Documented by Rishabh Sharma and Anushka Jain
Grid Design Studio, by Squareboat, held an in-person 24-hour Designathon where we were provided with a platform to experience design problems.
The design brief was: “Design For Sustainable Future”
Back story: While travelling from Roorkee to Gurgaon for this designathon, 4 of our friends travelled wallet-free, only to find ourselves in a cash debit later to pay the fare for our bus ride. The conductor refused to accept UPI or card payments. Things got so bad that we had to ask strangers riding the bus to lend us money, which we paid back through UPI.
This incident led us to decide to Make the Payment Ecosystem Sustainable.
We narrowed down problems that need sustainable solutions that we can attempt to solve in 48 hours.
If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions. ~Einstein
Finally, we listed three major problems that we were eager to solve. Here, Rishabh and I present a glimpse of the same. We got our faces on the floor till the morning, but our enthusiasm was high🕧