SmartCart​
This semester I had the opportunity to work with four bright students on a prototype that would tackle traffic in grocery stores.
We came up with the concept of SmartCart, a re-imagination of grocery shopping in terms of social media and GPS navigation. SmartCart would use 5G to locate shoppers' precise locations and direct them on the most efficient route to their desired products.
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The user interview was omitted for confidentiality
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Process
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Identify an opportunity to improve an experience.
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gather detailed qualitative data from real world interactions
3.
Brainstorm. A cool creative exercise: think of what is least related to the problem you are solving, i.e the ocean and supermarkets. Make a solution out of this wild idea: Underwater supermarkets! Do this six times in six minutes
4.
Begin prototyping. Here was our earlier concept of the route optimization system being applied to the New York subway