Week Three found the team exploring possibles in San Francisco.
Monday and Tuesday functioned as our final prep before our client visit. Beyond continued efforts on our Gold Spike, we also brain stormed further ideas and concepts to take with us. With eager minds, we boarded a plane before dawn on Wednesday morning.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were a blur of travel and absolutely vital conversation with our client. By noon on Friday, we had spent nearly twenty hours in direct conversation with the Google Experience Design team. We were able to make the most out of in-person visits to multiple existing Google experience centers, see behind the drywall on one site still in construction for a better understanding of installation, and leverage multiple direct conversations with relevant Google employees from multiple strata of the company. While much of the specifics would considered covered by the team’s NDA, it is very easy to say that both the Googlers and the team wanted to make sure we got the most out of our visit.
The biggest thing that the team took home was a focused understanding of what we should be designing. Ranging from a deeper understanding of past experiences, the current scope of installations in various centers, or how targeted interactions may work moving forward, the information the team was able to process will be seen in every aspect of our future design.
With Quarter Reviews looming in two weeks, our task now is to collect all hypotheticals we may have, and start developing a very real path forward. With only twelve weeks remaining, there’s no time to lose.
