I ran the design studio by myself as I did not have time to pull people together and I wanted to make sure I was staying focused on moving my project forwards. I would definitely go through this exercise again and next time will hopefully have more time to be able to pull some people together to do a group design studio.
Even as a solo experience however I found it to be surprisingly helpful as I had never done this kind of brainstorming - in the past I have taken a much broader starting concept and let myself run with it but in this case having the specific problem statement to react against meant that the overall experience was also a lot more focused.
The first round enabled me to work through the more obvious ideas that cropped up in my head so that I could push forward to the more interesting ones. When I analysed my results I realised that what fit the problem statement best and seemed most useful are to enable different methods for inputting the current food situation and then showing several different approaches to food prepping.
