Microsoft Firenze competition
This is a design competition that brings together team members with backgrounds in technology, design and business to create a product concept. Through this project our team was able to create a product concept built on user research, ideation, technical feasibility and business sustainability.
Because this competition fell during our winter break, I experienced my first cross-continental brainstorming session via Skype. This lead to diverse participants in Pittsburgh, Boston, San Francisco and Atlanta.
Our Process
Over a two month period we followed a user centered process to develop a design solution, technical plan and business plan. Our process included:
- Exploratory research of broad markets
- Affinity diagramming to find focus
- Exploratory research (survey, contextual inquery, observation)
- Ideation & brainstorming
- Concept validation
- Scenario & persona development
- Wireframing
- System maping
- Visual design
- Technical analysis
- Business plan development
- Presentation design