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<aside> 🌓 We've made it of our first mission, launching into our space hero journey. Let's group up on the dark side of the moon and branch out to observe locals in their natural habitat.
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Alas! Missions can be lonely. For some, isolation is torture. At least we have our squads to keep us together. With our training underway, a virtual basecamp is needed as a potential meeting space for training. Choose a simulation to explore and evaluate.
This side quest is a set of activities that will give you practice before jumping head-first into our next project. In the vein of this learning unit, we'll be focusing on usability and testing. The goal of this side mission is to evaluate virtual social experiences (and also maybe to have some fun).
<aside> ⚠️ Warning: Do not skip steps or jump ahead.
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Before starting with the world (to the right), work with your crew to review each and decide:
Please choose between the following worlds to investigate:
Once everyone has done this and you’ve documented the technical requirements, narrow down and choose one to ensure everyone can follow along. After you’ve decided on your virtual world, document and assess the signup, download, and any processes needed to get going. Work together to review and assess whether the world would be adequate for housing virtual huddles—rather, discuss if hypothetically you would want to use this. Once this is done, you can move into the tasks and instructions below.
<aside> 🤨 Second Warning: I know you're tempted to skip ahead...don't do it. Make sure you've used this time to reflect as a crew, discuss and make a decision before moving on.
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Before you wrap for the week, review the work from the past two weeks on your squad Miro board. By now, you should have looked into the problem space and identified a problem statement. A great next step would be to reframe the problem into How Might We statements.
By the end of next week, you'll want to have some possible ideas of solutions. Use your judgement and assess team energy. If you can, take 30 or so minutes to run through one or two ideation activities. You may want to try the Mash-up Method or Opposite Thinking. The goal is to start thinking about possible solutions to the problem stated. If instead you want to put off coming up with solutions, you could try the 5 Whys to drill into the problem further, or break and think about solutions, or research alternative or comparable existing solutions on your own.