This year in XLab, we partnered with the Idaho Transportation department to try and improve traffic safety.
My team, made up of Arielle, Avary, Jackson, and myself, created a group within this to focus on biking.
I think that we work together as a team quite well, however all of us struggle to stay focused on an assignment for long periods of time. We also tend to get distracted from doing the work and instead focus on small aspects that don't entirely matter. I do feel we are growing in this, however.
My team isn't entirely sure what aspects of biking we can improve the safety of. We are bikers ourselves and know that biking in Boise can at least feel quite unsafe at times, however all of our research does not agree.
I think our most powerful part so far was Peeps on the Street. We knew that we didn't have much data available to support us, but we felt passionate about our cause. This ended up making us use a very short amount of our time at Peeps to present ourselves and our question, but spent most of it like an empathy interview. Our focus was gain info.
We think it went well. We had almost 2 full pages of insights and new opinions that the Peeps told us, with a general consensus that confirmed our viewpoint: biking in Boise is scary.