Chan’s Blog

This week’s content byte focuses on the importance of soft skills particularly in the tech field. Hard skills are important but soft skills are just as important. Alexander Lyon mentions hard skills are technical skills that pertain to your specific job title while soft skills are more general and can be used in just about any job (Lyon, 2021). Some soft skills as Alison Doyle of Liveabout.com are Communication, Creativity, Determination, Flexibility, Leadership, Negotiation, and Presentation (Doyle, A.,2021). All these skills are important when in the working world in general, I never really looked at the tech field as a social field which initially drew me to the occupation. Not to say I am not a social individual as I am naturally friendly, I can do small talk and be relative. One quality that I feel people struggle with is communication, I find myself struggling at times because I know what I want to express but putting it in words tends to be the hard part. Many people believe t...

This week’s content byte focused on human-centered design. “Human-centered design is a creative approach to problem-solving one that starts with people and ends with innovative solutions tailored to meet their needs (IDEO.org, 2015)” I feel very connected particularly this week because for our final project we were tasked to think of ideas and my group and myself came up with a Costco parking device/app. We as consumers thought of some issues that many people have encountered and came up with a way to hopefully be beneficial to consumers and the environment. We were able to acknowledge an issue and then create a prototype which now can be sent to the community for testing phases to refine the prototype (Devex, 2016). The outcome of cutting waste mentioned in the Devex video would be exemplified in our project as it would use solar-powered panels to conserve energy and auto shut off to further benefit the users and environment (Devex, 2016). The steps expressed in both videos reminde...