Setting myself a challange

Clear aims

Clear aims

I want to get children to play with my chocolate spinning tops as soon as possible so that I can gather feedback and improve on my design.

So I plan to make 50 of them individually wrapped and labelled by Sunday 16th October, ready to hand out to tutors with children on Monday.  Hopefully setting a clear aim will allow me to experience flow too. 

Psychologist and author of 'The psychology of flow' Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, talks in his book about the importance of having clear goals for experiencing flow (the state of consciousness where time seems to disappear and one is lost in the challenges and rewards of an activity for its own sake). 

I would like to give people the tools to record their own experiences. This is a research method known as cultural probes.