Design Sprint: Day 1

Millennials have problems. Lots of problems. Lots of ridiculous problems no other generations have had. Problems that arise from a tremendous amount of opportunities. Problems that arise from having a good life. We are doing a design sprint in order to solve one of these problems.

The first day of the design spring consisted of basically listing problems, coming up with a cognitive map, map, and focusing on one specific question. Some of the practical problems we determined were: Having a sense of belonging, having a lack of practical skills arising from an over-dependence on parents, disconnect from parents even though we overly depend on them. Other issues that we had dealt with pertained to addiction: addiction towards feeds, streams, updates, texts, mentions, retweets, likes, shares, upvotes, adiction to drinking (not necessarily alcoholism, but partying all the time), adiction to a bummed out lifestyle, TV shows, procrastination.

The central idea that we focused on was that we are the most social generation, but we lack social skills and are afraid of interaction. "I wish I knew how to talk to girls sober," "I wish I knew where I belong," "I wish I knew how to disconnect myself." We feel as if we address the issue of social incompetence, we could definitely find a product that could serve as a solution.