Week 5: The end of the first diamond

During the past week, we managed to get some good insights that helped us understand what our solution to the problem should include.

After presenting our persona, problem and HMW definitions we got some good feedback and decided that our solution is going to be more personal than social.

After we completed our persona's empathy map, we realized that to find a good solution we need to learn more about decision making and behavioral economics since our problem is focusing mainly on economic need. Our main activity this week was to investigate and read some articles about this subject, we would also like to dive deeper and interview some professionals in this domain to get more insights and inspiration for optional solutions.

Another thing that we discovered is that another group from the Prototype class is working on the same domain and problem as we are and our groups may collaborate and work on a solution that includes both a physical product and an app.

This next week is going to be very exciting for us since we got permission to come and study at the MiLab for the first time this semester. Also, we are thrilled to start the second diamond and think about some solutions to our problem!

Our empathy map: