This week had a lot of very diverse yet equally exciting happenings.
On Tuesday, students met with their client partners for the first time. The conversations lasted the majority of our two hour period, and from the looks of it could’ve probably gone for an even longer time.
On Wednesday, we had a very exciting alumni, Jennifer Lopez ’08, come speak to our class about her own experience from being a geography major to becoming the head of Innovation at Capital One Labs. A few of our students were also invited to attend dinner at Pine with her later that evening to get more 1:1 time with her. With all the geography majors in our class, this was definitely a very inspiring and enlightening talk for our students!
Finally, on Thursday we had Daniella Reichstetter come as a guest lecturer to our course, to introduce some basic “business” elements and thinking of human centered design, especially through her lean canvas model, which students then practiced their own projects in. Overall students were fairly engaged and it was a topic that many of them had had limited exposure to.
We left them for the weekend with the key task of starting out their research by going into the field and finding users to interview!