At the beginning of this year Microsoft started the pilot of a practicum program at two schools in the US. One of which is the University of Washington (UW). At UW two colleges got to participate, mine (iSchool) was one.
They want us to imagine what has not been imagined yet and create a solid case for the feasibility of whatever vision we get. The deliverable is an in-depth analysis of market opportunities and efficiency inhibitors together with recommendations for what we envision can be accomplished in those areas. The team comprises of 3 MBA students together with 3 MSIM students. We all have different areas of expertise but wanted to present this in a different way than simply writing it down. So we did some brainstorming and came up with a visual representation. We were thinking of pillars representing each person and of pie-charts. Our first few ideas:
Being on a tight timeline for getting this done – within the day. A pie-chart is ultimately not correct since it percentages/ratios between certain areas. We wanted to represent a team. I created a first draft of what it could look like based one of the visions above. But, the team somewhat liked the idea but wanted it to be more personal so we sketched over this with an idea of having pictures:
The next iteration looked better and I proceeded to created the final product.
