What am I doing?

According to the modern-day bible – the internet -

design-specific cognitive activities that designers apply during the process of designing — Wikipedia

Huh, what does that even mean?

I am an Army officer – struggling to complete a design thinking subject. I don’t think I will ever truly comprehend what design thinking is in such a small period. I am only now starting to comprehend the principles and the framework.

I have learnt so much from case study reading and actually applying design thinking to live cases and understanding the growth and change companies and other organisations have undergone.

I would have never realised 5 weeks ago that a UI change could save a whole business. My case study research showed true “outside the box” means.

The answer is to look at the problem and find the answer.

I love the quote:

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor. - Bill Shankly

So, like my design, I threw out the ceiling option - the obvious answer. I then asked myself, how can I aim for the sky?

Easy – go beyond the limitations of security and networks and rules. Look at the experience, the desires of my consumer and the wishes of my learner. I needed to design a capability with an adaptive interface and still perform. I want appealing interfaces that enable

I am trying to manipulate the quantity of data available for visual analysis and create an attractive UI that allows everything to be received at the toucher of the fingers.

I love graphs. I understand them. There is something about pie and circular graphs that gives me a sense of completion.

While linear graphs and dashboards make me feel unfulfilled when the line is not in the top right-hand corner.

Just maybe, if I build it, they will come.