Design for America

This week in class, we had the opportunity of having our University’s Design for America team come in a give us their very own workshop that involved creating potential solutions for real-life scenarios. The scenario that my team chose to focus on was a case involving a visually impaired mom that had a tough time identifying her daughter in crowded, public areas.

The Design for America team walked us through a step-by-step process of understanding and analyzing a given problem. We were instructed to write down all sorts of details on post-it notes. By doing this, we were able to make a poster filled with post-it notes that helped us come up with potential ideas for helping solve the problem. 

Our Idea

The idea that we came up with was a product that had a similar function to a Tile with the additional feature of google maps. Ideally, our product would be like the watch pictured above. We envisioned the mom to wear this watch to help locate her daughter. This would mean that her daughter would have to wear a tracker that the watch would sync up with. Through physical and audio queues, the mom would be lead towards her daughter in any public setting through a save route opened by Google Maps.