Last Wednesday we had a peer pitch at the MediaLAB, which gave us an opportunity to share our project with the other groups, as well as hearing about their projects and get inspired by some of their ideas and methods.
After presenting our project to our peers and their coaches we got some very good feedback. We have been struggling with narrowing down our project and we have kept all doors open, but maybe it is time to make some decisions, narrow down our project, and focus on one or two concepts using modern technology, not futuristic technology.
The day following the peer presentation we had a workshop with the great Charlie Mulholland, who helped us with idea selection and how to make the right decisions. Once again a very helpful workshop, that resulted in us making some requirements for our concept that will make the decision process easier, and also helped us to decide on one idea we’re going to work on next week.
We also learned that maybe we haven’t focused as much on the user as we should, mostly we have been focusing on which technological inventions we should use, instead of researching what the user need and want. Therefor we have planed to spend a few days where some team members will focus on researching the user.
It was very interesting to get feedback from our peers, as well as hear about their project, and the problems they are facing.