Challenge and Selection

I had a major drawback in my lifestyle as I couldn’t wake up early in the morning. My alarm  rings continuously but I have a bad habit of laziness and therefore, I always put my alarm on  snooze mode. Due to this reason, my whole schedule is affected and my health indirectly gets  affected. I then, understood and observed that this is not only my problem as an individual but  there are many others who have a difficulty in waking up early in the morning. I used the  visualisation tool to analyse the data on the behaviour of people and how their lifestyle is  getting affected. This became one of my biggest challenges and being an software developer,  I wanted to develop an application that can address these problems at large scale by having  face to face conversations with the people regarding their problem and analysed the useful  insights of this grave issue that this problem mainly triggers people of the age group of 15- 50  years who become independent and self-sufficient since the children below 15 years can woke  up by some physical or external force.

Application

I first followed the first step of design thinking of what is analysis that is, collection of useful  insights of data from the external environment. I analysed how this problem is spread among  large scale and what changes have caused in the lifestyle of the people. Then I moved to the  next step that is what if analysis i.e generating ideas of tackling this problem. In this stage, the  brainstorming was required to think beyond the limit. I started to think how can a person can  wake up without the use of mobile phones , or alarm clocks. I visualised with a group of my  team and took their suggestions and ideas. This was the stage where the visualisation took place  of many thinkers and they came up with some good ideas. One viewed a generation of a mobile  app in which a person would ring the bell of the house, other viewed of increasing the intensity  of sound of alarm, or connecting different smartphones to create unison of sound. One member  came up with an amazing idea that a person who sets an alarm will select the nearest person  who will be called in the morning as a wake up call so that he or she could assist you to wake  up. The app will also provide the connection of all the music devices in the house and would  create a unison of sound. We called this app GetGoing which provided these two options Then  we compared this idea and its application in the reality where the product was experimented  among different group of people who varies in the age group. Learning launch as a tool of  design thinking was used by our team to extract the views and opinions of the potential  customers regarding the new application. We received a good response from the customers and  this application was again tested among the group of experts of innovative thinkers.

Insights and Approach

This experience was immeasurable as I learned how this app could be billion dollar idea and if  it is not successful enough then it could be kept as an inventory or can be modified enough to  become a good idea which would create value for the customers. We majorly used the learning  launch tool which are the tools of deign thinking and innovation and this has helped me to  develop the product according to the needs of the customers. There was more than one insights  while developing the product as I recognized that the product giving two options will help both

the youngsters and the senior citizens in waking up early in the morning. The first option in the  product will help the senior citizens to wake up as they would be assisted by the other members  in the family and the second option in the product will help the youngsters to wake up as they  would be infused and motivated in waking up in the morning. This product will address the  problems of people who are classified into their age groups.

Next time, I would use various other tools of design thinking for creating a prototype of the  product before launching the actual product although the product is creating a good response  in the market. This would avoid glitches and failures of ideas.


Challenge and Selection I had a major drawback in my lifestyle as I could n’t wake up early in the morning . My alarm rings continuously but I have a bad habit of laziness and therefore , I always put my alarm on snooze mode . Due to this reason , my whole schedule is affected and my health indirectly gets affected . I then , understood and observed that this is not only my problem as an individual but there are many others who have a difficulty in waking up early in the morning . I used the visualisation tool to analyse the data on the behaviour of people and how their lifestyle is getting affected . This became one of my biggest challenges and being an software developer , I wanted to develop an application that can address these problems at large scale by having face to face conversations with the people regarding their problem and analysed the useful insights of this grave issue that this problem mainly triggers people of the age group of 15- 50 years who become independent and self - sufficient since the children below 15 years can woke up by some physical or external force . Application I first followed the first step of design thinking of what is analysis that is , collection of useful insights of data from the external environment . I analysed how this problem is spread among large scale and what changes have caused in the lifestyle of the people . Then I moved to the next step that is what if analysis i.e generating ideas of tackling this problem . In this stage , the brainstorming was required to think beyond the limit . I started to think how can a person can wake up without the use of mobile phones , or alarm clocks . I visualised with a group of my team and took their suggestions and ideas . This was the stage where the visualisation took place of many thinkers and they came up with some good ideas . One viewed a generation of a mobile app in which a person would ring the bell of the house , other viewed of increasing the intensity of sound of alarm , or connecting different smartphones to create unison of sound . One member came up with an amazing idea that a person who sets an alarm will select the nearest person who will be called in the morning as a wake up call so that he or she could assist you to wake up . The app will also provide the connection of all the music devices in the house and would create a unison of sound . We called this app GetGoing which provided these two options Then we compared this idea and its application in the reality where the product was experimented among different group of people who varies in the age group . Learning launch as a tool of design thinking was used by our team to extract the views and opinions of the potential customers regarding the new application . We received a good response from the customers and this application was again tested among the group of experts of innovative thinkers . Insights and Approach This experience was immeasurable as I learned how this app could be billion dollar idea and if it is not successful enough then it could be kept as an inventory or can be modified enough to become a good idea which would create value for the customers . We majorly used the learning launch tool which are the tools of deign thinking and innovation and this has helped me to develop the product according to the needs of the customers . There was more than one insights while developing the product as I recognized that the product giving two options will help both the youngsters and the senior citizens in waking up early in the morning . The first option in the product will help the senior citizens to wake up as they would be assisted by the other members in the family and the second option in the product will help the youngsters to wake up as they would be infused and motivated in waking up in the morning . This product will address the problems of people who are classified into their age groups . Next time , I would use various other tools of design thinking for creating a prototype of the product before launching the actual product although the product is creating a good response in the market . This would avoid glitches and failures of ideas .