IDEO CoLab — Blog — Alisha Austin

IDEO CoLab Winter Fellowship

This Winter, I worked closely with IDEO CoLab staff, academic fellows and corporate fellows on design briefs that involved emerging tech (Blockchain, Machine Learning, AR, VR, etc).

FellowshipsAlisha AustinApril 4, 2018Design, Tech, IDEO CoLab

Building a Prototype

When building a prototype; I don't start with an answer. I start with questions. "What do I want to learn?", "What are my assumptions?" and what are the ways I can get from "I don't know" to "Here is what I know now". When I prototype, I'm building a story and then inviting people into that story to reshape it.

Design ProjectsAlisha AustinJanuary 22, 2018Design, Prototyping, IDEO CoLab

IDEO CoLab Makeathon

I was chosen out of a pool of 100+ applicants to participate in a one day makeathon with IDEO CoLab. I traveled to IDEO CoLab’s location in Cambridge, MA. My team and I were given the challenge to create a digital wallet that could be applied to a human need.