today is things I forgot/got wrong forces that affect the transcript

January 11 Week 2
agenda

Q source (quelle = source, not unknown) electives, majors

questions/unfinished business increasing professionalism of registrars
transcripts redux, leading to continuing education
design thinking grading systems
another thought on power more students (GI Bill, etc), transfers
privacy (FERPA)
no class 1/16 Martin Luther King Day
reminder: office hours today, 1:30 - 3:00, 330M MGH name/gender
legal considerations (how long to keep)
photocopying, typing, computer, email, imaging, PDF, XML

forces that affect the transcript the transcript design

electives, majors is really a distillation, consolidation, summary from something much

increasing professionalism of registrars
continuing education
grading systems
more students (GI Bill, etc), transfers
privacy (FERPA)
name/gender
legal considerations (how long to keep)
photocopying, typing, computer, email, imaging, PDF, XML
larger - a more comprehensive student record keeping system
across the institution and various aspects of the student experience What do designers really do? Use an
(student life, residences, dining, library, athletics, IMA, even U Pass) example from the article or video to explain.
not unlike information systems in any large organization (what the UW knows
about me) Whats an example of something thats been
society and institutions designed, but isnt typically thought of that
entities of power way?
evolution has been shaped by a number of forces, but where might it be
going?
fire design thinking
250,000 - 1,000,000 ya?
Design thinking is a human-centered method
for creatively solving problems and
improving products, processes, or services
with an uncertain, indeterminate outcome
A method is just a general approach, not a
deterministic algorithm for success
As with any method, you still have to adapt it
to your particular circumstances

Inspiration

Identify an opportunity or problem to solve

Inspiration personally economically
Figure out who cares and who is affected the most
(direct & indirect stakeholder groups, vulnerable & culturally & legally
users) desirable viable
Success!
Research and empathize with them to determine
what they want/need/value; adjust problem as
needed
technically
Implementation Ideation Analyze existing solutions feasible
Identify existing infrastructure you can leverage

Be realistic about your economic, technical, legal,

and cultural constraints
Ideation Implementation Palm Beach County butterfly ballot
2000
Try to start with a clean slate; think Build a development team with complimentary skills;
outside the box every visionary needs an engineer

Develop a feasible business/implementation/organizational/

Collaborate and brainstorm with divergent thinking,
then use convergent thinking to narrow it down to a
small set of possible solutions
Consider the whole system; design an entire platform
not just a single product
Prototype, test, and fail often!
institutional strategy
If practical, release early and often
Surround it with a community of supporters and collaborators
Closely monitor reactions/usage, and feed that back into the next
cycle

Palm Beach County butterfly ballot The Problem Statement

2000
A clear and concise statement about I want to get a coffee
what problem(s) you are trying to solve,
and why they should be solved
during the break, but I
dont have enough time!
To discover the real root problem, you probably
need to do some initial user research What are two or three
possible root problems?
How would your solution
change depending on
what the root problem
really was?
 Declaration of Independence
Assume the problem is a 1776
desire for hot, liquid coffee
but theres not enough time
to get it
Ideate to come up with at
least 2 possible solutions (1
simple, 1 crazy)
Assume an unlimited
budget!

Report back at 11:50.

Dunlap Broadside Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence original rough draft

1776 1776 1776
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He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most
sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who information-as- information-as-
never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another knowledge knowledge
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hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. externalization information- as-process
This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of as-thing
the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market
where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for
suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable
commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of
distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms
among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by
murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off
former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes
which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.