From Challenge to Prototype: A Look Back at the MPD Product Design Fair

🚀 From Challenge to Prototype: A Look Back at the MPD Product Design Fair

On January 24, we witnessed the culmination of 12 weeks of innovation, iteration, and impact at the MPD Product Design Fair at CDTM. Three teams tackled real-world challenges in critical industries, developing user-centered solutions with the support of our incredible partners: Personio Foundation, E.ON, and ecoplanet 💙.

💡 The journey?
It was all about understanding user needs, iterating fast, and bringing ideas to life - a process that turned uncertainty into structured, intuitive problem-solving.

Hear it from the students:
🎤 "MPD taught me how to go from a vast problem space to a product prototype. It takes countless interviews, making assumptions, throwing them overboard, ideating, validating, and just starting to build! What once seemed like an obscure process became a structured and intuitive approach." – Felicia Preuss-Neudorf (Fall ‘24), Team Personio Foundation
🎤 "The biggest takeaway for me? Understanding what it take - business, technical, and team-wise - to build a product people actually want. From interviews to user feedback, to commercialization." – Agustin Coppari Hollmann (Fall ‘24), Team Ecoplanet

🎉 Huge congratulations to all teams for their hard work and dedication and to our amazing partners for their support!
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