The UX Club
We are a group of members who are passionate about exploring product design from the humans' need. We hope to design products and services that meet humans' values in various possible ways. Therefore, our approach is to share related concepts through various themed activities and create a collaborative, share, understanding, and positive design culture.
It all started with one central person — shin, who stood up and set the fires in our hearts to start a change in our company.
At Ruten, we found out its lack of understanding between teams and lack of design culture that starting from user's need. So Shin asked us to join him and build a club together to make the change. We have two principal purposes:
We are not trying to change the people but trying to fill the gaps between people — with relationships. Boding with the people you work with is really important, this can open up conversations and trust between them, which allows participants to solving problems in a collaborative way.
Another purpose is we want to increase our influence through different themed activities. A design culture doesn't just happen, and it had to be cultivated. We need to plant the seed in people's hearts and keep irrigating to let them bloomed. The more people we can impact, the more influence we can have.
We quickly decided we wanted to do a design thinking workshop as our first great opening event because we wanted to let coworkers know what it feels like to collaborate seamlessly by being in the same room and contributing towards a common goal.
Since we are going to conduct a design thinking workshop, we will prepare it by using the design thinking process. The first problem is to define the main topic and challenge for our workshop. To avoid coworkers feel like they were still working, we wanted the topic to have nothing to do with our industry but still touching every participant — the experience that everybody had. After a few rounds of discussion, we decided the problems we were aiming to solve is about credit cards, the thing that everybody had.
After weeks and weeks of endless brainstorming and discussion, we came out with the workshop's scope and objects. But to make sure everything runs smoothly, we still need to run a pre-workshop ourselves.
We followed the schedule and timeline that we made to see the actual situation. I think we all did a great job and feel more confident about what we do after the pre-workshop. We only needed a few adjusts, and we were ready to go.
We received lots of responses after we open up to sign up. Unfortunately, we can't afford too many participants due to the location. We ended up accepts 30 people to attend this event. We also asked them to take a survey to know the participants' level of understanding about the topic and the general idea before coming to the workshop, and it also helped us know how to group them as a team.
I learned so much about preparing workshops, communication, teamwork, and design thinking. But among all, I really learned a lot about getting on stage and speaking about my ideas and knowledge to the audience. It is really challenging for me to organize my thoughts and put them down in text or images so that the audiences with zero experience can easily understand. I feel fortunate to have these opportunities and have those members of our club move toward the goal together.
