As a group, we established a separate blog over which we could communicate about our innovation project. At first, we all compiled our ideas textually in a single place for easy decision-making. We categorized the topics for an even easier voting process and established polls through which we could identify which aspects we would like to incorporate into the design. I made efforts through email and blog posts to encourage my teammates to also post their votes to open up discourse over the combinations and to give their input in a timely manner.
After getting a majority vote on several traits, we assigned out the sketches to two people, myself included. I volunteers to redo and refine characteristics originally designed by Thad, namely the circular under-wire structure that prevents sharp edges on the umbrella, and also redrew my contribution: the hand-fitted handle. My primary challenge was creating a sketch that was clean and could maintained reliable line lengths and widths. We collaborated the images and then my teammate added digital coloring to try and provide consistency to the product. Lots of conversation occurred before arriving to the final design.
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