# Medium Mashup Welcome to Medium Mashup. Medium mashup is an Innovation Game where you invent a new tool to solve a specific persona's problem using randomly selected mediums and notations. The purpose of medium mashup is to help you move beyond features of a software tool to the underlying mediums and notations. ## The Setup You're a toolsmith. You specialize in building bespoke tools for specialized use cases with arbitrary constraints. You operate as a team under tight timelines, and you (almost) always deliver. I hope you're up for today's challenge! 1. **Gather materials.** You'll need the typical paper prototyping materials: unlined and grid paper, multi-colored sharpies, sticky notes, scissors, tape, highlighters, rulers. 2. **Form a team.** We recommend a team of 3-5 persons. 3. **Discover the constraints.** Draw 3 Medium and/or Notation cards from the Constraints deck. If you want to make it a bit easier, draw 4 cards and discard 1. 4. **Get to know the client.** Draw a Persona card. Read their background. 5. **Choose a Workflow Goal.** Read the client's Workflow Goals aloud together and discuss. Choose one of the Workflow Goals that your team will build a tool for. 6. **Start building!** You and your team have 90 minutes to design a new Tool that satisfies one of your Client's Workflow Goals while utilizing all of the Constraints. 7. **Present the solution.** Give a brief (5-10 minutes?) presentation walking through the tool that your team came up with. Describe the workflow in detail. ## Advice for Presenting The Solution Here are some questions you might want to answer: - What did you choose to include and why? - What did you leave out? - What did you learn about the interactions of the constraints you were given (the mediums and/or notations)? ## Feedback ![[attachments/Medium Mashup/Daily Logs - Current (dragged).pdf]] ![[Pasted image 20230104144258.png]]