1st meeting with Anders Smith (my tutor)

Today Tuesday 19th of January I had a big chat with Anders Smith my tutor in this project; We talked about about relevant ideas and the way I will start with the research part, how I am going to structure this.

I’m gonna start understanding the flow of what they do and how they do it! (what are the procedures to rescue people nowadays) specifictly the time line with all the actions to know more what they already have in terms of processes, protocols and products.

What I want to do? “mines rescue” is very wide and there are many different design opportunities so I need to define all the different mines operation and their accidents, in a few words: what they do and how many accidents they have had during their operational periods, once I collect all these information I can go directly to the miners and know more about them, about their life and their thoughts. After I have all this information I would be able to analyze it and define my opportunity of course my goals and wishes are gonna change once I know what I am gonna work with. 

During this chat I can highlight many relevant points:

• I wanna end up with a product which be extremely good for them, and relevant to show how Atlas Copco can raid in a new area for them, something visionary. 
• Based on the research certainly I can define the direction I want to take in this project and does not matter if is something that Atlas Copco is not good at doing it today, I mean it can be a new area, a new opportunity.
• I’m gonna design something for rescue not something to prevent accidents, it is important this big difference.
• Find the value of my product, what is important for Atlas Copco, for the miners and for me?
• I need to spend more time with miners, I need to find out how they live, think, what they like, feel, etc. all this is gonna help me to create my personas.
• I will propose something where the opportunity is; I picture it as strategic deign because I have a topic but I do not know what I am going to do yet.
• Don’t be afraid to end up in something conceptual (just if this is relevant and can be a step to develop a new product in the future).

As I do not know in what kind of product I am going to end up it is important don’t try to solve problems right now, the important thing during this phase is to define a problem and do a solid research which is gonna define where my opportunity is.