Post-48 hours: Reflections

Our take-aways:

• The team has to be balanced. It requires a magical mix of design, tech, entrepreneurial and social skill sets. I am glad we had them all!
• When you are looking for problems to solve, the first place to look out is your own daily life - this ensures a. its a real world problem. b. you empathize with the problem c. you're passionate about it - if for no-one else, you'll at least solve it for your own self! FoodGenie solves our own problems!
• It is easy to get caught in the fascinating world of ideas and designs, STOP! build your idea - if it will take considerable resources - mock it up. Building and seeing your idea taking shape will present you with an understanding far more realistic than the design and ideation process.
• Focus and dedicate! In our case the 48 hour constraint was enough to put us back to the desk - maybe putting the same constraint on day to day work yield good short-sighted results!
• And last but the most important - have FUN while doing it!

And here's what we (Shawn, Ken, Emma and me) created in 48 hours -

Thanks to Prof. Adrian Cheok and Dr. Newton Fernando for all the support!

-Dhairya