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1. Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Learn from Failure
● Innate part of process
● Prototypes
● Experimentation
● Scientific Method designed to learn from failure
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2. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Learn from Failure
● Must be comfortable with failure
○ Inevitable
● Failure may be more valuable than success
○ Growth
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Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World

3. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Learn from Failure
The 4 Keys to Learning from Failure
1. Planning
2. Preparation
3. Execution
4. Variables in control
Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/learning-from-failure_b_4037147
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Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World

4. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Learn from Failure
● Remove failure from implementation
○ Frequently experimenting
○ Opportunity to learn and adapt
● Be successful in the end
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Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World

5. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Learn from Failure
“Don’t think of it as failure, think of it as designing experiments through
which you’re going to learn.”
-Tim Brown
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Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World

6. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Creative Confidence
https://www.designkit.org/mindsets/3
What is it?
● Creativity lives within everyone
● It’s the way of approaching the world
● Used to deal with everyday scenarios
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Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World

7. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Creative Confidence
Why do we lack it?
● Fear
○ “If you’re not confident you have some fear that’s blocking you
from being confident”
● We tend not to go off course to stay safe
Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World

8. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Creative Confidence
Why is it important?
● It’s what human-centered designers rely on
when making decisions
● With it, you can and will come up with creative
solutions to big problems
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Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World

9. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Creative Confidence
How can we achieve it?
● Start with small changes, baby steps
● Put your all into everything you do
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Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World

10. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Creative Confidence
● If you have creative confidence then you have more
stick-to-itiveness, you try more things, take different paths
● You become fearless in the face of failure, which leads to
routine innovation
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Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World

11. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Vroom
What is Vroom?
● An App to help parents become great parents
● Vroom provides science based tips and tools to inspire
families to turn shared, moments into “brain
building” moments
Vroom.org
Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World
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12. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Vroom
What is Vroom’s goal?
● Inspired by visiting low income families and conducting
interviews with parents vroom learned that during the
first five years of life, this is the most active period
for brain development
● Vrooms goal is to create a strong foundation for
lifelong learning in the first five years of life
Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World
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13. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Vroom
Who is Vroom for?
● Vroom is for Everyone
● Community based health clinics
● Children’s Museum’s
● Refugee Camps
Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World
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14. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Vroom
Why do we need Vroom?
● Creates a safe space for parents to learn tips about
early childhood development
● The app allows parents or caregivers who wouldn’t
normally have the time to do nightly readings, or play
dates a chance to bond with their child
● Vroom influences behavior in parents and raises the
value of positive interaction with babies
Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World
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15. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Vroom
Some tips on Vroom may include
● Playing Hide and Seek with your kid and try saying
“Nobody’s here” when you don’t see them then have them
show you where they are and say “there you are!”
○ Hide and Seek games helps your child explore when
people are present or when they're absent
● Try saying little phrases to your child such as “Hello” a
few times a day directly to them
Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World
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16. Kat Arenas, Julia Coyle, Kayla Drumgo
Thank You
Failure and Creative Confidence Applied to the Real World