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Mission Prototyping – Accomplished!
Hapstick
February 7, 2019

Hello everyone! We had been unable to write a blog post last week - but there is a famous quote - " Be patient, Good things take time! " and [...]

Getting at it
AKANE
February 7, 2019

Dear readers, These last weeks we worked on different aspects of the prototype in order to validate our assumptions. We used the prototyping canva as a framework to guide us [...]

A week dedicated to interviews
CARING
February 4, 2019

Hi everyone! This week, we have made a lot of interviews. On wednesday, we have spoken with Pierre Weissenbach, the former head of care at La Source Hospital. He worked [...]

Holidays or CHIC ?
Tengo
February 4, 2019

Hey everyone, This week team Vukovi is on holidays but we are not forgetting about CHIC as we are all looking to test the desirability of our product. To do [...]

MVP and brainstorming
AKANE
February 2, 2019

Dear readers, We hope you are doing great! ZhuZhu team had quite a productive meeting last week! We discussed about our prototyping canvas and the feedback which we received from the [...]

Unum+Solum meet Guido
NOX
January 31, 2019

  Hello everyone! It has been quite a long time since our last post, but better late than never! 😉 The exams system is a bit different in Geneva and [...]

What is more appealing? Interview round
Tengo
January 31, 2019

Hey everybody! We have survived exams!!! Now we can relax for a little while, and use the time for CHIC too. Fortunately, we have a plan. After one of the best [...]

Reversal of situation
CARING
January 27, 2019

Hello everyone, This week our team encountered a reversal of situation.  Our idea of product which we tried to enforce by doing a lot of interviews, was presented by Philips [...]

Meetings, Milestone and Exams!
Hapstick
January 25, 2019

Hello to everyone! Apologies for publishing a late post but our engineers (Florian, Jonathan and Harshdeep) have been very busy putting together the design for the prototype and also with [...]

The ZhuZhu ready to Zuò
AKANE
January 25, 2019

Dear readers, The team finished their respective exam session and is ready to for 2019. As part of an assignment, each team member had to work on a reflexivity paper [...]

Meeting with the mentors!
CARING
January 20, 2019

Hello everybody ! This week was really intense for all members but we managed to find some time for our weekly meeting. We met in EPFL with our mentors so we [...]

New week, new hint
Tengo
January 20, 2019

Hi everyone, This week was quite calm in terms of CHIC program because of our respective exams. Nevertheless, we all started to collect the material we will need to make [...]

FogTeam was born !
KNEET
January 19, 2019

Today, we had the opportunity to meet each other and share all our ideas and issues for the milestone 1. In this sunny day, we also find our team name "FogTeam" based [...]

What about feelings?
NOX
January 17, 2019

Hi everybody, This week, we are having a lot of fundamental questions about feelings. It is hard to understand exactly what one feels when he misses someone, and even harder [...]

Work + Exam Life!
Hapstick
January 13, 2019

Hello to everyone!This week it was mostly about everyone preparing for their exams, but wait, we did find some time to do our meeting of the new year! Yay!In this [...]

An idea to discover
Tengo
January 13, 2019

Hey everybody! What a week! Except for getting excited for the little snow that fell on Lausanne the team got together to decide on the final idea and work on [...]

Back to work!
CARING
January 13, 2019

Hi everybody! I hope you are all well! At TΨ, we are finding back to normality after a little Christmas and New Year’s break. While this is the exam period [...]

Happy New Year CHIC Besties <3
CARING
January 6, 2019

Hello CHIC community! We wish you the best for this new year, and hope you are all doing great so far in your studying to achieve your semester. The next [...]

To new beginnings in 2019!
Hapstick
January 6, 2019

Hola CHIC community, We hope you all had a great start to the year! For 2019, we have our first meeting coming up in a few days with all the [...]

Hello 2019!
AKANE
January 6, 2019

[gallery ids="5009"] Hey! First of all: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !!! Just after Christmas, we had a great last meeting of 2018 hosted by Yael who took care of us [...]

