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MenuHiong Tan I use human centred design to help create impact.
Founder of The Dot Connect, one of the founding team members for the special innovation unit for the Prime Minister of Malaysia, the Malaysian Innovation Agency, and Genovasi, Malaysia's first Design Thinking School.
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HT$2.50/min per minuteNew ArrivalUse Human Centred Design to Create Impact in What You Do.Hiong Tan • Kuala LumpurCreated 10 years ago in Product & Design / Lean StartupI will help you identify new opportunities and ways to overcome existing obstacles. Human centred design can be used to validate a new idea that you have, improve internal processes, or simply improve what you offer to your customers.Hiong Tan Kuala LumpurNew Arrival
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It depends on which stage your start-up is currently at. Could you share a bit more info?


The key thing to ask is "which idea is going to create the biggest impact?"
There are plenty of ideas that may be "cool" but ultimately nobody really needs it so it probably won't have an impact. Segways for example fall into this category (though they are experiencing some success in the tourism industry). On the other hand there are some ideas that would appear to be pretty mundane and boring, but they fulfil a real need and end up becoming a great success. The paper clip is probably a really simple example of this.
Go out there and find out who the idea will benefit, speak to them and find out if it is really something that they need.
Good luck :-)
Hiong
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