In this session, the participants were divided into 5 groups and given a design challenge: To come up with some solutions to improve the user experience of people at gas stations/convenient store for a made up oil company.

We then had 2 hours to brainstorm and come up with new ideas to solve the problems placed before us.

This opening workshop was a great mix of inspiration, collaborative work, improv and ran in all good fun.

I was part of a team of 8 individuals, including Steve Szoczei, Steve Portigal, Avi Soudack , Kerri Worth, Jon Tirmandi, Jerome Ryckborst and John Trottier. The Steves took on leadership early on and guided us through the brainstorming session and usability assessment.

Team Music/Canada in action

Too little time, to many ideas, not everyone on the same page led to an interesting dilemma: after 2 hours, all we had where a set of 7 flowchart pages filled with conflictive ideas some of which where mine.

Avi looking mighty serious!

Did we have any solutions to offer? Yes, but even I can’t answer that question!

It will be interesting to see how our team will present this messy proposal after dinner and hear what the other teams have come up with.

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