This class was a roller coaster of emotions for me, starting high going low then going back up again. I came in very excited to collaborate with a team and get to work on an exciting project, but as the first couple days began and we learned that our topic was the real estate market, […]

The evaluate mode experience was very helpful for our group. Jenna lives in a retirement community, so she was able to set up a focus group with some of her neighbors. The neighbors came over for dinner and talked for a bit and then we got the focus group started. Some had already written down […]

Prototyping has been very helpful to me and my group in the development of our idea. We actually completely changed our idea because of our original prototype discussions. We began believing that we were going to build a room for an elderly person that could be quickly updated to suite the individuals medical condition. Through […]

My group is focusing our project on the elderly, and more specifically on retirement homes. As there are many types of retirement homes and many levels of care that residents can receive in these homes, we needed to use this stage as a way to narrow our focus on a specific aspect or stage of […]

As much as I learned during the interview process about retirement communities, I believe I learned even more about the interview process itself. My first interview was choppy and I did not do great work. As I asked questions and heard the answers I typed the more notes for the responses than I should have. […]

For the observation sessions, I completed one in Colonial Williamsburg for 30 minutes, and decided that I would benefit more from doing a different session online watching videos. I will start this blog with what was difficult. Our group’s focus for this project is on retirement communities in big cities. Obviously, it is unrealistic to […]

For this blog I am going to talk through the design process and what stuck out to me the most at each step. The first step was the interview, and I ran into a few problems at this stage. As it was my first time, I was definitely not a great interviewer. I asked very […]

My name is Grant Waxter. I am a senior marketing major with a business analytics concentration. I am from Frederick, Maryland. I play wide receiver on the football team, and am the director of private sector accounts for Agency 1693 the advertising agency on campus. For fun I enjoy fishing, playing basketball, and playing ping […]

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