May 312 minWeek 23: The final ceremony is getting closerOver the past two weeks we made sure that we were ready for the final presentation. On the programming side we updated the UI to the...
May 171 minWeek 22The past week we continued to work hard on the finishing touches of the app, as well as the app video and the pitch, towards the end of...
May 103 minWeek 20+21: Gamification ChallengeThe past two weeks have been dedicated to testing the gamification. We wanted to test it thoroughly and to determine whether it should be...
Apr 252 minWeek 19: Evaluate mentors' feedback, iterate our screens, and brainstorm ideas for product videoWe had our second speed mentoring session before we left for Passover vacation. In around 15 minutes, we talked with each mentor from the...
Apr 61 minWeek 18: Speed mentoringThe week started with an excellent presentation done by Shir in front of the school of psychology dean – Dr. Anat Klomek Brunstein. Next,...
Mar 292 minWeek 17: Usability Testing and PrototypingAfter presenting our progress in class last week, we decided to change the app name again - hopefully for the last time ;) We decided to...
Mar 223 minWeek 16: Beginning of Microcopy & UI challengesIn this week's sprint, we were aiming to complete two user flows; one flow is focused on sending a gesture to the partner and the second...
Mar 153 minWeek 15: New Homepage Design This week we made a significant change. We created a new home page! After getting honest feedback from our mentors, we decided to create...
Mar 82 minWeek 14: Value propositionThis week started in class with updated presentations and with a fascinating creativity exercise to open our minds. Then we were...
Mar 42 minWeek 13: During semester vacayAt the end of the last semester, we got some feedback during the mentoring session (final presentations) about the age of our users. At...
Jan 292 minWeek 12: End of Semester AAfter three months of ideas and mental drills, we got to the point where we needed to think about how our product will look like. This...
Dec 28, 20212 minWeek 11: 2nd Home page+ System architectureThis week was WEIRD! During the semester we got used to talk with each other more than with our romantic partner. This week we got...
Dec 21, 20212 minWeek 10: Visualisation Following a thorough 3 months of market research, defining personas, and ideation, we are now in a position to think about how our...
Dec 12, 20212 minWeek 9: Speed mentoring This week we had our first meeting with five inspiring mentors. During each session, we presented our idea, while the mentors gave us...
Dec 7, 20212 minWeek 8: Step FlowThis week started in presenting in call our "product scenario" from last week. Then, we got to work! WE HAD TO FOCUS! To be honest, we...
Nov 30, 20212 minWeek 7: IdeationThe Ideations at It’s best. This week we continued the ideation process. In class we had 2 amazing ideation exercises. We started with...
Nov 26, 20212 minWeek 6: BrainstormingThis week started with an enjoyable activity in the last class session. We were asked to create a timeline that describes the day of our...
Nov 26, 20211 minWeek 5: Empathy MapThis week we presented in class our process and the “How Might We Question” (HMWQ) that we conducted due to the conclusions from the...
Nov 26, 20212 minWeek 4: How might we?!This week we were asked to define the “persona” of our typical users. This persona should help us understand our users key traits,...
Nov 26, 20211 minWeek 3: End users interviewsThis week we got to the part where we're figuring out the specific problems of our domain. After the interviews we've done the interviews...
Nov 26, 20211 minWeek 1 +2 : Let's start the journey!Every year the lab focuses on a different challenge, and this year the chosen one is Companionship. In the first week, Each one of us...