Define--creating POV statements!

On April 30, the Steering Committee and Advisor team worked to create our POV or Problem/Experience Statements. The team reviewed the more than 30 responses to our survey of tech workers, then worked to develop lists of users, needs, and insights. Next, the team developed a list of possible POVs and voted on them.










The complete list:


  • ·         Tech-saturated tech worker needs a way to escape tech to have analog, hands-on experiences. (7 votes)
  • ·         Tech workers need a way to be creative because he/she wants to relax and do something different from his/her job role. (7 votes)
  • ·         Resource-limited tech worker needs a way to effectively donate because time and money are limited. (7 votes)
  • ·         Resource-limited tech worker needs a way to escape their hoarding mentality to see the benefits of giving time and money. (5 votes)
  • ·         Tech worker who does not donate time/money to nonprofits needs a way to see the outcome of their contribution to connect with their community. (5 votes)
  • ·         Lonely tech worker needs a way to meet people because it feels less lonely to feel connected. (4 votes)
  • ·         Tech workers who are creative need a way to express their creativity outside of work because being creative makes them feel a sense of inspiration and reward. (4 votes).
  • ·         Creative/design tech worker needs a way to engage in variety of creative activities to produce better design and be more successful at their job. (hybrid; 4 votes).
  • ·         Stressed tech worker needs a way to take a break from work to be stimulated in new ways with food, outdoor activities and community to prevent burnout (hybrid; 3 votes).
  • ·         The tech worker needs to be creative at work and outside of work to feel a sense of reward and accomplishment.
  • ·         Tech workers in design need a way to create art themselves because they want to be better at their job and engage/understand their target. (1 vote)
  • ·         People going to museums or being creative at work need to interact with other to gain a broader view of art. (1 vote)
  • ·         The latent artist needs a plan to make something big. (1 vote)
  • ·         Problem-solver needs a way to find an alternative approach to problem solving because she needs more creative an innovative solutions. (1 vote)
  • ·         Stressed out tech worker needs and escape to support mental health.(0 votes)
  • ·         Stressed tech worker needs a way to relax that reduces their cognitive load.(0 votes)
  • ·         Busy tech worker needs more time to spend at a nonprofit. (0 votes)
  • ·         Tech worker not interested in art needs a way to support groups aligned with values because that’s what they want to do. (0 votes)
  • ·         Tech workers need a way to be creative outside of work because they are burning out. (0 votes)


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Empathy Meeting!

Image
Our six new Art and Technology Ambassadors met for the first time with our Steering committee on April 16 to develop our empathy strategy. Groups met to discuss ways we could learn more about our target audience and questions that we could ask them to understand their unique needs. Next steps include narrowing down our questions and then developing and releasing a survey!
Read more

Brainstorming

Image
On May 14, we brainstormed! Team members worked with two separate POVs. Team 1: Overworked (by choice) tech worker wants to avoid burnout and needs a way to decompress creativity with a minimum amount of preparation or training because it is difficult to plan when you have an impacted schedule. Their word cloud: Team 2: Resource-limited tech worker needs a way to effectively donate and see the outcome of their contribution because time and money are limited and they want to connect with the community. Their word cloud:
Read more

3.13.18--Persona and Outreach

Image
At this meeting, we drilled down into the persona for our participants, updating and refining. We identified what is critical (need to have) for our persona, including: living or working within a 10 mile radius of the Art Center; wants to engage with the community; connection to tech community; and interested in actively participating in or learning about creativity. Other factors, such as sense of humor, curious, looking to meet new people, and significant network, were identified as "nice to have." In order to promote diversity in the group, we decided to strive to include both those who had given time and money to other nonprofits and those who have not. This will be added to gender, ethnicity, career stage, whether one has children or not, and whether a candidate has visited the Art Center not. The hope is that our participants will represent diversity in all of those areas. With our leadership group identified as the Steering Committee, we then worked to determine a ...
Read more