The Issue

When we were assianged a theme, our class discussed all of the thing that fall into our theme of accsesbility, before getting into our smaller groups. This way, we could brainstorm the barrier we want to fix that fits in the theme, and later get matched up with people that want to fix similar things. This made the proccese of coming up with a barrier that we, as a group, want to fix, easier. 

Research and Define

After being pared with people that felt passionet about similar things, we focused on a topic more narrow. For our group, that was animals, and later, animals suffing overheating. Once we picked that topic, our group would find a client willing to work with us, Matt Jacobson, that fit the profile. We then did some research  on animals overheating, which gave us the knowledge of what we needed to fix with our prototype . 

Ideate

Our group came up with many ideas of how we could fix dogs overheating, which was our clients need. We got feedback on our ideas from our client, and adults. We figuared out which ideas our client liked best, and what most people thought could succeed. That later got narrowed done to what our prodotype would be. This was very helpful so that we could not only make something that our client loved and needed, but also it helped us see what would work, and what wouldn't work, so that we could make changes off of that.

Test, Ierate, Implement

Once we got feedback on our ideas, we settled on the harness, and were able to start building.  Our group started building, and testing. Then it would sent to our client, who would let us know if we needed to make any changes. This helped our prodotype be the best it could be for our client, and make sure that it was fully working. We then made any changes, and ran some test to show that it worked. Now our product would be the best it could be for our client.

Lanch

Once we had our final prodotype, we launched our product, after taking data. We participated in a CBL forum, where we displayed our invention, along with a poster with our data on it, and an inveractive element. This helped our group be able to show others how hard we worked on our prodotype, and be able to take final data so the we were sure that it worked.