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Traffic might be the most problematic issue of the modern era.

As we validate key points of the study Adaptive Traffic Control System, we learnt the frustrations of drivers on dealing with traffic. It got me thinking, it was not that taxing to me as a student even though I have a fair share of my commutes. Definitely a huge step to take when transitioning from a student to work force point of view. This inspired me to innovate solutions for this worldwide traffic issue.

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As our validation goes by, it more looked like we are far from the true purpose of our product. The further we validate our hypothesis, the demand of our product falls. As we learn about the farmer’s struggles and hardship, the more you can appreciate them and want them to help but actually, they do not need the absolute help in terms of technical terms at least. The functions we offer is not noble enough to them to acknowledge. It seems to us, or at least to me, is that our product is unnecessary. For example, if a certain vegetable does not yield its full potential, does that mean it is not productive? We discovered that even this vegetable is lower quality, it is still be useful to them at some extent. It looks like the purpose of our proposed product does not outweighs the problems if ever fixed. Some of this issues they need to address are not something we can solve like natural disasters. We might decide to move on to other field to offer product and services if this is how it turns out. 

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At this point we decided to include costumers on a non-professional perspective. We came up with this proposition as we validate our product that it has a demand to regular growers and we can add some features that targeted to them. As we attempt to validate this hypothesis, we discovered that they were as passionate as a professional farmers too. They were exited to grow their own plants but lacks the experience. The function we added to our product throughout this point was a soil moisture measuring tool for proper irrigation treatments. We decided to add this as we learned that some farmers have bad yields when not properly maintained, especially on irrigation. This function can be very helpful to the non-professional growers who attempts to grow crops or plants that needs accurate treatments. 

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As we further validate our proposition, the gaps we need to fill...were some sort of an illusion. We continued to interview and asked about their daily lives as farmers, what crops they grow and stuff. These information we gathered were enough for us to conclude what functions we need to include to our product. It went wrong because we did not really grasp the problem they have at that point. We are still on the preliminary stages, or “knowing each other” stage. We continued to put function that may or may not be needed to them. If you look at it, It sounds like we were the one deciding what problems they were suffering as how this validation process develops. Looking back, validation of our product should focus on the costumers and not the product. As what I’ve learned on class that a product exist when there’s a costumer and not the other way around. We could’ve further inquire their specific struggles as a farmer and not just as a person. We could’ve ask more about their technical difficulties and what problems that needs to addressed immediately. These action may lead us to better understanding their hardships and passion as a farmer.

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Upon inquiring our potential costumers, the farmers, we discovered that the product we were proposing to them does not have clear objective to solve their problem. We went interviewing without considering specific problems to fix for them. Our product we proposed were vague as we thought that it will just solve their problem on its own upon presenting the idea we have but we were far from right. Our product called AGRICULTool, which function initially allows you to browse agricultural tips and information for it to help them ease their jobs, was too unnoble and quite not needed but there are still a demand and use. It even cause us more problems than solving one. Now, thinking about it, we could’ve asked first what problems they need to address and resolve immediately. If they presented us with many issues, we could’ve rank them from highest priority to low and thinking objectively on what problem on their field that should be needed to fix.