# Conversations

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At various moments throughout this exploration, ideas, hypotheses, designs will assume a form that ***appears*** simultaneously:

1. Stable and solid enough to build upon 
2. Definitive and clear enough for other people to react to

This page offers an overview of the conversations I've hosted/led/facilitated/convened around these "moments." 

## [Phase #2](/pings/conversations/phase-2.md)

During the winter of 2022, [David](https://www.davidgoligorsky.com/index.html) and I brought the network of ideas [the app](/pings/app.md) into a shape people could observe and experience by creating a tappable prototype.\
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To decide whether we would continue investing time and energy into making the app a reality, I hosted a series of conversations as a way to explore/answer the following question:

> *Do people see themselves using this app within their current, everyday lives alongside everything else they're doing?*

### [Phase #1](/pings/conversations/phase-1.md)

Between **August 2021** and **August 2022**, I talked with \~30 people who I knew to be intentional and creative. 

I was motivated to develop a sense for whether the [need I had noticed](/pings/needs.md) was a need other people experienced as well. This way, we ([David](https://www.davidgoligorsky.com/index.html) and I) could gauge the [the solution's ](/pings/app.md)potential appeal and decide whether the need was a stable/durable enough reference point to orient the design of the app around.

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