Design Step 1: Defining the Problem

Evidence of work

For our Senior Capstone project we broke up the engineering design process into multiple steps. The first step involved furthering brainstorming concept designs, as well as focusing on what the consumer would want out of our project. To do this we created a demands and wishes list, researched the hydroponics market, and created a survey based on our project.

Presentation - Market research report, D&W list draft & mentors' feedback

The google slides presentation above is the slideshow our group created to present our market research, demands and wishlist and feedback we received from our mentors.

Sally Cesko - Human Centered Design - Research and Padlet.com update

Here is the document that my group made when doing our market research and focusing centering our design around consumer demands.

Sally Cesko - Define the problem initial Demand and Wishlist (D&W List)

Here is the demands and wishes list that my group made to plot out what our goals are for our project.

To the left is the survey our group created to collect the opinions about our hydroponics system concept from students at San Marin.