This short story describes a real life example of an innovation. Here the author on her real life example guides readers on how to design innovations—starting from the idea—to the prototype and then—to implementation of the final product/service.
What are innovations? A simple definition is, that innovations are just solutions to problems. How to design innovations? Innovations require 3 types of creative endeavors: ideas, innovations, and prototypes, as below:
Ideas: Create idea, that is, find a solution to a problem
Innovations: Design innovation by transforming the idea/solution into an engineering blue print.
Prototypes: Build prototype from the engineering blue print to see how this innovation looks in physical form and test it to see how it works in real life environment.