Why should a project be relatable to a broad audience?

Why should a project be relatable to a broad audience?

A relatable project reduces the effort needed to understand its purpose. In a course, demonstration, or team discussion, a familiar scenario lets people focus on how AI supports development rather than first learning a complicated domain. Broad relatability is useful for communication, not a requirement for every successful product.

Make the user problem easy to understand

Most people can understand the difficulty of coordinating an event: dates change, responsibilities overlap, and responses arrive through different channels. A wedding-management example turns those familiar concerns into concrete product workflows.

An audience can quickly see why an organizer needs an event list, why a collaborator needs assigned tasks, and why a guest needs a simple RSVP flow. This shared understanding makes design and implementation decisions easier to discuss.

Support meaningful comparison and feedback

When the scenario is accessible, viewers can evaluate whether a feature solves the stated problem. They can notice confusing navigation, missing states, or unclear permissions without specialist training.

Relatable examples also make technical ideas tangible. A database relationship becomes the connection between a wedding and its events; authorization becomes the rule that one organizer cannot edit another organizer’s records.

The scenario should still be specific enough to avoid vague, universal requirements.

Keep audience familiarity separate from product fit

A specialized product can be valuable even when outsiders find its domain unfamiliar. Its success depends on understanding the intended users and solving their problem effectively.

For an educational project, optimize for clarity and useful engineering examples. For a real product, prioritize evidence from the target audience. AI can help adapt explanations for newcomers without flattening the domain’s important details.