My team and I had been building a comic book, and the day of the presentation finally arrived. Everything we had worked for over a couple of months had come to fulfillment. We went through a lot of disagreements throughout the project because everyone had their own ideas, and we ended up with different ideas for the comic. I am very glad that we managed to put our differences aside for the sake of our project and created an amazing comic book to raise awareness against abuse. Personally, I was very nervous and overwhelmed that we had finally completed our project.

One of the challenges that we faced was that we fell behind our project because we took a lot of time to agree on things. As noted by Häggman, Honda and Yang (2013), time is a very important resource in the prototyping process. In our case, we had a very short time to complete the comic book. I would say that we utilized the time we had efficiently, and therefore, we came up with a quality product. In future situations, I would prefer having more time because making creative products needs a lengthy process of inquiry, investigation, and experimentation. Time is therefore a useful resource for creativity.

Having spent a lot of time, the design thinking concept that we have learnt in class gave us a better perspective about entrepreneurship, and therefore made our work easier and faster. According to von Thienen, et al. (2018), design thinking is a process by which innovation of products and services occurs through inquiry and creativity.  I actually came to understand the practical perspective of design thinking through the shoe day last Friday, where we conducted an “investigation”, came back with stories, created a prototype, and then made the presentation as a team. It is such an approach that helped us in completing our comic book, titled Hey You. 

On the day of the presentation, we all decided to wear matching clothes to represent our brand. We handed out a copy to every judge and our lecturer to peruse before we started. The presentation had a time limit of 6 minutes, which implied that we would lose some marks if we took more time. We had practised and rehearsed the presentation so many times that we were able to finish the presentation on time. The judges gave some positive comments, and a lot of feedback on how to improve our comic. We found the comments and feedback very useful.

This whole experience has been a valuable learning kerb for me. I have previously worked in groups in my undergraduate course, where I pursued Events Management. However, the mixing of theory with practical activities in this course cannot be compared to anything I did before. In our project, we had to create something from scratch with people we barely knew at the time, which was quite challenging, but gave us very important lessons. I now feel that I am a better entrepreneur, with the necessary knowledge and skills to innovate products and services.