Interview 2 - Feedback on the Ideate Stage

After the Ideate stage, I conduct an interview with my uncle Varun Lokhande who is a young adult working in the IT sector for the past 15 years. His work is related to interacting and empathizing with people and therefore he visits many offices. He also frequently visits banks for personal work.

In the second interview with Mr. Varun, I took his feedback on my 5 thumbnail sketches. Firstly, I explained my concept of sketches to him and further took his feedback on which one out of the five he liked. I also asked him what he liked in the design and how can it be further improved.

He liked ideas 1,3 and 4 and further choose idea 4 justifying his reason that it’s more suitable according to my criteria that is easy to clean, protection from the virus, and comfortable. He further gave me suggestions on what can be improved in the design. We discussed on how upgrading the material can improve the product efficiency and overall look as well.

To know more in detail about our discussion do have a look at the video above.

Thank you for reading the blog and do comment down below on what you think of the feedback.

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