1 and 2b - "Group Formation and BrainStorming": First Meeting Post (Bit Late!!)

We’ve been a bit lapse with updating our blog, so firstly to recap!

In our first meeting a couple of weeks ago we quickly realised that we all wanted to create some kind of product for young children. We had a brainstorming session to decide on various products that we could do, and two of the strongest that emerged were as follows;

Firstly we thought about some adaptation on car seats to make them entertaining for children, in order to keep children occupied on long journeys. This then extended into the idea that it could be transformed into a multipurpose baby carrier, that would contain some way of entertaining the child, and be able to act as a safe car seat, baby carrier and have wheel attachments to be useable as a pram. As far as we knew a product like this didn’t exist so it was a good option.

The second idea was some kind of hand held gizmo like a handheld touch sensitive flat screen console that would allow the user to draw cartoons, as well as use set pictures and drawings, to create their own characters, and then allow animation of them so that the user could create some kind of personal cartoon based on their own designs and innovations.

Clearly these would be intended for very different age groups of children, the first being for maybe 3 and younger, the other having to be for maybe 7 and older as it would have to include some relatively complex controls and technology that younger children would struggle with.

That was the result of our first meeting and idea session. Aside from that we decided that it would be a great idea to go to Toys ‘r’ us for some inspiration (so this meeting was before the previous post), or at least to clarify our ideas and gain more of an incite into what is available for children these days, and what is appropriate for different age groups, as for this meeting we were all pretty much in the dark about specifics of that nature.