Evaluation and selection Using an evaluation matrix, the derived ideas were evaluated and high scoring ideas were further elaborated. Following were the criteria to evaluate the derived ideas: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Newness Ability to solve the problem Practical Profitable Achievable using my skills The potential for early users Passion factor (I really love it!)
This allowed me to come up with our solution which was formed via combining two ideas which were ‘virtual cupboard’ which Linked the donations, rental, selling and exchange sites to our inventory. The next section of the developed solution was ‘spend4joy’ which try to plot the user’s expenses and their relationship with joy on a quadrant for clear communication/feedback. The result was a graph as seen in Figure 9.
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