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As in every big group project, it can be hard to share the same amount of work between all team members but thankfully MIT has taught us how to handle these types of situations. We decided to divide ourselves into smaller task forces, mainly: user outreach, modeling, and web development. I was initially part of the user outreach team, where I spoke with 8 different doctors and 6 possible users (mainly people who were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes). It might not seem so at first, but doing good user research in the initial stage of the development of a new product can be crucial for its success. It was not trivial to find users willing to help us, scheduling interviews and keeping track of all the meetings, or coming up with the right questions in order to get as much information as possible without overwhelming our clients. Thankfully, in the end, I was able to gather very useful information to work with.

 

After reporting my findings, I then joined the modeling team and become the leader of this task force. In particular, I focused on the XY system (similar to the system used in 3D printers to move the filament to any point in a plane). After a lot of prototyping and CADing in Fusion, we were able to make some good progress! We are still making adjustments to the product but our end goal is to have the finalized design and the complete final product by the end of this semester (December 2020). Stay tuned for more updates!! I am so proud of being part of Blue Team!

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