After
reading the papers this week and reading the other students blog posts I feel
like I have a better idea on prototypes. I also attended the second lecture
with Haibo Li.
Haibo Li
wanted to talk to us about ideas; how to come up with ideas, how to filter
them, how to validate, evaluate and communicate them.
When you
come up with an idea you always have to filter. Haibo told us a few things to
think about; does the idea address the real problem? Is the timing right? Is
there a big enough market? But before
this stage you have to define the right problem. And this is the thing that Haibo
highlighted and that I found most interesting. He talked about not starting
with the solution and always going back to the real problem. He said that a lot
of professors are famous for their solutions for problems in advanced reports,
but the ones who get really famous are the ones who work hard on defining the
problem. To make a point out of this Haibo told us a story about a professor
and a student being chased by a bear. The problem was how to outrun the bear, but
since one person would be good enough for the bear; the problem was no longer
how to outrun the bear, but to outrun the professor. With this metaphor he
wanted to show us that it is important think about the problem, not the
solution.
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