After putting our ideas out into the world, it was time to set new goals and manage our expectations for the future. This means: killing some of our ideas (R.I.P Battery Lifesaver and Spare Phone), thinking about a business case, and coming up with a concrete new prototype for this sprint. Part of this process was doing a workshop in business or in Rinke’s words: “What is your added value?” (example of added value: value of a drill is having a painting on the wall).
The workshop made us think about the added value of our concepts, and made us think about assumptions we made earlier in the process as well: are people actually waiting for a pickup service for old phones? After reconsidering the concepts and taking half a day to brainstorm we came up with a new version for a prototype. Earlier we discussed with India that it would be great to create two websites that have overlap (overlap in style, and functionalities), with this promise and our prototypes in mind we came up with a product: a combination of our different prototypes: iSeeThrough 2.0.
The website combines the awareness and educational aspect of iSeeThrough 1.0, with the donation and recycling aspect of Redrawer. The new wireframe we drew out on the board would become the basis of our new prototype. There are two parties who are willing to talk about our project and see how our ideas can fit their organization: Eeko and Sims Recycling solutions; both have an extensive recycling infrastructure, and our awareness raising service could be of value to their company.
The first version of iSeeThrough, with the ‘transparant screen’ feature.
Besides rearranging our ideas into something new, there is some user research to be done. Joan created a survey that simulates our interactions on the website. By the end of this sprint we will know more about how people respond to donating old phones to charity, and their willingness around this feature.
The new pitches are getting closer, we’re translating our iSeeThrough version 2.0 into a new prototype and having close contact with Bangalore. By doing so we can actually start talking about how to match our two concepts in the next sprints. In the last period we’ll really put the Design Across Cultures to the test: we will do our best to make a relevant website in close collaboration with India!