Challenges & Learnings

Before even landing on our idea for CapMap, we originally had a very different starting project involving a portable charging hub device including retractable cords. After our initial presentation's critiques, we took our project back to the drawing board with a more open brainstorming session, landing on collective pain points we found within the topic of traveling - and the rest is history! This reinforced the concept that typically, one of the hardest things is mustering up the activation energy to make a pivot. From there, that change usually ends up changing your course for the better and processes begin working much more smoothly.

Additional challenges we ran into stemmed from our diversity in majors, and therefore different schedules & skillsets. With dual majors and student athletes in our mix, schedules often misaligned, however we persevered with a collaborative organized schedule & open communication. Also, with varying skillsets from our very different majors, using Framer (digital prototyping software) involved a learning curve for all of us but at various levels. We worked through this through splitting up our work into more manageable individual portions, honing in on each others' unique soft skills that could connect well to our final deliverables, and always being open to helping each other out in an capacity we could.