Affinity Diagram IceBreaker

Blame it on my being overly involved in Orientation, Pre-College and Admissions. Maybe I participate in too many ice breakers getting to know complete strangers in a relatively short manner of time. I found a new metaphor for the literature review and affinity diagram stage of a project.

These steps are the Icebreaker. In a social setting, icebreakers are used to introduce strangers and to facilitate trust in a short period of time. It is much the same with affinity diagrams and literature reviews. Both of these methods facilitate trust among the team members as well as providing an overdose of information very quickly. Even in teams that have worked together in the past, there is the new “member” of the project space that must be introduced and this is a vita part of the project to lose inhibitions and truly embrace the project.

An Introduction...

I've held many blogs in the past. None of them have ever lasted, and none of them have ever amounted to much more than a compilation of strange stories or listing of information I don't really care to keep. More often, I find myself writing in personal journals. Much of what I write I have never wished to share, being a self inspection of my actions.

As I start to look beyond my existence as a student of design and look for a position to practice it as a professional, I find myself discussing methods and techniques with others that warrant a certain amount of criticism. Unable to achieve that in my own journals, I plan to use this blog as a means to express my various editorials on design in an attempt to better understand my process as well as my needs in the upcoming years.