Sunday, December 16, 2012

Green Community(Team 5)-lesson learned

In the process of developing our MVP, we received a lot of feedback from classmates and friends who are interested in urban agriculture. In sum, there are several kinds of feedback:

1.       Content
(1)    Lack of short summaries explaining the main ideas of each section of our website
---We have summarized each section and let users know their functions clearly. Especially a brief description of our mission is written near the title of our website. In the near future, we will prepare a video (icon) on a top corner, telling new visitors our goals, blueprint, history and current state, etc and give people more expectations and visual incitement.
(2)    Lack of a list of possible crops and relevant guides in growing
---we have added the plant guides of tomatoes and other vegetables will be listed soon.
(3)    Short of guidance in compost, such as how to make it easier to fertilize plants
--- Guiding how to fertilize plants is a significant function of our project, especially prompting to use left-over as fertilizer. We will ask some experts for their suggestions on it.

2.       Layout
(1)    Should use links to related subjects inside posts, guides and all written material so people don’t have to scroll up and down the page
---Due to the constraints of the current platform, a blog template, we cannot make use of hyperlinks to connect the materials, which also makes the whole layout a little vague. So we have decided to switch to an advanced platform later on.
(2)    Should highlight critical subjects

3.       Marketing
It is our mission to help people who like urban agriculture plant easily so marketing our website is a most important task for us. Besides social networks, such as Facebook, twitter and so on, we will try our best to cooperate with relevant NGOs or communities to market our website.

In a word, the most significant apperception of using the concierge method is we can easily find out our shortcomings and improve it thanks to our users. 


Thank you, all classmates.  

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