Week #9: Make-through

• I joined a design thinking club back in 2018 I guess. This when I started to understand the methodology behind planning for ideas.

• We used to gather every Tuesday night for 2hrs and start discussing different approaches and breakdown project using design thinking.

• I also used design thinking when I first started working on my startup to define what services we can offer.

• The thing about design thinking that it makes everything clear as water, it helps organize your thoughts and makes you avoid wrong assumptions.

Design thinking club

I am finding a solution to make a cool smart lighting system.

• Step1: My target users are (F/M), age between (25-35).

• Step2: Through the interviews I wanted to get the since of their behavior around the house. So I started asking questions like (tell me about your bed time routine), (how do you enter your house at night), (do you leave lights up during the night?).

• Step3: I conducted 3 interviews with my sister, a married male friend and a married female friend.

• Step4: I found new insights and got like 2 new ideas through the interviews.

• Step5: My users got two main issues (cost & reliability). They were afraid that something like a smart bulb could be expansive comparing to normal bulbs, as well as is it reliable! can it live for one or two years like traditional bulbs.

• Step6: I got my problem statement as follows:

- M/F (21 - 30) [Needs a way to]

- Have a cool lighting system that's controlled without normal switches and still fit in their home (Nagafa, Applika or dressing mirror). [Because]

- They got sick of choosing certain bulbs' colors for some rooms and needs one bulb to serve their need. Tired of turning of the light and sprint to bed before the scary shadow catches them. Enter their home in the night and start touching around to find the bulb switch.

During interviews empathy map

• Step1: I already had some ideas on my own but after the interviews I had to refine them a bit.

• Step2: Inspire from the products my users mentioned during the interviews.

• Step3: I used mind mapping to match the behavior of the users with the features I can add to the product.

• Step4: I could settle on 5 brilliant ideas that can help solve the users' problem.

• Step5: I used bright stars matrix and added (cost & reliability) as my criteria.

• Step6: I picked my final solution as [Normal RGB LED bulb].

Bright stars

• Step1: Create a shape that reflects the traditional bulb and the new system we're using.

• Step2: The body (blue part) is 36mm in diameter and 50mm in height, with fittings inside to hold our electronic boards.

• Step3: There's two boards Microcontroller in the bottom and RGB LED board in the top.

• Step4: There's a top cover made of acrylic to allow the light out.

• Step5: Distance between LED board and the acrylic cover is 10mm to avoid focusing dots.

• Step6: Problems I am aware of that I will need to scale the enclosure to fit the ac-dc converter as it's big in size.

• Understand the basic aspects of human-centered design.

• Apply design thinking methodology to my product.

• Create PCB from DXF.

• Pull PCB from Fusion 360 into Eagle.

• Import PCB from Eagle into Fusion 360.