Topic Exploration: Transporation/Wayfinding Learning Workshop
Transportation & Wayfinding
Team: Gina, Jessica, Omar
For the Transportation & Wayfinding presentation, my team and I wanted to focus more on an activity rather than a presentation. With this in mind, we thought of the idea to create design sprint. For the design sprint we wanted our classmates to explore how to implement universal design into the existing transportation system.
We created the design briefs before creating the presentation contents. But we were wondering how to create different briefs for every group so that we could explore multiple topics. In the lens of a tourist, how would they approach SF and navigate around the area? From this idea, we chose to have a family visiting from Japan to visit SF for the Olympics. They would have to navigate the airport, different methods of transportation, and figure out signage. It was a good story to follow because it includes most aspects of transportation.
As a team, we met up in person 2-3 times to write the briefs together. It took a lot of discussion and planning to see what would be an effective brief. We wanted our peers to explore and have fun with the briefs, so we kept them open-ended. Once the briefs were figured out, we planned our presentation around topics that would support the proposals. We delegated the topics of the presentation by what we were each interested in researching. We also made the mindful decision to automatically put people in randomized groups so we could utilize our time wisely. Numbering off gets confusing and people making their own groups gets messy.
Overall, we think the activity went well and we’re glad they still managed to have fun. We were concerned about how clear the briefs were, but it turned out to be the right level of being open-ended. To us, success was assessed when our peers could implement universal design into the current transportation system. In the future we would have liked to practice our presentation and perhaps get feedback on the proposals.