This was a special one, our first on campus 'Think Lab'
Warm Up Activity
In the warm-up activity we had to observe a set of objects shown to us using the projector and jot down the characteristics of the person who'd own these objects. After a class-wide analysis we were able to pin point the age category, gender, occupation, and the personality of this person.
Main Activity
We received a mystery bag with the contents belonging to 'Sudha' (that's the name we gave this person). Inside the bag we got a unfinished pillow case, polyfill, a couple of bangles, needle and thread, embroidery thread which was inside a handmade phone case/carrier sling.
Apart from these objects we also received a set of photos of the working environment of Sudha. So a closet with a lot of clothes kept neatly and packed nicely. Most of it was saaris. There was also an image of iPad and iPhone.
Our Presentation
Our Inferences
Reflection
Studying one's personality based on their personal artifacts could give a very appropriate judgement.
Creating a user persona is very important for a designer as it helps them shape their work, test it out to the target audience.
Our characteristics accuracy score was around 70%, we missed the age group by almost half. Our judgement was a huge miss there.
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