Quote of the week: “Manuel and Clara should become designers!” – Mascha
We followed our plan and started the week with video production.
After we discarded the first draft, we decided to create a fancy animated clip. The video should make it easy to understand what we want to achieve with the product. We created an English and German version. With the video, we want to inform people before we interview them.
It is also the cornerstone for a version aimed at experts. We think that with a video we can bring people closer to our topic faster and easier. Thursday we presented our video.
Here is the English version of our clip. We are happy about likes, wonders and wishes! 😉
Later on, we presented our video and got an introduction to system thinking. Full of energy we met on Sunday morning to scribble our System-Thinking Map on three whiteboards.
Starting point of our map was the Stakeholder map we worked out a few weeks ago. We made connections and links between different levels that could be influenced by our project. We also took into account external feedback that could influence our invention. The map is large but probably far from complete. If you find our blind spots please write us a comment!
Mascha and Clara have made clear the need for a system like ComImmunity with a nasty cold… Flooded with medicine and vitamin cocktails, they have started to get involved in social work and renovated inno.space… The perfect time call it a day.
Dear team clash,
congrats to your very nice explain video. Also as mentioned last week the complexity of your system map is really impressive. Funny to see both on the same page, because they show the huge contrast between an easy to understand explanation (in the film) and a very complex problem with a lot of dependencies (as visible in the systems map). It will be the challenge of your next iterations and interviews to always hit the right level of detail when talking to experts or users. So my hint: always ask yourself before your go out and have an interview, what might be the appropriate level of abstraction for your interview partner. For example, a biologist might misunderstand the film als oversimplification, with him or her you better talk about one arrow in your system map. Whereas if you talk to a potential patient the video has the right level of abstraction.
As you have a real moonshot project (timeframe 2050) I see two important next steps for you 1) investigating some of the “black boxes” of your solution, this will support getting credibility 2) bring it down to something very concrete: e.g. concrete diseases that could be prevented in the near future (so not curing all infections at once) or specific product parts that could be available in the near future (e.g. lab-on-a-chip outside the body).
Keep your passion 🙂