HEYO!Early Friday morning 3.1.19, our Outreach team and a few studio members went to the Greater San Marcos Youth Council meeting, which helped opened some doors for us within our community. We decided this week with all that’s going on in the studio and with each team that an open forum during studio time would […]
HEYO! Our studio has been extra busy this week, discussing print material that will help us as a studio as well as when we interact with others, especially potential community partners. The Media & Marketing Team has been taking the lead on a lot of these tools, using the brand guide they’ve developed. From business […]
HEYO! A month into our DFA meetings now, and we’re really starting to get a groove going. We did our weekly check-in with everyone, which then led us into team updates. A lot of great work is getting done: the Media team’s brand guide is looking great, Outreach is connecting with community organizations like the […]
HEYO! How are you doing today? In our meetings, we’ve started off by checking in with everyone. We know how stressful life can be so it’s important to be mindful of each other and not be scared to share the hard stuff, especially with our focus being on mental health. With that in mind, our […]
We were fortunate enough to visit a Mental Health Night at Midnight Middle School in San Marcos, TX. Jessica from N.A.M.I. (National Alliance on Mental Illness) gave us an informative presentation over how we can approach mental health with children, and helped educate us, the parents in attendance, as well as the students who were […]
HEYO! This week’s DFA meeting was full of information and project work. The big idea this week was catching up with the secondary research and our interviews we all completed. To do this, we individually jotted down outcomes & conclusions on post-it notes, and then shared them with the rest of the studio, looking for […]
HEYO! With our spirits high and energized from Monday’s Design Sprint, we settle in by assigning roles within our teams. After delegating responsibilities, we buckled down to get a run-down of some of the secondary research our leadership group had kindly started beforehand.For these first couple of weeks we will be conducting general and specific […]
HEYO! The TX State DFA team met for the first time of the new semester for the Design Sprint, which was lead by Kelly & Alden from the DFA Nationals Team. The Design Sprint was set up for us to use design innovation skills, generate workable solutions, and exemplify core values of human centered design. […]