{"id":1607,"date":"2017-03-29T14:33:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T18:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2017-03-29T14:33:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T18:33:04","slug":"breakfast-date-with-pat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/2017\/03\/29\/breakfast-date-with-pat\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Date with Pat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were lucky to finally meet our client and mentor, Pat Keran, for breakfast at the Mendoza Cafe\u00a0on March 29th. In our discussion with him,\u00a0we readdressed our research and introduced him to our initial ideation ideas. We talked about buttons, wearables, platforms, analytics, statistics, and more. He provided fantastic feedback and helped keep us on track for what he is looking for, while also fostering inspiration by encouraging creativity. We addressed\u00a0several key questions, such as: What about use outside of the home?\u00a0How do we connect the prototype to work\u00a0remotely? How about a wearable vibrating device for reminders and detecting falls? And will insurance companies subsidize the costs? Wendy also proposed a great idea inspired by United Way, which is a master dashboard check list of sorts that displays a progress bar towards &#8220;optimal health&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div>The three key takeaways we got from this meeting are as follows:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>keep the product simple (integrate it into an\u00a0ecosystem of standard things at home)<\/li>\n<li>make sure it is engaging (Game-ification and socialization are huge)<\/li>\n<li>make is\u00a0customizable to fit the needs of as many people as possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We look forward to ideating and prototyping with these thoughts in mind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were lucky to finally meet our client and mentor, Pat Keran, for breakfast at the Mendoza Cafe\u00a0on March 29th. In our discussion with him,\u00a0we readdressed our research and introduced him to our initial ideation ideas. We talked about buttons, wearables, platforms, analytics, statistics, and more. He provided fantastic feedback and helped keep us on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2383,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187905],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-optum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}