Can you Solve Bigger Problems for the World — the startup thought process

Design Thinking is a 5-step process to come up with meaningful ideas that solve real problems for a particular group of people. The process is taught in top design and business schools around the world.

It has brought many businesses lots of happy customers and helped entrepreneurs from all around the world, to solve problems with innovative new solutions.

Step 1: Empathize

The purpose of step one is to conduct interviews that give you an idea about what people really care about. We need to empathize with their situation. For example, if you want to help old people, you might find that they want to keep the ability to walk around. In your conversations, they might share with you different ways they can do that.

Later into the interview, you’ll want to dig a little deeper, look for personal stories or situations where things became difficult. Ideally, you redo the process with many people with the same problem.

Step 2: Define the Problem

Looking at the interviews, you can now understand the actual needs that people are trying to fulfil with certain activities. One way to do that is to underline the verbs or activities that the people mentioned when talking about…