This sentence really sticks out to me. I never realized how stories have impacted me into making decisions and this sentence got me thinking back and realizing that I have in fact made multiple decisions based on different "experiences" I had through stories. I think one that everyone and anyone can agree one is about love. Everyone has their first loves and for me, I remember solely relying on all the stores from books, movies, TV shows as my reference for my first ever crush back in middle school. Or even walking into college, there are clips in shows or movies that picture "college life" which gave me a good idea of comparison when I first came into college.

Honestly I was never aware of this fact no matter how many times I have been through TSA screening myself during my entire life. This is quite shocking to hear about but now that I am aware of this information I can see how it could serve bias to people with different gender preferences. Thinking back, I also vividly remember moments when it comes to "tapping someone down" I had male officer pat me down to ensure safety. I don't mind this because I have trust they will take it professionally without crossing boundaries (and thankfully all of them I have encountered were very professional so far) but I am sure that is not the case everywhere and some individuals may be uncomfortable with that. When these gender normativity are embedded in all technologies and basis of all policies, it only makes it harder to create real life changes later on.

I think this is actually a lot of questions that designers miss out. A lot of the times, I find myself using a device or an interface without really sharing the same "goal" with the designer. I had moments where an update of interface created a major inconvenience to me as I personally favored the previous interface better. Or, even sometimes I am not aware of all the design features and end up only utilizing 10% of of the entire program.

I totally agree on how important it is to recognize the main stakeholder and their needs/goals in their problem. However, my question is what if there is multiple? There could always be multiple representatives of stakeholder holding same importance value. Then, in that case would we consider both even though that causes higher chance of risking breakdowns and financial support?

This is actually a very interesting quote that I somewhat knew in the back of my mind but never had someone talk about. I am really curious how designers are able to think about their choice of defaults as there would be so many. I feel like designers are facing many problems that are open to endless options of answers and no matter what they are designing that is the challenge all of designers probably face in every field.

This is something that appears a little surprising to me as this is not something I was aware of. I thought there could be same prototype that consists of multiple design questions but I guess not? But also at the same time, what if there are some prototypes that are able to answer multiple design questions? Would that be possible?

I totally agree with this sentence because for some surveys even as a responder, I feel like the question is somehow swaying me in a certain direction to an answer. For example, when surveys are coming from school, but are not anonymous, I feel guided to say something good or only given certain choices of answer to choose from when I have other things I wish to answer as. But overall I think the idea is that it's really important to focus on creating a place where everyone feels safe and comfortable to truly express themselves.

I think these questions that are listed are all highly valuable questions. The reason why I think that is because I had been put in a lot of situations where I had to solve a problem in some kind of a way and many times I look over these factors. These are the most critical base of the solution process but I think are also very easy to miss and overlook them. Especially for "did anyone try to solve it in the past and fail?", I think this is really a strong question that needs to be pondered on and requires a lot of thinking/research based off other questions like "am I copying other person's solution/method?" "Can I learn out of their failures? Can I try it on my own?" and so on.

I found this statement to be interesting as this is not something I thought of. I always took critiques more as an one way definition so this is a new insight of perspective I am gaining from this reading. However, this got me questioning: If a certain design gets out to the world and gets criticized, would designer always be able to articulate the rationale? If not, is it not consdiered as a feedback coming from a user?

Just my opinion that I want to add on this is a lot of times people do also "steal" by accident. Human brain, we see things in life and some of those things are put in the back of our minds without ourselves even knowing. Then, when put in a situation where I am asked to generate something of similar, those things might come into your mind whether you know it or not.

I totally agree with this stake that the author put out in this paragraph. I think everyone has a chance to be creative but a lot of the times they are suppressed. We as humans set a strong idea of what is "right" and what is "normal" and tends to be anxious, worry, or discipline if it something goes apart from that definition we created in our minds. That applies to kids too. I noticed that some parents are overly worried about their kids' creativity because they only find it weird, which leads to their own connection to possible ADHD, autism, or just any other mental/behavior issues. Then, they try to say "no" to the idea, kids learn that, doesn't learn how to imagine or generate ideas, and parents are disappointed that their kids are not creative as others.

My thoughts behind this part of the reading is powerful. I think this is the center of everything. Even the goals and values, scenarios or whether if it's valid or not doesn't matter if you don't know who you are designing for. Customers/people have different goals, values and scenarios that are valid or not. To find a common ground amongst all the differences and helping to improve on the problem that people agree on is the essential basis of designing.

I think this sentence is very true. As much as there will always be someone that doesn't like an option A, there will always be someone who will love option A. Problems exists because someone doesn't like them and think of it as an obstacle. Just looking at my own life, even if I think of something like needing to go buy groceries during my busy schedule is a problem and stressful to me, stopping by a market on the way home is not a problem at all to my mom. So regarding this logic, I agree with the author when they mentioned how new designs will only improve something but never be able to solve the problem.

This sentence got me instantly thinking how design has so much to do with not only designing and problem solving itself, but the nature of life, morality and philosophy. I think this is really between a lot of art related things. Even in traditional art, I think most art projects are created out of a deep feeling that is intrigued within the artist (this could be a family drama, personal struggles, racism, sexism, anything really they went through). In my opinion, now that design is linking the these deep feelings that are caused in the humans with problem solving, we need to not only consider but really take in morality, nature of life and perspectives into the work.

I agree with some parts regarding this sentence. I totally agree with the part where it indicates how design is problem solving and a way of communicating ideas but, in my opinion the way the author described partially as method of generating ideas and evaluating ideas didn't really make sense to me. I think design = ideas. I think that something branches out of an idea and making to real and accessible is the designing part. Design can easily communicate an idea and deliver more easily accessibility to users for everyone's convenience and problem solving, but I can't really think of a way how design would evaluate ideas. I think we can evaluate a "design" but design itself can't be evaluating an idea.