Week 14: Feedback and rectifications
This week was all about debriefing and analyzing what worked what did not work, finding out the gaps in our Evaluative research presentation and how might we communicate them in the final presentation.
13th April -
After the presentation, we did a quick exercise to evaluate the feedback we had received. Each of us performed an initial synthesis of the feedback to analyze what resonated as important from an individual perspective.
Then we synthesized our points in a manner that addressed all the concerns we had mentioned in our personal feedback:
Next Steps:
- To create scenarios that were relatable to our day to day lives.
- To show the scale of Impact (ground in theory)
- How do we plan to address Privacy, Accessibility, Misuse cases?
- To do a competitive analysis by looking at other existing platforms and Index project examples.
- To create a business model or a value flow diagram.
- What is the Motivation & Relevance to join the platform?
- How do we merge Practical + Emotional Approaches?
- What would be the offline & online ecosystem of the platform?
- How do we want to communicate our final idea?
15th April -
Debrief session with Peter: Peter gave us constructive feedback on the aspects that we were unsure about. It really helped us understand how we should build our story arc and what were some of the key things we should add in the presentation.
Some of the key points that were mentioned are as follows:
- Peter suggested that we look at alternative business models since surveillance capitalism is not the only way. This idea made sense because we wanted to set it up as a non-profit platform , like an opensource funded approach.
- There are two ways to go about it- one way: Build a new system and another way: Build on existing systems.
- How do we plan to scale it more than its intended use? The same way Wechat scaled in China.
- What are the long-term challenges we are helping with?
- Are we supporting any local businesses and stores?
- Through crisis, we have seen we are not ready to deal with a global crisis. One of the reasons we are not ready is because we don’t have the connections
- Stage setting & storytelling
- Fill out the index form and figure out the parts of the story that we should be able to explain
- Tell a story in 10mins
- Show the fragility of current systems
- What is the end goal, what is our story, can it showed through the interactions, how this is going to make a positive impact in the world?
Overall, the desk crit turned out to be quite helpful in terms of gathering an understanding of what was expected in the final presentation :)
