Development progress

We have been making product development progress on the solar lamp project; Innogetic Technology has done some good engineeing work refining the details of the product design. So we now have a completed product spec and a conceptual design model. The team is on schedule to finish the initial design by the end of July; after that we will work on sourcing and building the prototype.

End user testing to find the answer

In our conference call this week with our development partner, Innogetic, they pointed out that the lighting power spec might be too high power. I asked them to run some user scenario testing to find out an optimal lighting level. Once we find the optimal lighting level from user scenario testing (basically we qualitatively test to find what level of light is needed to read and study), then we can properly size the battery and the solar panel to match. 
Questions like this should always consider the end-user because that is what is most important in any product development.