Transforming from Designer to Entrepreneur — 5 Steps to validate business ideas.

No one is born to throw out great ideas, but as you gained more experience and confidence on throwing ideas, you will discover a pattern, a pattern that can lead you to success — That’s my story.

As a designer, we all have great potential to become a great entrepreneur. We are all creative people and a lot of ideas come to our minds every minute. The more you dig into design, the more you will find that it is highly linked with the mindset of being an entrepreneur.

The only thing you will have to sort out is organizing your thoughts, and try to turn an idea in your head into something realistic.

After participating in so many business competitions and handling business consultations, I found that formulating and evaluating a business idea is very similar to what we do in practice as a designer.

Here are the five main steps that I took to initiate a business idea.

1. Customer needs come first

Always, when you want to start a business, you have to think of the customers first. What is their need…