Author Archives: Valeriana

We first started the design process by defining our design specification, which is designing a toy that shows and teaches energy conversion. As we decided to make a toy, we defined our target audience, elementary schoolers, based on that as … Continue reading →

Some strengths were that it is challenging so it is engaging to people, for example, when people were giving feedback on our project, many people were engaged in trying to get the ball inside the plinko game since we added … Continue reading →

Explain how you used design thinking practices to arrive at this iteration of your toy/device: We arrived at this iteration of our toy by first defining the target audience and our intended purpose or design problem which are elementary children … Continue reading →

What is the purpose of your device/toy, how does it function, and who is your user? Our toy is a combination of Plinko and the basketball arcade game. Its purpose is to teach and introduce to the user, elementary school … Continue reading →

A total of 617 million youth and adults lack basic mathematics and literacy knowledge (UN). As provided, the lack of quality education is a serious, important matter that calls for feasible solutions. Quality education is a very vague, general standard, … Continue reading →

During this Humanities assignment, we read contemporary realistic fiction books and reflected on how these books connect/differ from us and our identity, we also discovered power dynamics in these books and how these variables affected the theme of the story. … Continue reading →

Lip Balm Recipe + Trials The oil-based food coloring finally came after a few weeks of waiting. During this trial, I had added one drop of pink into the lip balm and the lip balm turned out better than the … Continue reading →