A very common factor about the market is that it is a very fickle place, as every product is immediately shoved aside for whatever is brand new. This is something that young Elias Elikem Ifeanyi Dzobo, a first year computer science student shared with us on the D: Lab Content Series two week ago.
He expresses his profound belief on how humans always hunger for the next new thing, and how this ranges from several of the modern innovations we have come to know and love such as telecommunications and automobiles. An example is how a product such as the iPhone 5 was immediately forgotten when the iPhone 11 Pro came out mainly because of its amazing new features. The question is then posed "What can be done to have consumers cherish the current products they have so they do not suffer the same fate? Elias's answer to that was one thing: "Design Thinking". Design Thinking refers to the cognitive, strategic and practical processes to solve problems relating to products and services. He states that their implementations are the rescuers needed by companies to liberate their products from the cycle of product abandonment, all for the dream of having what's hip and happening in the world.
Elias believes that design thinking adds sentimental value to those products so consumers may appreciate their value and use them for a much longer time. This is a step closer to a much better world,
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