Week 7 - Coding of the prototype and receiving feedback

Week 7

Week seven began with some good news since we received an answer from the elbnb. Their email gave some interesting additional information before we started to build the prototype. We had a small conversation with the Virta contact person as well and we agreed to continue the convesation later. One spesific issue that came to light was the identification process. We had not given many thoughts to that part of the customer joyrney. However, it is very essential that the plugs are used correctly and by the right persons.

We felt ready to start building the very first version of our prototype. At this point it was clear that the prototype would be a small part of the final app, as the course staff suggested. We decided to focus first on the reservation and usage of the plugs. Furthermore, we wanted to have most of the UI ready.

Thus, on our meeting on thursday our recommended outcome was decided to be as followed:

1) Login / Register page
2) Actual Map
3) Possibility to reserve and use different plugs and see their details
4) Sidebar to demonstrate the UI and other functionalities
5) A demonstration of the payment system

On Friday we received information on the lecture about the future presentation and schedule so all the course arrangements are now very clear.

One important issue was that we should be able to build more functions on the prototype when the course continues on upcoming weeks. In addition, the app should be usable in our mobile devices so we could show it to potential users.

At this point everything seems to be just fine. Much of the analysis is done and Computer Science students seemed to be confident that we will have an awesome app. Next week is about presenting the app to the audience and testing the UI both internally and externally.