User Testing – Participant Feedback Summary As part of our pre-final user testing round, few participants tried a our blanket experience...

We attached the wide sensor pads to the blanket, raised the voltage to 12V accordingly, and routed all wires through a single long cable...

This week, we created fabric circles in a different color from that of the blanket itself, and on the circles we printed a delicate...

For the advanced prototype – we sewed the electrical wires into a 1.2 x 1.9 meter blanket, thereby concealing the cables. We also sewed...

Advanced Iterative Design Update This week, following the feedback we received, we made changes to the modularity aspect as part of...

This week we continued developing the project through an iterative design process. We took a cover of a blanket and attached...

Weekly Update: User Testing Insights and Next Steps This week, we made significant progress in our interative design . We selected...

This week we managed to get the heat working. We wrote a code in Arduino IDE. We took a small piece of fabric and placed the heating disk...

We began the technological research and examined several possible sensors for generating heat and for the activation mechanism of the...

This week, we delivered our final presentation for the semester. The presentation covered the full scope of our work, including an...

After gathering insights from the past few weeks, this week we focused on creating a more professional and cohesive paper prototype. Our...

This Week's Update: Testing Our Meditative Heating Blanket Prototype This week, we conducted an initial test of our solution – the...

This week, we participated in an engaging speed mentoring session with experienced product management mentors. Each mentor joined our...

Design Values Following last week's scenario writing, this week’s class focused on defining three core design values for our...

This week in class, we took a significant step forward in our project: starting to think about a prototype for our product. Building on...

Exercise 1: Create 50 Ideas After refining our How Might We question, we launched into a brainstorming session to generate as many...

This week, each group presented their chosen project domain. The presentations included need validation, which featured an overview of...

From Insights to Action This week’s class was all about teamwork and turning insights from our research into actionable ideas. Each group...

Group Discussion and Topic Selection In our third class meeting, we reviewed the findings from the expert interviews as a group. After a...

Getting Started: Forming Teams and Meeting Each Other In the first two weeks of the project, we began by dividing into teams and getting...