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Learn the basics of how to make jam and you’ll be able to make just about any variety of fruit jam imaginable. This is the most challenging exercise of the whole Jam since many participants won’t be confident of their drawing/sketching skills as well as the time pressure factor. As a facilitator, you should ensure them that any sketches are appreciated and encourage them to be as creative as possible. To prepare and make sure we enter Crazy 8's exercise feeling confident and comfortable, the facilitator should give participants 15 minutes to think and write down important notes, features, etc for Crazy 8’s. Based on the list of Q&A above, the Facilitator now asks everyone to write down questions starting with “How Might We” (or HMW for short).
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You absolutely need to select someone on the team to take the role of the moderator; they can join in on the process, but they must focus on making sure discussions don’t break out, as well as keeping time. At first, this might feel weird, but the only way you’re going to see the results of this is to try it for yourself. The freedom of open discussion might seem conducive to creativity, or more informed decision-making, but when it comes to effectiveness and clarity, it’s the enemy. For example, Gooseberries are very high in pectin and low in water, so they’ll set in as little as 5 minutes.
Crazy 8’s: 20 minutes
Now, each team member is given five minutes to write multiple solutions (1 per sticky note) for the HMW—in silence. After four minutes, the moderator will select one person at a time to stand up at the sailboat and very quickly explain each sticky note as they stick them in the top half. The top half (the wind in the sail) represents things that are moving us forward or working well, and the bottom half (the anchor) represents things that are holding us back or not going well.
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To make this exercise worthwhile you’ll need a range of input and opinions, but you don’t want so many people that the logistics of running the exercise get difficult. They’ll require extended cooking, and often the addition of some high pectin citrus juice to set properly. Even still, after as much as an hour of simmering it may only achieve a lose set.
JAM Design can execute the creation of new logos and illustrations or a whole branding package for you. Logos that are created in house are optimized for print and embroidery. We are a family owned business comprised of former teachers, manual laborers, collegiate athletes, artists, and business owners. By using our extensive background experience we pride ourselves in taking the necessary steps to understand each customer and their needs.
Vegetables, and high pH fruits will need added acid to safely preserve them at a pH below 4.6, so be sure to follow a tested recipe. Making jam is incredibly easy these days, and there’s no reason to settle for lack luster grocery store preserves when you can have your own homemade jam bursting with all the flavors of the season. It’s important for the moderator to tell the team members here that we’re aiming for quantity over quality—we’ll keep curating for later steps.
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Sharing your experience helps others make the right decision when searching for a business like this. Currently a freelance UX designer, I have a secondary French education degree and have spent the last five years teaching. In my time as a teacher, I shaped user experiences with a focus on increasing engagement and maximizing achievement. This, in conjunction with my studies at Designlab, is key to my design philosophy.
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We use this principle of eliminating open discussion in almost everything we do at AJ&Smart. From designing new product features to planning events or improving our office space. Once all these solutions are written up, your team will have actionable tasks that can be committed to. The first step should be the most frictionless step, which can be done immediately and will motivate the team to get started. Remember, these actions steps shouldn’t outline the entire solution—only a small version of an initial test to validate if the idea will work. “Effort” is how much time and energy we think it will take to implement, and “impact” is the degree to which we think it would solve our problem.
Wait Time + Intro: 5 minutes
A good guiding principle is that the action steps to test out the idea should be able to be completed in a timeframe of 1-2 weeks. Once the 5 minutes are up, everybody sticks their ideas on the surface (wall, whiteboard, whatever) as fast as possible, ideally within one minute. People should write one note per sticky note and pile them up in front of them as they’re writing. Pomona’s pectin often requires a specific recipe, as it’s trickier to get the proportions right. They’re not safe for canning (even if the recipe tells you otherwise), and they have a very different texture than a true pectin thickened jam.
Encourage the team to try and write down as many problems as possible. Start by drawing a sailboat on a whiteboard with a water line halfway down, a billowing sail, and an anchor that hangs down below the water. Our mission is to bring you affordable natural living options that keeps our customers, and community at the heart of everything we do. Whether you are looking for a gift, or special occasion it is a gesture of emotion from the heart and signifies feeling with love and compassion to tell the story. We are a Female run company with 3 Generations of creators and designers and Mr. JAM working behind the scenes.
If you are doing one 3-hour session, consider giving participants two 10 to 15 minutes breaks minimum. Design Jams are fun, but it’s also a lot of thinking and processing for everyone. Since we are all working from home and we also work with some designers in Brazil, our Design Jams are 100% online using Google Meet. JAM Design Apparel has been involved in designing logos, custom apparel, and custom products for over 20 years. In this book, you’ll learn how to put the thinking-based framework popularized by the Stanford d.school into practice so you can take on challenges in your organization and reach insightful solutions. As we mentioned before, creative problem solving is the core of design, so give it the respect it deserves and cut out the wasteful, demoralizing, fatigue-inducing discussion.
The passion of JAM Designs as a family-owned business reflects in the elegant craftsmanship, paired with inspired original designs. All participants will spend the next 20 minutes coming up with 8 different sketches based on their notes and their findings from the previous exercise. We bring faux foliage to life, pulling inspiration from the natural world, art, and Southern hospitality to create beautiful medleys of florals and greenery for home, church, and business.
The moderator gives each member 3 sticky dots, and everybody must now vote on the challenges they consider to be the most urgent to solve, without discussion. People can vote on their own sticky notes and can put more than one dot on a challenge if they feel strongly about it. This simple process works for high and moderate pectin fruits, but you may have trouble setting very low pectin fruits including blueberries and strawberries. Jam is usually a fruit based preserve, but you can also make it with certain vegetables. Carrot cake jam is absolutely delicious, as is rhubarb jam, and I’ve even made a zucchini jam.
At JAM design group, it all starts from a place of passion and love ... We believe incollaborating with clients to ensure our design concepts balance with reasonand purpose. We have expanded our scope of designs, and we now create and design with Sterling Silver, Gold filled (Gold Vermeil). Every design tells a story, we are here to make your story come true and to be just as beautiful as you are, and the journey it took to get here. Over the Years JAM Designs has become a household name and seeing people all over the world enjoying their unique one-of-a-kind creations.
The moderator needs to be very proactive at this step, as it is the only one that has a tendency to open up discussion. The moderator will now take each solution one by one and add them to the effort/impact scale. Now that you have a list of solutions that should solve the most important problem/s, it’s important to know how much effort is required to execute the solutions. Now, the moderator is going to rewrite the top-voted problem in the form of a challenge to help bring out solutions from all team members. The times we’ve suggested in the exercise are more of a guideline and may only be relevant to the first time you run through it. For larger groups (or tackling multiple problems) all the steps can take up to 1.5 hours.
