satisFactory

Reach For The Stars

We have come to the very end of the SCI-project course. Grande Finale is over, final presentations have been held and writing this blog is one of the last things that is left anymore. So, what are our feelings at this point? First, let’s dive into the Grande Finale and thereafter talk about…

Sounds Like a Business

This has truly been a busy week: lots of meetings, hours and hours of product development and, of course, preparing for the Grand Finale. Sounds like a business? It truly does — some companies are even interested in acquiring our application. It’s so rewarding that at the end of a…

Week 10: Quiet before storm

This week could be described as a quiet one for our team. All of us have been working with their own individual tasks preparing for the big bang that is the grand finale. It is wonderful to see how the pieces are seamlessly falling to their places and our final vision is coming…

Week 9: The prototype is alive

The last week has been full of hype, ideas and decisions. We have managed to narrow down our broad concept into a simple, testable prototype.

The prototype presentation

Invitation to the Grande Finale

with SatisFactory!

The SCI-project course has almost come to its ending point but the highlight of the entire course is yet to come! Team satisFactory warmly welcomes all activity organizing companies to the Grande Finale at Otaniemi…

Week 8: What about the ca$h?

Yet another week in satisFactory has gone by fast. We have moved away from the swiping mechanism that we presented last week, and towards a list representation of events. We believe that after all this serves our app’s purpose better, but we will have to validate this design as…

Week 7: Simplicity Battles Functionality

One week ago was a significant milestone for us. As a recap: we had decided on the market segment to focus on, that is large companies and their employees. We had started counting service provider companies, such as movie theaters and event venues, as our…

A Great Problem Requires a Great Solution

Business side of the story

After identifying the problem of the potential end users, the next step in the project was to define which customer segment should we target our product to. We identified individual customers, small…

Week 5: Houston, we have a problem

Don’t worry, that’s a good thing. The best thing for our group so far, I think.

We have spent almost four weeks getting to know our target group and trying to define a problem worth solving together with them. We started with the assumption…