Understand.
Start from a real situation and reframe the problem set by RTBF.
02 / A team innovation project
CUDI.
What if a simple object helped us understand each other without interruption?
RTBF · university challengeMy role: innovationConcept & prototype
- Context
- A university team project based on a challenge proposed by RTBF.
- My contribution
- Exploring a solution and shaping a response to the availability problem.
- Outcome
- A concept, renderings and a prototype; CUDI is not a marketed product.
The challenge
Make availability visible.
As part of a university project, our team worked on problems proposed by RTBF. We imagined CUDI, the “availability cube”: a physical object that shows at a glance whether someone is available. My main role in the team was innovation.
The approach
From the question
to the object.
Give it shape.
The idea was to turn information that is often implicit into a tangible signal people can understand without a long explanation. Sketches, renderings and a prototype helped us test the form of that response.
Put it to the test.
This work let me practise very concrete innovation: start with a lived situation, reframe the problem and materialise a solution that can be shown and discussed.
What I learned
Innovation
is tested.
An idea grows stronger when it is drawn, made, tested in use and improved. That logic also informs how I develop WOAW and support other projects.
Let’s discuss your projectRendering of the CUDI concept. An academic team project based on a challenge set by RTBF; this is not a commercialised product.