Upcoming Events

Note: Due to inclement weather resulting in the university closure on March 13th and the Reading Week break the following week (Feb 18-22), this workshop has been postponed to Wed, Feb 27th.  Workshop #4 of the Sandbox Discover program will focus on “Generating ideas – the power of brainstorming” or more precisely—the Ideate stage of the design thinking process. Building on both the Empathize and Define stages, the Ideate stage encourages us to generate as many solutions / ideas as possible through…

Attend an information session about an upcoming .Net tool designed to improve application development workflow and allow for never-before-seen solutions! FiCS Script is a powerful runtime compiler that can interact with the codebase and change it. Change a value of a field, add a new class, alter a method, change a single file or the entire project – all seamlessly at runtime. Harness flexibility of a dynamic language while having the performance of a static one! Following the presentation, there will…

Creating personas are a crucial component in understanding the stakeholders affected by your idea. A persona is not based on any specific person but is an abstract representation of many people with similar characteristics. Developing personas based on your research insights can help you focus on designing solutions without having to concentrate on dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people in your target audience Before you spend time and money on research and prototyping, this workshop will help you to ask…

Workshop #5 will focus on “Getting ideas out of your head – the power of the storyboard”. The Prototype stage of the design thinking process pushes problems solvers to see their idea evolve rapidly through the use of a specific prototyping tool: storyboards. Storyboards are quick, easy and cheap to produce. They can be thought of as the earliest physical manifestation of your idea. The goal is to maximize learning early in the process to avoid costly and time-consuming mistakes…

Learn to represent yourself and your ideas more effectively. Through a series of exercises, you will learn methods to present and communicate effectively and persuasively. We will discuss how to project a confident image, organizing your content for impact, and creating a stronger connection with your listeners so that they can better hear, understand and retain your message. We will also discuss how to better understand and become comfortable with your own style, increasing your presentation confidence. Meet Scott Furlotte...…

Workshop #6 of the Sandbox Discover program will focus on “Prototyping and Experimentation”. We’ll continue with the prototyping stage of design thinking and move on to the final stage of the process – the testing stage. This week we will concentrate on refining prototypes with the learning we gained last week and also spend some time experimenting/testing the prototype with users. The goal is not to defend your prototype but to observe how your user(s) interact with it. Based on this new…