Verifying Home-Grooming Business Idea

Abstract

The report explains how service design process help in verifying a business idea by testing a prototype and visualise the business idea with a business model canvas. Barbering services has not changed for a long time, a new service idea that consists of app development is presented. The app help users to receive their haircuts at their place of residence and select amongst different individual barbers with different prices, skills and experience level, that will help the users to potentially save time travelling from and to the barbershop and by saving the queueing time, furthermore, it can help create more jobs to barbers and give them the opportunity to manage their own times and do their own market- ing on the platform. The idea is to be tested by developing showcasing a prototype that reflect the business idea to potential users who are most likely to use the app and gather their feedback on its features, the idea itself and their haircut habits. The objective of the study is to use the collected insights that will then help to update the prototype and visualise the insights in a business model canvas that will help guide the business and bring the information together. All the process will be done following the guidelines of service design and its tools