And, like that, the new year begins!
Tengo
January 6, 2019

Dear CHIC community, We hope that you all had a great beginning of year! For our part this week we had our first reunion of 2019. This was quite hard [...]

Happy New Year
NOX
January 4, 2019

Hi everyone, We hope you had great Christmas, and we wish you a happy new year 2019 ! Our first meeting of this year was more productive than the last [...]

Last post of 2018 !
CARING
December 30, 2018

Hello to everyone! We hope you had great Christmas dinners with your family and friends and that you are ready for this new exciting 2019 year ! Each member of [...]

Happy Holidays!
Hapstick
December 23, 2018

Hello to everyone in the CHIC community! After the pitch at MassChallenge, its been more about finishing up the assignments and the semester for all of us at Snooze! Last [...]

Work in progress
CARING
December 23, 2018

Hi to everyone! This week, we met at ECAL to explore the surroundings in which the two designers of TΨ (Emilie and Pablo) usually work. After an initial tour, we [...]

From us all to you all, a very merry Christmas!
Tengo
December 23, 2018

Dear CHIC community, our team members have had a busy week with several assignments and exams. The three engineers: Vuk, Tomas and Antoni have also started thinking about a research [...]

Milestone 1 done: now is time to action!
Heptabox
December 21, 2018

Dear readers, Yesterday we had our Milestone 1 presentation. The aim was to provide to our supervisors an overview of the work accomplished since the beginning of the project. We [...]

Exploring a first solution
NOX
December 19, 2018

Hi everyone, As usual, we had our weekly meeting to discuss our advancement and the next steps to take, but this week we were more focused on the M&M's dispenser [...]

Countdown: -3 from Milestone 1
Heptabox
December 17, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Let's give you an update about our today 4th meeting. During this session the team discussed about the different "How might we.." that every member prepared. After [...]

Tough Questions at MassChallenge
Tengo
December 17, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Last Monday was our first pitch in front of a real jury. No need to say that the questions were very different that the ones we are [...]

From Opportunity space to ideation
CARING
December 16, 2018

Hey Everyone! This week got off a flying start in Masschallenge, where we were glad to receive more critics about our work. This week has been for us some kind [...]

Our first pitching experience at MassChallenge
Hapstick
December 16, 2018

[embed]http://vimeo.com/306663844[/embed]Hey readers ! Everything is going very fast in here and so many stuffs has happened since last time we wrote. Our project is going through and we are very [...]

No news, good news?
AKANE
December 16, 2018

Dear readers, It has been a long time since our last blog post!  Everything is going well for the ZhuZhu Team. After a great brainstorming session last weekend, we decided [...]

Finding and developing ideas
NOX
December 15, 2018

Hi everyone, Following the ideation workshop we had last week, we are still in the process of finding projects, so we did a lot of research on our theme and [...]

How might we….define our spaces ??
Heptabox
December 12, 2018

Dear readers, Last week we defined our opportunity space: the health system in Switzerland. During our third meeting the team discussed about the interview that each member conducted with several [...]

In and out
ecal, EPFL, Event, Flowlin, FLUID, Institution, Snooze, T-Ψ, ToyGether, UNIL, VUKOVI (ВУКОВИ), Zhu Zhu
December 10, 2018

A very busy evening for CHIC participants. We kicked-off with pitches from the 4 CHIC 2018-2019 teams in front of a jury of experts from industry (Peter Boehni, Daniel Brandenburger, [...]

Going back to the roots of food
Tengo
December 10, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Another intensive week has passed. Monday we had the ideation evening, where through quantitative brainstorming we came out with interesting ideas. We spent also some time refining [...]

Getting ready for MASSCHALLENGE!
CARING
December 9, 2018

Hi everyone, After a creative ideation workshop, we had our weekly meeting on Tuesday. Urbain welcomed us to the premises of his association, The Forum, on the EPFL Campus (this [...]

Milestone 2: Ready, Steady, Go !
NOX
December 8, 2018

  Hello everyone! This week started with a new workshop to launch us on the new Milestone Objectives: Ideation! Now that we identified our opportunity space, and work to refine [...]