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The pressure cooker helped with understanding the complexity of the design challenge. When letting loose of conventional ways of planning a world of options and opportunities arises. To prevent aimless design attempts, a purpose in designing for the organizing and synchronizing of activities in the IoT home was formed (see Appendix C). The designers brainstormed about the essence of family planning, the future of planning, the current problem and formed a vision of their own.

To structurize thoughts and to form a vision, a design sprint was organized. Insights from the pressure cooker were showed that looking for less conventional ways of planning may be rewarding. The basic needs required to organize and synchronize activities were extracted. Using the “How might we?” method (IDEO [1], 2018) a series of alternative or completely new ways of organizing and synchronizing. These were described as a functions that could be implemented in the future concept.

Brainstorms and sketching on the envisioned functionality resulted in three possible concept directions. All three had completely unique interaction styles and different implementations of time, but they all shared the same core of functionalities. Fig.3: How Might We’s