Don't worry, there's enough material out in the world that I'm not resorting to listing my meals. It was actually because of my Prototyping Methods class. This is the last week of our "A" session so our class got to take a field trip. I love field trips!
My all-time favorite was a trip in 3rd or 4th grade to some predecessor of today's IMAX theaters out around State Fair Park in Dallas. Today's class trip probably topped that, although my elementary school crush, Patrice Surley, wasn't there this time.
Anyway, we visited McDonald's innovation center, including a tour by the operations manager and a Q&A at the end with Denis Weil, vice president of innovation and concept development. Denis is an ID alum and will be co-teaching a Service Design class I'm taking in "B" session.
It was an incredible opportunity and generated some great discussion around prototyping and design processes. I won't say more about the innards, lest my grade suffers next quarter, but it's a cool example of the kind of real-world experiences we get exposed to here.
And then to top it off, we got free lunch - I landed chicken selects, fries and a Diet Coke. It's getting around dinner time as I write this and I'm kinda wishing ID had an alum working innovation at Ruth's Chris right now.
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