Thank goodness things aren’t that simple. I’m over the burger menu, the double-burger menu, and the burger menu leading to a smaller burger menu. Mainly because every time I think of it, my food delivery bill goes way up.

Before I even got to design a non-food menu on a product, I had to figure out a product. It took a while to figure out what my capstone project was going to be. List after crossed-out list eventually led to taking the same advice I’ve given students over and over: I should take a break. Everyone should take a break. I should build a project about taking breaks.

As it turns out, you can’t build 6 months of work off an assumption alone. That feeling of accomplishment from thinking about doing work wouldn’t cut it. I had a presentation coming up for my mentor; here’s the slide showing my agenda for that meeting:

I assumed (begin Ass of You And Me era) that like myself, most people built their life around responsibilities, and then collapsed in a pile during off hours — if off hours existed. I also assumed that when I suggested others take a break from work, that they benefited from walking around, drinking water, or otherwise not staring at their list of tasks. Again, an assumption doesn’t make a project. Neither does a page full of burger menus. I was still at square one.