard . This sustainable furniture must help the elderly to carry out 

 different activities , such as putting on shoes , cutting their toenails , moving around , 

 doing flexibility exercises , and other simple activities that may be difficult for them 

 due to their age . Thanks to the different steps of the design thinking process , I will be 

 able to successfully create these innovative cardboard furniture and empathize with 

 the user in the best possible way . 

 Selection 

 I believe that using the visualization tool allowed me to get to the main purpose of 

 the project , to empathize with the user through innovation . As Angela Weyes said in 

 her video explaining the visualization tool , this leads us to extrapolation , which is 

 inductive reasoning and thinking about possibilities that we have not yet seen . Finally 

 the way we did it was by doing sketches of our ideas , in order for the whole team to 

 understand what we can not explain in simple words . Fortunately , each member of 

 the team were from different careers , so having different points of view on how to 

 make this sustainable furniture allowed us to consider all possibilities and led us to 

 having one big idea . Later on , each member of the team did their own sketch on the 

 cardboard furniture , and by the end we created one single final sketch that 

 complemented each of the other sketches . 

 Application 

 Since the objective of the project was the design of the product itself , the team and I 

 decided that brainstorming would be the best way to get there . This however , was no 

 easy task , since everyone had different ideas on how the product should be , but at 

 the same time , it allowed us to share ideas and merge them into one single idea . 

 Therefore , I think that visualization would have been the most helpful innovation tool 

 as we wanted to create an idea with a team from a diverse background that offered 

 expertise and insight in various different subjects . 

 Furthermore , using the visualization tool allowed us to have a very clear idea on how 

 the furniture would be and how it can be innovative . As a team , we decided that 

 making a table that could elevate only by pulling a cardboard bar up and down would 

 be sufficient enough to cover the necessities of the elderly mentioned above . In this 

 way , they could use the mini table for any purpose they wanted . Also , the cardboard 

 table could lift up over 35 kg , which we considered is enough since the whole thing 

 was made out of cardboard . 

 Insight 

 After finishing the course , I learned that in order to generate an innovative product , it 

 is not enough to have a new idea , you got to know how to implement it in your 

 day - to - day life . Just like the visualization tool , it takes several steps to even generate 

 a simple drawing . What I noticed about the team is how we focused on making the 

 cardboard furniture simpler rather than innovative . To achieve this , we must have a 

 broad repertoire and think outside the box . Continuously , know how to change the 

 mindset of people so that they can see what we want to convey , which is how a 

 simple piece of cardboard can help the elderly in a way that they did not know it 

 could be done . 

 Approach 

 Another tool that I consider important throughout the course was the learning launch 

 tool . Personally , I think it goes hand in hand with the visualization tool because you 

 can not use one without using the other . For example , when experimenting with your 

 final prototype , you should have first generated it by making sketches of it . On the 

 other hand , when generating these sketches , you should think about whether it really 

 is a market need , rather than just a design that looks aesthetically good . That is why 

 it is important to know how to communicate with people and be able to be 

 empathetic with users in order to generate data that will help the user to use your 

 product . You must capture your design and make it a reality , because if people start 

 to believe in your product , you are already creating innovation .
### Output: 