In InnovatED I chose to do $20 Boss. In $20 Boss, we form groups based on what products we want to make, and in the end we run a stall in a market in the school. In my group was our CEO Zaina, Monique, and I. Our products were beaded jewellery which were aimed for the younger audience.

All the members receive $20 each to spend on the making of the products meaning we received $60 in total. At the end of the market, $60 is returned back to the school, 10% is donated to charity, and the rest is split up among the members.

Design Thinking Process

Throughout the whole process we followed the steps of the Design Thinking Process to help assist us in what order we should complete tasks in. We used this process when we were making our products, designing our products, creating our advertisement, and more.

Empathise:

For the empathise stage, the main thing we did was research. We researched our audience’s ages, their preferences and also brainstormed what style people around our age would like to buy. Some ways we collected this information was through asking our peers or friends in lower years, creating surveys through Forms, and asking ourselves what we would want to buy.

Define + Ideate:

After researching and empathising, we then had to define clearly and brainstorm what we were going to make, how we were going to do it, etc. This included our target audience, the style of bracelets we were going to make, what we had to buy (supplies), and how we were going to package the products. We decided to target our products to the younger female audience, make a variety of styles so that it wouldn’t just be pink or girly, we would wrap them in paper and steal it with a sticker.

Our business logo

Prototype + Test:

The next step was to use our materials we bought and make prototypes that we could test. For this process, each member made different styles of bracelets, looking at images and inspiration we found on the internet to base our designs off of. After we finished making a few bracelets, we asked a couple of our classmates to see which ones they liked the best. We did this procedure to test what sizes our bracelets should be and what styles are most popular.

Wheel of Capabilities

 

College Capabilities Wheel:

Collaboration: I think our group worked relatively well together and we all collaborated and got along with each other well. We all gave feedback for each other’s work that could help them improve and we all accepted the feedback and then used it to refine our products. All the members had fun working with each other because we didn’t have any negative attitude.

Organised: In the first few lessons, we were pretty organised as we had assigned roles, we had written down all the tasks we had to complete in which time frame and finished them in time. However, making the bracelets took a lot of time meaning we started to be behind on table set up and advertisements/posters. Also, some of our groups members got sick so we worked a lot through Microsoft Teams etc. which made it inconvenient when we needed to plan our stall design. Overall, I think our group was more or less average at organisation and I think we could’ve been better if we were a bit more strict on time management.

Effective Communication: I think our group had very effective communication throughout this whole process because we all communicated, asked questions, or confirmed things through our chats on Teams and Messages. This helped with little queries a member would have or if someone was working on the project and wanted to ask for the other member’s opinions.

 

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