Developing our Concept
My team had developed an idea to incorporate music and fitness together by using headphones as a sort of connective medium. This idea originally stemmed from an error we had made - two of us, myself included, accidentally had developed ideas for pedometers and vacuums. Originally a pain in the butt to correct, it inspired many ideas that were actually pretty good (if I do say so myself). Our teacher's assistant had enjoyed this particular idea, but made one criticism - why only focus on fitness and music, why not try to incorporate headphones into more/all sections of our perspective big box retail clients. All in all, our accidental "lateral thinking method" actually turned out to be pretty helpful! Perhaps service designers could consider doing such types of exercises - i.e. thinking about how to solve a problem by looking at another problem and drawing parallels between them.
