For my interviewing strategy, I interviewed younger, potentially tech-savvy individuals. I asked the following questions:
1. Are you a student at UF?
2. Do you use outside study resources, like study edge or tutoring zone?
3. Do you like playing games with your friends on apps, like QuizUp?
4. If there were similar games that focused on your class's content do you think that would help you study better for exams?
5. Do you think other people would find this useful?
I asked these questions because I want to create an app that has various types of trivia games, single and multiplayer, that help students with their specific course material. What differentiates this from an app like QuizUp is that while QuizUp has general categories like "science" the categories featured on my app will be the course code of a given class, so it's that much more specific and more helpful for each individual student.
What I learned is that this wouldn't be applicable to a lot of classes, such as the hands-on architecture and graphic design classes, but would be better suited for content/vocabulary heavy classes. However, for the people who could use this, it seems like something they'd definitely be interested in at least trying. After conducting these interviews, I'd like to brainstorm a way to make at least some type of study game applicable to other majors, such as architecture and graphic design.
Hi Hayley,
ReplyDeleteGreat questions on your interview! I enjoyed watching your post and I believe that your unmet opportunity would be helpful for many students at UF. I personally use tutoring zone for my classes and I’ve used smoking notes in the past for other classes and I would definitely find your business plan useful for my studying. In other words, I would be your prospect client for sure! All in all, I believe you did a great job on asking in-depth questions to your interviewees as they provided you with great and useful feedback. Please take a look to my post and feel free to leave comment if you want. Great job! Keep it up!
Here is the link to my post: http://alejandroentrepreneurship.blogspot.com/2016/02/meeting-my-customers-customer_14.html
Hayley,
ReplyDeleteI like your business idea and I think that the questions you chose relate well to figuring out the details of your idea. However, this interview was supposed to offer a different perspective by allowing the consumer to read about you business idea and offer their own initial response to the idea. I think this approach helped a lot of people discover things they had not thought to consider so I think you should try this out and see what new things are brought to your attention. Great post otherwise!
http://kailadevin.blogspot.com/2016/02/interviewing-customers-no-3.html
Hi Hayley! I really like this business idea. You're definitely right, this would be better for classes that are more vocabulary based or if students need to remember a lot of facts. I use the game feature on Quizlet, and I really like it because it lets me study when I'm on the bus without having to bring out my laptop or my handwritten notes. If an app already had everything organized and set up for a specific class, I'd definitely look into it! Great post!
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