Selection of an AREA to work on

When the Design Process course started…I was looking for an area on which I can work further throughout the course. 

So I came up with all these:

a) Political System of India

b) Instant house building concept

c) Breastfeeding in public areas

d) Pune Railway Stations

e) Mirrors in washrooms

After few discussions with faculty, I selected the “POLITICAL SYSTEM OF INDIA” to work on.

What Indian Political System seems to me:

Brain Storming

My Brain Storming on "Political System of India":

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Mind Mapping

I categorized the Political System of India in 4 parts on basis of my Brain Storming and mapped the words/notes further to analyse it.

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The colour categorization as shown above is inspired from the colour wheel.
The white box in the middle of the image shows the main problems in Political System of India. 

Analyzing Mind Map

After making a Mind Map, I analysed it to come to some Problem Statements.
This image shows my Analysis on Mind Mapping:

Coming up with Problem Statement

After Analyzing Mind Map, here I come up with 2 Problem Statements to work on.

The first problem statement deals with common people and the second problem statement deals with the election system and party candidates.

Initial Problem Statement

My initial Problem Statement and it analysis by breaking it into questions:

This leads to 2 AIMS:

1) Re-Design Election System

2) Re-Design Electronic Voting Machine

My INITIAL CONTEXT of my Design Process

1. Scenario – a. Brain Storming

                    b. Categorization/Mapping

                    c. Area Selection

2. Problem Statement & Aims

3. Timeline

4. Brief/Summary of the Area

5. Objectives to be Achieved/Vision

6. Strategy formulated to achieve Objectives/Proposed Design Methodology

7. Information – 7.1 Desk Research - a. Preamble

                         b. Present functioning –

                            b.1. Government of India

                            b.2. Division of work in Parliament

                            b.3. Election Commission (EC)

                            b.4. Elections org. by EC

                            b.5. Electoral System

                                                       c. Analysis the all the above 5 functioning

                                                       d. Functioning of USA and Japan

                                                       f. Electronic Voting Machine (EVM)

                                                       e. Cases (apprx. 5-7)

                                                       f. Statistics/Data Collection

                               7.2 Field Research - a. User/Case study (people)

                                                             b. User/Case study (lawyers)

                                                             c. User/ Case study (law students)

                                                             d. User/Case study (candidates/political parties)

                                                             e. User/Case study (govt. officials)

8. Present Situation and Analyzing

9. SWOT Analysis – a. Strength

                             b. Weakness

                             c. Opportunities

                             d. Threats

10. Opportunity Matrix

11. Redefining – 11.1. Brief

                         11.2. Problem Statement

12. Solution Generation

13. Basic Idea – 13.1. Election System

                        13.2. Electronic Voting Machine

14. Validation/Feedback

15. Final Proposal – 15.1. Election System

                              15.2. General Elections 2019

                              15.3. Electronic Voting Machine (EVM)

16. Scope of Improvement