F - Design Viability

Design Feedback

After discussing the design with stakeholders I received important feedback that I will impliment into my product. 

Questions:

• What do you enjoy about gardening?

  • What specific tasks do you have to perform that you wish could be automated.

• What specific features would you like to see in a roomba like product for your garden.

Takeaways.

• Useful for people with physical disabilities like arthritis

  • People with Arthritis which makes it difficult to garden, despite enjoying growing flowers. 

  • important market

• Weeding is an important goal, because thats what a lot of monotonous time is spent doing.

• A large number of people using this product will not be technically inclined. 

Reflective Questions:

• How do I/we show evidence that the proposed design has merit beyond the classroom or lab as a real solution?

• How can I/we show evidence that the design could realistically get into the hands of the people the design is trying to help in a sustainable way?

• What evidence would I/we have to offer to honestly ask a family to invest their life savings in this idea?

• (NOTE: Please remember this is not information related to making a profit off of your idea in the stereotypical sense, but rather about if the idea has any chance of succeeding as a real solution. An idea to help very poor areas gain access to clean water is indeed a real problem to solve but not likely one that is about making a financial profit. It should be noted that even the most openly giving and caring of non-profit organizations will not invest their resources in any idea that has no plan for getting the solution working at the source of the problem in a sustainable way.

Include:

• Market analysis – who are your competitors? How much do current solutions cost? How much will consumers pay? How does your product fit in?

• Detail the important aspects of your team’s marketplace study. How can you be reasonably certain that if you solve the problem, a need and/or demand for the solution will exists? Who will buy your product? Why will they bother to try it?

• How will your product be manufactured and distributed? Is this reasonable?

• Citations

MARKET ANALYSIS

Competitors:

Cost of Current Solutions:

Chart 1: List question asked to prove how much consumers are willing to pay

VIABILITY ANALYSIS

Chart 2: List question asked to prove how much consumers really want this product

CONCLUSION:

PROPOSED MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION

• How will your product be manufactured and distributed? Is this reasonable?

CITATIONS

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