Upon thinking about the Designing What Matters assignment my thoughts on it are that it was a really great way to think about what really matters for example, Does it work? Will people buy and use this item? Why? Does this item matter or is it just something that's not really needed? I think that after this assignment my thinking process on things like it will be different thinking about the “customers” and if the item really is needed.
Now after reading the NASA article about the $23 million toilet it really went with the assignment the engineers that made the toilet I honestly think they designed what matters as of course with no gravity it probably really does get stinky even with the gravity it gets stinky so I can only imagine without gravity. I remember reading the article more and reading it a few times and one of the things I had noted was that the engineers of the new toilet also made the toilet more accommodated for females, even though the toilet was described as “pointy”? Although a pointy toilet does not sound very fun or pleasant I think that a minor thing like that is fine seeing as how at least it works.
Thinking on the prompt given “Thinking back to your real-world problem that needs a solution that isn’t problematic (from the activity last week and this week), how can you begin to tackle this problem by starting with what matters most? How will you determine what that is? What would be your first steps?” I know it may sound like a lot but think small polls at a time would be best for this type of thing like for example “How did this (product) work?” or anything close to that I personally think that other peoples input is a very needed thing I think customers opinions should matter to some percent maybe not 100% but definitely some.
In the end, I think designing what matters is the most important.
