In todays lesson, we were divided up into groups of 10-11 to go over our three chosen major project ideas and receive feedback from our peers and lecturer.
During this feedback session I received very positive feedback on all three of my concepts however it was an unanimous decision that idea 1 - a mobile/desktop application to manage you prescription medicines, was the strongest. I was pleased by this response as this was the idea I'd leaned most towards at the early stages as I could see the potential for research materials and statistics that would be needed to justify the need and requirement for my application.
I also have so insight for this idea as between the ages of 17 and 22, I worked in a local pharmacy and also a doctor's surgery. From my time in these environments, it was obvious that a way to connect and communicate between a pharmacy, doctors and even hospitals would be highly beneficial and would remove the bad user experience that currently exists within these NHS services.
Now that I have a project I'm hoping to take forward, Daniel suggested we should now subject our idea to a rigorous SWOT analysis if we haven’t already done so as it should help build confidence in our new idea and identify some opportunities to pursue and weaknesses to be addressed or considered. He also wanted us to start to find statistics, facts and figures to back up and validate that our project should be designed, we could also conduct some user interviews with people we would trust or to get insights that will help sell the concept in our pitch and proposals. The important thing is to find information that will back up and justify our claims that the project should be undertaken whether it is statistics about the problem itself or an indication from potential stakeholders as we will be able to use this info as slides in your pitch so it's better to start and gather this now.