As a designer with aspirations to work in the field of global development internationally it was an easy choice to pick a field methodology. When working in different countries with different cultures, emerging oneself in this culture and working in the context of the user are essential.

Although the topic in of itself didn’t directly relate to my vision, indirectly it related through the topic of critical design thinking.  Nowadays, designers keep making more advanced and smarter devices and services. But not a lot of them look critically at the products to see if they might have overdone it. While this is highly topical in the field of IoT, it also is an important topic of discussion in the field of global development where all too often designers develop solutions that are too complicated for communities to maintain. This means many of these solution get abandoned and problems remain.