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Designing an affordable device based on handwriting recognition, for the small  retail business sector in India

Client: HP Labs Asia

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Project goals

  • Generate product and technology ideas for small retail shops
  • Evaluating and grouping concepts (Products, features and systems)
  • Ideation and visualization of product ideas

Methodology

  • Collaborative brainstorming with stakeholders at HP Labs
  • Ethnographic study of the small retail segment across the country
  • Concept ideation
  • Focus group with selected participants
  • Tool Kits
  • Photographs
  • Contextual inquiry
  • Creative brainstorming

Analysis

  1. Product conceptualization from stakeholder brainstorming sessions
  2. Analysis of the contextual inquiry sessions
    Affinity diagramming and categorizing user needs according to typical tasks performed in the shop, Interactions with the suppliers and the customers, Ordering/reordering, credit and payment, trust and relationship, Inventory Management and control, Storage/Retrieval, Display, Demand forecasting, Wastage and Loss etc.
  3. Analysis of focus group sessions

Synthesis

Final product concepts were delivered to HP Labs, based on the integration of findings from all three types of sessions conducted with stakeholders at HP Labs and the users who participated in the study.

 

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