My overall experience in this course has been that of learning new things and learning those new things in newer ways. The Jump workshops may be mainly responsible for that. I think the Jump workshops were very interesting and contributed a lot to my understanding of the process of thinking, brainstorming, and then brainstorming more and ideation, and then finally developing the product.
I think a very important part of the learning process was also that we were a collaborated class of business and art. So we had more room to develop ideas on a broader aspect. And one of the most contributing factors to the learning was the collaboration of the business and the arts classes. I think it came into play a lot when we had to device the business plan for our group project. The business concept that we needed to develop along with the revenue model and other business aspects which needed the business person on the group to take lead and direct our plans.
My group members and I had to dedicate so much time to this class and the group project that it almost felt like we were really in the process of developing a business that would go on floor come the end of the semester. The experience of planning a business was especially useful for me as an artist and a designer. It gave me a fairly thorough idea of all the aspects and ideas involved in the process of developing a business. As a designer, I hope to do some freelance work and that leads me to think that it is nothing less than a business. It involves all of the aspects of business only that most of the different roles are carried out by the same person.
I think this experience will help me determine a better plan for my freelance career.
In general the experience in class was that of learning things in a way different than we are used to. I liked that experience. No doubt, that at times we wanted it to be the traditional way and know what to expect when but then this was more fun although it was a lot more work than a regular class.