Rapid Ideation! Lets get started [Video]

The fall session with a brand new Innovation Lab youth team has begun. We opened by introducing students to the basics of mobile design through an activity we created to help them quickly come up with an app idea. The Mobile Design 101 activity gets young people thinking about what their phones can do, what they wish their phones could do, and how these functionalities can address concerns or opportunities in different communities. We started by asking:  What can your phone do? Then we presented questions based on a specific topic area–sometimes called a problem statement. For this activity we focused on public art, so we asked three questions:

• How do we make public art more discoverable?
• How do we make public art more tied to the community?
• How do we support public art?

Next, the young people picked the question they wanted their apps to address. For example, if they chose “How do we make public art more discoverable?” they would say “This …