Friday, March 30, 2012

For a product to succeed, it must get M.A.D.E. | Catapult Design

For a product to succeed, it must get M.A.D.E. | Catapult Design

Meaningful:

The product fits into the lives of the people who will use it and helps them meet a need they currently have, in a significant way.

Accessible:

People can afford, purchase, understand, maintain/repair, and use the product.

Desirable:

People want the product and are willing to go out of their way, and make sacrifices, to get one.

Effective:

The product does what it was intended to do.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Hunger: The World’s Greatest Solvable Problem

Hunger: The World’s Greatest Solvable Problem


Nearly a billion people go to bed hungry every night. But what would it take to put a stop to this?

 
 


Hunger Price Tags


  • It costs US$10 to feed a boy in a Kenya refugee camp for 3 weeks, less than the cost of a lipstick in Manhattan.
  • It would cost US$3.5 billion to feed every hungry schoolchild in the world. That’s around two times the takings from the movie, “Titanic”, which grossed US$1.8 billion worldwide.
  • It costs  US$50 to feed a schoolgirl for one year;  similar to the cost of one iPod shuffle (US$45)
  • One super-healthy ration of Plumpy’Sup for a small child is just 20 cents, less than a US postage stamp (44 cents).

Friday, March 2, 2012

How smart is your right foot? Or your left...


A friend / colleague forwarded this to me and I thought I should share. Interesting...