I came into the REDI Lab with a purpose, I knew exactly what I wanted to see at the end and how I wanted to get there. My goal was 
to incorporate the field of Neuroscience and Engineering to my project. I have always had an interest in engineering; when I worked on different small projects I always asked the question of how does this work, trying to make things understood in my mind. For this project I simply knew I had to incorporate my life long passion, along with my newer interest in Neuroscience and the human body. Out of my experience at REDI Lab, I spent my initial time trying to focus on designing a prototype. My initial emphasis was to showcase my creative skills through a field I was interested in. I knew that also had to have a physical showcase because that was what was important about engineering to me, the design and creation of something new.
To get to where I wanted to be, I started by reaching out to all kinds of experts and attempting to learn about the different parts of the field. If I did this my design could better incorporate all the aspects of neuroengineering. As I went through this process and heard from more perspectives and more people, I learned more about the humanity that appears in engineering and that when we design we take on a responsibility to help a group of people. I started to empathize more with the people that were in the field, whether that be the patients themselves or the doctors and engineers who take on the task of designing for the human body.
I stopped thinking of design as something that can be mass produced in a factory, to thinking about it as a process that leads to innovative solutions. The best solutions, ideas, and products come from the stories of the users, and the stories of the people I met 
and the things I learned about them were much more meaningful than the devices I set out to create. My project changed to center around the people – the patients – who I met. When I starting thinking about what my project meant to me, I knew that it was about showing the side of design with the different emotions that often get overlooked. I started interviewing for the impact that different hospitals and innovations had on lives as well as the feelings behind the journey.
