I always get excited about jumping into solutions without fully understanding what the problem is. For example, if I have an assignment to design something, I often find myself jumping into different solutions instead of focusing on what matters the most. The reading explains well the importance of understanding patterns, knowing the causes and consequences, and identifying what can be changed which I believe greatly contributes to effectively understanding a problem and provides knowledge for reaching our goal.

I believe it’s very challenging to understand the needs of users because one person might see something as a problem, while another might see it as something simple that doesn’t affect them. This has always been a question for me, and this part of the article helped me better understand how to overcome this as a designer. Based on the reading understanding a problem is far beyond just than focusing on specific group its about understanding things like who is my user and why are they experience it and what kind of solution do they need. I completely agree with the article that communication is a key, not just in verbal way but also paying attention to the users behavior and the problem through their action.

I agree about with the idea of bricolage, it got me thinking about how college classrooms are designed, specifically UW classrooms, where students from different backgrounds, life experiences, and cultures come together, bringing different unique characteristics and knowledge, creating a new learning environment, it's like designing a classroom from many unique parts, just like bricolage. Additionally, this reminds me of how AI, like ChatGPT, gave the idea to design other new AI's that can draw, create pictures, and do other things. It shows how new things are born when we mix different ideas together.