Wrapping Up
Final presentations are all done and everything went swimmingly. Our patient group got surprisingly close over the last couple of weeks, and everyone was great to work with. While I enjoyed getting so immersed in the design process while taking this class, I think my main takeaway regarding the process is the importance of empathy. Stepping into someone else’s shoes and really understanding their whole perspective is a major key to being able to build a solution to their needs. It’s not simply about fixing a problem. Ensuring that a user can comfortably adopt the solution provided is much more important to the solution’s success.
I don’t know what I would change about this class. The blogs are a good idea. I think the workload was just about the right amount. I understand that it is a J term, so the workload is bound to be heavy. Any more work than we had probably would have been too much. However, the projects were fair and covered a lot of material that was extremely useful to learn. I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t get to hear some of the lectures covered over the semester-long version of the class, but ya can’t win ’em all. David and Dr. Allen, thanks for a very fulfilling two weeks!
-Ahnaf C.
BME Design 