Element C: PRESENTATION AND JUSTIFICATION OF SOLUTION DESIGN REQUIREMENTS

Introduction

Design specifications, constraints, and parameters were determined through the data we gathered from our audience (90+) and our own personal experiences. For our design specifications, we use mainly our audience to decide the priority of our top 5 but we used some of our assessments and decided that there needs to be a change in order for it to be more effective and successful. Furthermore, for the constraints and parameters, we mainly wanted to use our own experiences and evaluation to decide how we would want to make it to make it appealing to the audience, how it needs to be made in order to fit all buyers -- flexible, small, comfortable, efficient, long-lasting, and more.

Primary Stakeholders

Users:

• Athletes

• Gym Members

Buyers:

• Parents

• Athletes

• Gym Members

Sellers:

• Dick's

• Big 5

• Amazon

• Walmart/Target/Best Buy

• Nike

• Online Gym Websites

Manufacturers:

• Self-manufactured

• Thermoelectric Companies

Market Research

For our market research we did a survey for athletes and gym members, but unfortunately we didn't get to promote our survey to gyms. Luckily, we still managed to get around 95 responses from athletes that either play sports or are in athletic clubs.

Example of Market Research Results:

With this chart, we asked our audience to rank our top 5 priority from 1-5 (1 meaning not very important to 5 meaning very important). With this data, we realized that our most important priority should be efficiency and comfortableness while we shouldn't worry too much about the size and price, but ultimately have the main focus on creating the product that would be usable to its full potential.

Furthermore of our prior data regarding to our top 5 priority, this data helps give a better understanding our how effective our product would need to be in order to charge devices while our audience are doing their physical activities. It could also give them motivation to put more time and/effort so that they can harness the energy.

Design Specifications:

1. Efficiency

2. Ergonomic

3. Lightweight

4. Low Cost

5. Durability

We believe that our audience ranks the 5 priority efficiently, but when it ultimately comes to the time where it is made, low cost and the product being lightweight would matter more. The durability wouldn't matter as much it would be a wearable and/or flexible device that has a long life-cycle which the factor of durability is not a huge priority.

Benchmarks:

How will you know if your product is successful?

We will know if our product is successful by if it follows our design specifications, constraints, parameters. We want to prioritize it being wearable for all, being efficient enough to charge a phone, being affordable to all while having a long lasting use time, and being comfortable and appealing to our audience. It definitely be successful to its full potential when people use it rather/more than portable chargers to charge their devices.