Week 1: Who I Am, What I Build, and Why It Matters
Introduction, skills background, and early capstone direction
DES303 DESIGN JOURNEY
Weekly reflections documenting my design thinking, experiments, and capstone direction through DES303.
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Week 2: Preparing My Tech Demo — "Start Your Startup"
Choosing a topic, research, and presentation preparation
Week 3: Delivering the Demo & Reflecting on Peers
Presenting, receiving feedback, and learning from peer demos
Week 4: Scoping the Brief, Reframing "Future," and Grounding My First Design Direction
Brief scoping, reverse brief, early research, ideation, and Experiment 1 planning
Week 5: Turning Tickers into a Running Prototype Through Arena Design, Focus Integrity, and Cross-Device Testing
Visual precedents, arena flow, cross-device architecture, Flutter + Django build, and TestFlight testing
Week 6: User Testing, Trust Problems, and Reframing Focus Integrity
User testing, critique feedback, reliability fixes, and the shift toward trustworthy Focus Integrity
Week 7: Testing Focus Integrity With Users - Fairness, Privacy, and Trust
Using model comparison as a research instrument to test fairness, privacy, explanation, and trust
Week 8: From Focus Detector to AI Senior
B2B SaaS planning, AI auto-delegation, SOP generation, and the speculative pivot to AI as work authority
Week 9: Crit 2 and Reframing Ticker Around Task-Aligned Verification
Post-crit reflections, defining the gap against Motion, and pivoting from 'AI boss' to conversational AI senior
Week 10: Developing the Living AI Senior and Planning Ticker Cube
Desktop AI senior validation, privacy controls, local model testing, and the physical Ticker Cube direction