Experiment & Validate

In this workshop we started with User testing vs. Usability testing. For this we used our classmates and found that we need mobile app for our smart chair project to be designed. It enables some user values such as Functional Value, Financial Value, Social Value, Psychological Value etc. All these values are important but the functional and psychological values are the most important here that we considered. While we were performing pain and gain proposition we found interesting values in our project such as our product brings mental and physical satisfaction and ensures a healthy and balanced life while educating oneself. We found that that pains are: laziness, less motivation, concentration, busy schedule, bringing materials to the lecture etc. are the main pains and the gains are: healthy mind and body, strong concentration, strong motivation, flexibility etc. Here is a full picture of value and concept proposition and its canvas fully desined.

Figure 1: Concept and value proposition

Figure 2:Value proposition canvas

After the value proposition canvas design, we discussed and found the functional and emotional benefits that the product will bring. We found our smart chair concept prolongs user health monitored and safety while working or studying also used the user experience honeycomb which is existed in our project and the things to be considered are in the following photo. And we are going to ensure in our project that it meets all these honeycomb user experience.

Figure 3: user experience honeycomb

And after that we studied Minimum viable product (MVP) which is a fast study of quantitative market strategy for a product or its future. It created us a product hypothesis which is: we believe that the smart chair for learning environment and work life will achieve maximum motivation and workforce in any sphere. After defining it we went to other group for peer review and found that we have clarity, Understandability and Measurability. A minimum viable product (MVP) is a very acceptable and working method of product development technique in which a new product or website is developed with sufficient features to satisfy early adopters. The final, complete set of features is only designed and developed after considering feedback from the product's initial users. A good example of right MVP could be dropbox, exploding kittens, spotify, Peeble watch etc.

MVP’s advantage in HCD:

1.An MVP Brings Focus to the Core Value Proposition

2.An MVP Reduces Rework.

3. An MVP Creates Relationships with Customers Sooner

4. An MVP Brings Focus to Critical Business Functions

STORYBOARD is a tool that visually predicts and explores a user’s experience with a product.it defines:

*communicating and creating a shared understanding of an idea.

* Invites to explore the key aspects of the idea.

For focusing and storytelling of our product we accounted these things: Clarity, Authenticity, Simplicity, Emotion etc. And from the peer review we noticed our story has all these present. We also gave feedback to other mates and noticed there is a lack of at least one of them, either clarity or emotion.