Having presented our progress so far to the rest of the studio at Midsemester Review, Team Switching Gears moved on to the Build stage of the human-centered design process. We initially brainstormed together and discussed what was important to include … Continue reading Building Toward Better Bike Maintanence
The team recently completed Mid-Semester Review (MSR). We presented our progress so far and received some meaningful feedback. Audience members gave us positive feedback, and asked the team some questions related to the sustainability of the project. One question that … Continue reading Mid-Semester Review: Rice Bikes
This week, Team Switching Gears solidified our How Can We statement so we could have a solid focus for the ideation process. We decided on: How can we encourage bikers at Rice to regularly perform maintenance on their bikes? With … Continue reading IDEATE: Switching Gears
This week, team Rice Bikes gained new insights via a survey filled out by nearly 100 Rice students. Our survey asked a variety of questions, and revealed the following: Rice bikers bike pretty often: On a scale of 1-5, the … Continue reading REFRAME: Team Rice Bikes
Over the past few weeks our Team has immersed ourselves into the problem space by conducting a deeper dive into research within our problem space. We then constructed a user persona of the what we determined to be the average … Continue reading IMMERSE: Team Rice Bikes
We kicked off the design process by examining the problem space in more detail: looking at subproblem spaces, establishing our assumptions, and identifying some questions to guide our further investigation in the coming weeks. To begin, we split our problem … Continue reading IDENTIFY: Team Rice Bikes
Hello! We are team Rice Bikes (alternative name: Switching Gears). We are a DFA team working closely with Rice Bikes, a student run business at Rice University, to encourage students to more consistently perform maintenance on their bikes. Our team has … Continue reading INTRODUCTION: Team Rice Bikes