Week 7 - Ideation Part B (09-16\12)

Deepen Our Understanding Of The Problem While Trying To Solve It By More Insights Research

After the excitement of coming to the lab last week after a long time, we started this week focused and purposeful to continue the solution process.

"If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution"(Steve Jobs)

Firstly, we created a timeline script based on the principle of: "When it starts and When it ends״, which describes the steps in the process from the beginning in which the user has the need we defined in the previous weeks to the end where we help him answer it and realize his need.

After creating the timeline, we concluded that we need to understand how we can actually meet the main need of our users, how we can get information about the history of rented apartments which unfortunately at this point is not in a particular database but is currently in the crowds' possession.

Therefore, at the beginning of the week, we assigned individual tasks to each team member in order to allow an investigation into many areas quickly and find a solution.

• Roei - Research about the "Midrag", Moovit and Glassdoor platforms and learn how they manage to gather information from the wisdom of the crowd as inspiration and a possible model for implementation.
  

• Eitan - Research as an inspiration about the government's national vehicle price list and the way data is collected.
  

• Idan - Explore as an inspiration about the way the ״Fairi״ app has collected data based on the wisdom of the crowd and how they succeeded in achieving the task we strive to achieve: Obtaining 5,000 apartments as a basic initial database.
  

• Noa - Research about models and ideas for possible incentives that will help encourage people to share information on their own initiative.
  

• Daniel - Research about possible collaborations with key companies that have vital databases in the field.

Eventually, we met for a concluding zoom video call to exchange insights and adjust to possible courses of action to continue the process.

To sum up the week, we found out for ourselves that sometimes it is okay to divide the work and that each team member will be responsible for a particular topic in order to accomplish many tasks in a short amount of time. We undoubtedly feel that we have learned a lot from this week and we look forward to seeing how we apply what we learn to the best solution for our users.