In collaboration with Ann Sofie Borge, Christine Rasch, Damien Humby, Dennis Widlic, Fredrik Hope, Gudmund Bang, Maja Soleng, Marika Pantelejeva. A "design-office" project leaded by Marius Kjølseth, Vilde Snekkestad and Elise Sandvik.
WHY:
Practical studies in Norwegian higher education can be a resourceful way of learning. But when the system around it lacks structure it is hard for the different users to benefit from it. Communication between students, tutors at the practice place and tutors at the school is different from school to school and from course to course. Bad experiences with this form of learning provokes discontent among students and is therefore no longer beneficial in the way it is intended. For the courses with a large proportion of mandatory practical work, it can make or break the student’s further education.
WHAT:
This project was originally a school project where the main purpose was to learn about dynamic project management. Together with two classmates, we got the task to lead and guide eight other students throughout a four-week period. We created a “design-office” and our customer (which was assigned to us) was Arbeidslivsportalen. Arbeidslivsportalen is a project started by Oslo Metropolitan University to make a digital platform aimed to improve the interactions between education and work life. Our task was to contribute with research, student insight, ideas and concepts for the platform. The outcome was an app which focuses on communication between all the users.
HOW:
By intuitive and playful design, which makes communication simple, accessible and uniform for all the users. Formed out of a four-week service-design workshop, including research, interviews with users, ideas, testing, mock-ups and prototyping.
PS. A LOT of post-its was affected during this project...
