In the 'fuzzy front-end' of the design process - where all assumptions are left behind - the designer relies heavily on intuition. To build a more robust set of tools to help put a problem in context, I worked with Apeksha Garga, Payaal Patel, and Nikhil Mathew to develop a trend graphing method that will let designers aggregate contextual research across projects. We developed a software platform plan to enable web-based team collaboration.
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