Reflection " Mind Mapping " 

 Challenge & Selection 

 One of my favorite tools is Mind Mapping . Generally , I use it when I feel that   we have collected a lot of different data from different stakeholders :   customers , partners , participants and so on . For me , Mind Mapping is a sort   of the bridge between what is and what if   phase : we use it when we are   eager to begin generating ideas .      I ’m a Product Designer for a consulting company so I use this tool often with   my clients while exploring different opportunities to innovate within their   company . I love this tool because it lets a lot of place to the imagination and   helps participants to understand the context of the customers lives instead   of seeing only business context . 

 Application 

 I start this exercise by laying all the data we have collected for everybody to   see it : for example , the good idea is to use a big light room . Visualize this   information helps to display the key components of what we have learned   during what is phase . Then , I invite different people and seat them at small 

 teams . I try to select very different people for this exercises . The only criteria is   to take curious and open - minded people , who are really interesting in what   you are doing .      Once everybody arrived , I distribute paper , stickers , markers , and   whiteboards to teams and explain the exercise . The important thing to do   here is to explain that they are here to help us to move forward and that   there are no good or wrong answers . Sometimes , I ask them to take off their   jackets and ties because it helps to put everyone on the same level and to be   more open - minded while working together .      Then , I ask everybody to make a tour of the room . Sometimes , I can give   them some additional explications about the information they can see .   Generally , this tour takes ten or fifteen minutes long , depending on the   quantity of information we have collected . Generally , while making this tour , 

 I ask participants not to take notes . After the tour , I propose them to make   another tour without speaking to one another , and this time to take notes of   any learning that in their opinion can help generate new ideas . 

 Next , I ask them to return to their teams and to share , sort and cluster these   ideas . Then I ask each team to take one of the themes they have identified   and to share it with everybody and put stickers related to this theme on the   whiteboard . People from other teams add their stickers from the related   theme and so one . The process is repeated until all themes identified are put   on the whiteboard . Once the job is done , together we identify insights   related to each cluster .     The last step of this exercise is to transform all the insights identified into   design criteria . I ask the participants how our design should be if everything   there possible ? Depending on the number of participants , together on in   teams , be create the list of design criteria that will help us to generate ideas   later .      I love this Mind Mapping exercise because it helps make people work   together and to share their creativity . 

 Insight & Approach 

 What I have learned from conducting this exercise with several groups is that   working together is the best way to find the most important insights . I think   so because by putting people with different backgrounds together we can   gain from their different experiences and ways of thinking .      Also , these type of activities makes people enjoy and help them to   understand that innovation is a very interesting process . That helps them to   realize that there are not « creative » and « analytical » persons and that   everyone can be creative , if only we let us being so .      I think one of the more difficult things here is to make people accept to   come to the workshop and help them to gain confidence . This is one of my   favorite workshops and I hope to be able to continue facilitating it during my   designer 's career . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
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: Reflection " Mind Mapping " 

 Challenge & Selection 

 One of my favorite tools is Mind Mapping . Generally , I use it when I feel that   we have collected a lot of different data from different stakeholders :   customers , partners , participants and so on . For me , Mind Mapping is a sort   of the bridge between what is and what if   phase : we use it when we are   eager to begin generating ideas .      I ’m a Product Designer for a consulting company so I use this tool often with   my clients while exploring different opportunities to innovate within their   company . I love this tool because it lets a lot of place to the imagination and   helps participants to understand the context of the customers lives instead   of seeing only business context . 

 Application 

 I start this exercise by laying all the data we have collected for everybody to   see it : for example , the good idea is to use a big light room . Visualize this   information helps to display the key components of what we have learned   during what is phase . Then , I invite different people and seat them at small 

 teams . I try to select very different people for this exercises . The only criteria is   to take curious and open - minded people , who are really interesting in what   you are doing .      Once everybody arrived , I distribute paper , stickers , markers , and   whiteboards to teams and explain the exercise . The important thing to do   here is to explain that they are here to help us to move forward and that   there are no good or wrong answers . Sometimes , I ask them to take off their   jackets and ties because it helps to put everyone on the same level and to be   more open - minded while working together .      Then , I ask everybody to make a tour of the room . Sometimes , I can give   them some additional explications about the information they can see .   Generally , this tour takes ten or fifteen minutes long , depending on the   quantity of information we have collected . Generally , while making this tour , 

 I ask participants not to take notes . After the tour , I propose them to make   another tour without speaking to one another , and this time to take notes of   any learning that in their opinion can help generate new ideas . 

 Next , I ask them to return to their teams and to share , sort and cluster these   ideas . Then I ask each team to take one of the themes they have identified   and to share it with everybody and put stickers related to this theme on the   whiteboard . People from other teams add their stickers from the related   theme and so one . The process is repeated until all themes identified are put   on the whiteboard . Once the job is done , together we identify insights   related to each cluster .     The last step of this exercise is to transform all the insights identified into   design criteria . I ask the participants how our design should be if everything   there possible ? Depending on the number of participants , together on in   teams , be create the list of design criteria that will help us to generate ideas   later .      I love this Mind Mapping exercise because it helps make people work   together and to share their creativity . 

 Insight & Approach 

 What I have learned from conducting this exercise with several groups is that   working together is the best way to find the most important insights . I think   so because by putting people with different backgrounds together we can   gain from their different experiences and ways of thinking .      Also , these type of activities makes people enjoy and help them to   understand that innovation is a very interesting process . That helps them to   realize that there are not « creative » and « analytical » persons and that   everyone can be creative , if only we let us being so .      I think one of the more difficult things here is to make people accept to   come to the workshop and help them to gain confidence . This is one of my   favorite workshops and I hope to be able to continue facilitating it during my   designer 's career .
### Output: 