Reflection

We started this process by drawing out on the whiteboard what we missed, what mistakes we made, why we built each preto/prototype, and what we can improve. The highlights from that were that we hadn't been thinking broadly enough and sent our project down the narrow path of being designed for machine shops. We decided that if we could get evidence that people wanted the product for an at-home/consumer product, then we would pivot our target market. 

We then went out and surveyed people with experience in job shops and as hobbyists if they thought the product worked better in one market than the other, and if they would want one for themselves. 

The results were shocking. We found that everyone we talked to thought the product would work better for personal use and that they wanted one themselves. We didn't expect to get results this definitive. We decided to pivot our target market away from machine shops and toward people working in their garages.

Due to this finding, we decided to change a few other minor things. The main one was that when interviewing people, we talked more specifically about people using the product themselves. We also made some design changes based on interview feedback, the main one being implementing a clear tray to allow people to see the contents of the tray even when it is above eye level.

Now we have conducted more interviews specifically about consumer use of the product and their opinions on it in that application. Below we have compiled a video of these interviews and our findings.