Validate, Validate
During this week, week number 6 there are a lot of happenings in this week, from our last consultation with the instructor for the week 5's responses from our target customers, the instructor suggested that in order to validate the idea because in week 5 we already confirmed that there is a problem exist in our chosen idea, in this week we need also to validate how literate the market vendors in using smartphones where smartphone is the vital link of our idea to deliver the solution to our target customers. It was also an amazing experience during this week because the team planned to meet up together and gather responses in a particular place or market, for me it was my first time teaming up with this individuals and also, it is my first time to be with them for a long period of time and talk about our ideas in person. But in order to make this week an amazing one, the team needed to plan things up in order to avoid any certainties.
The team formulated a new set of questions that is related on the literacy of the market vendors in using smartphone, this interview is very crucial because this will validated if the market vendors is capable in using smartphone and also it is crucial for the app's design because we need to base the design of the app based on what mobile application usually the market vendors use in order for them to easily adapt to the navigation flow and how the interface looks like. In regards to the market that we are targeting, we initially choose a place in brgy. Iponan where there is a small marketplace there, the reason why we chose that place is simply because we expected a very crowded and busy environment if we choose either Carmen or Cogon public market. During the interview we didn't expect the difficulties on getting respondents in the actual market because some of the vendors is busy and is either afraid to us, one of our member purchases some items in order to convinced them and also like a token of respect to them for giving their insights and time despite of how busy they are.
One of the highlight for me in this interview is one of our respondent talks about its frustration because one of the vendor in that place already adapted selling in facebook, she discussed their that sometimes her customers/friends is not buying products from her, simply because they already ordered from one the vendor their who adapted selling in facebook. Also, the one thing that I really liked about this week's task is I realized the difference between interviewing the respondents virtually and in person interview, also, the bond of the team is getting stronger because of this week's task because we had the chance to bond, talk and exchange ideas personally and for me I'm looking forward for more things like this where everything is done in person. Overall it was a great experience for me.
