Saturday 16 April 2016

Chapter 7: Designing the product: Innovation Redefined

What do you understand when you label someone innovative?
You feel this person has some intellectual prowess, or an ability to look at things differently. You know that an innovative person can think out of the box and this ability in itself sets him apart. Also, there is a belief that innovation is an intuitive behaviour and it comes naturally.

But, let me correct you. Innovation is nothing but a skill that is developed by challenging yourself in all conditions. You have to force yourself to think in extreme measures so that you can pick out the best in that rubble of thoughts.

In this chapter, I want you to learn a technique that is a very essential pre-requisite in being innovative, or simply stated, a technique for being an effective product developer.

This is called "connecting dots."



What you do in this technique is that you find all the leads you have and then discover the best paths to pursue. This way you shall have a hundred ways to continue any project. Every path will eventually be unique and following any one of them is innovation, and choosing the best path is called "effective innovation."

Now it is time I give you all a vision of my side of the product we have been working on till now.

Product description: When I look at this product, I want to deliver something that gives company to people whenever they feel alone. This product is meant to be something for those who are socially deprived, seek external motivation, feel suicidal or believe life has never been fair.
What inspires me to seek this product market is that when life is all elated, people go out on active social networking, but what about when we seek loneliness, but still need to feel our part in this world.
This gives me an opportunity to tap into a huge market which I believe if exploited properly is quite effective both socially and financially.

You all have worked quite well till now on the previous chapters along the same lines, and I am sure, you can now bring that to good use when connecting the dots now.

I'll give you 5 dots here from my side:

  1. A place to share moods anonymously using pictures and posts.
  2. Create something unique like "The laughing Panda"(a self made term, so don't google it) by clicking on which people find a good dozen blogposts on travelling, stories, just a source to live by.
  3. A friend who talks. Connect anonymous people to share thoughts. (Even if you have to be that second person in the beginning)
  4. "The Fairyland" where people are always surprised by what they see, but make sure the content is uploaded by users and is not yours forever. But make it unique.
  5. "The Superhero" would be the place for a person preparing for something special in his life and he seeks the world for support. This could be  a soldier preparing to leave his children before he leaves for the field, a woman before her wedding, or a woman who is about to be a mother, or a man giving his last IAS attempt. Create something special for these people. 

This is your chance for being the closest you could be to give your lives a purpose.
And to set yourself apart.

What you have to do in this chapter is:

  1. Get your dots together. (Use the previous chapters, cause I got some awesome submissions). You all are required to work together on this one, but everyone who contributes to the team must have done studies at their respective ends so that he/she is not an unneccessary spectator but a necessity.
  2. Once you get your dots together, connect the best ones and get ready with a product. This is going to be a very intriguing state when you shall see the ocean of opportunities. But chose the best way. THE BEST PRODUCT. You have an excellent team. So go, create.

This product is going to be a team conclusion. This is going to be your final product.
The deadline of this chapter is 27th April, so complete 10 days. Everyday from now should carry a story for the product throughout the next 10 days.
 
Regarding the submission, mail me at greenwasblue@gmail.com. Even though very soon thereafter, we shall meet, cause it'll be time to ride the wagon, after it has been designed.

In case of any queries, message me.

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