Looking forward, I want to gain a better understanding of design's relationship with business, therefore I want to take up the elective ‘Introduction to business Design’. This is because, I know that you need to understand business for your products to actually reach the people that you have designed them for. There is no point having a brilliant healthcare innovation if it’s not affordable, you don’t know how to market it the product and you don’t understand the legal constraints in starting a business in that field. This will allow for me to step closer towards my vision of an equitable society, as it will provide me with the skills needed to reach underrepresented groups within society.

Speaking of my vision, I would also like to take the elective ‘Intercultural design’ so that I can gain a wider knowledge of different cultures, the people within them and how to design for them. By doing this, I will be able to reach a more diverse set of people with the designs I create. 

I also want to continue to improve my sketching skills as I set out to do in my Personal Development Plan. Although I have improved, I am aware that this is still one of my weakest areas and without practice I will not improve further. Therefore, I challenge myself to create at least 3 sketches for Project 2 and Project 3 that I am confident enough in to add to the group report for these projects. 

Overall, I want to improve my toolkit of skills so that I have the best opportunity of reaching my vision of an equitable society. I would like to be able to not only create designs that can help everyone, but also designs that raise the people most in need out of the shadows.