- The interns decided on a pretty broad problem at the end of last week: Some average coffee drinkers don’t want to be average. They need clear, accessible information on how to make the most of their coffee tools and improve their cup o’ joe.
- Their goal this week was to conduct a one-week product definition and strategy phase.
- When they met Monday, they start devising a research plan (which Caroline lead).
- They've conducted a whole bunch of research (interviewed 15+ people, ~90 survey responses)
- Based on findings from their research, they revised their problem statement, settled on a concept and agreed to a feature list last night.
- It seems like everyone is feeling good about where we are now.
- It's been a little stressful.
- Casual coffee drinkers would improve the quality of their personal coffee with awareness of low-lift ways to do so.
- Create a responsive web application powered by a custom Rails CMS that provides recommendations to at-home coffee makers for improving coffee quality based on a user’s current coffee-making method, or their preferences/constraints.
- Users can input methods / tools in a questionnaire and see content matching their input to improve their method / tools, and “tid-bit” recommendations matching their method / tool.
- Users can input preferences / constraints and see recommendations for a brewing method
- Users can explore content on the site in an interactive way (search, filter, etc.)
- Users can comment on posts
- Admins can create posts
- Admins can add content to posts
- Admins can associate a post to one or many methods / tools used for search, filter and sort
- Admins can publish posts
- Admins can mark a certain post as “trending” and it displays in a prominent way.
- Pages recommending simple adjustments to users based on current user methods / tools
- Pages walking them through best-practices for different brew methods ** Pros/Cons (Time, Budget, Ease-of-use (including how easy it is to clean)) ** Include environmental impact notes?
- “Tid-bit” recommendations that match a single methods / tools
- Strategy work (here's a problem, how do we come up with a creative solution?) is new for most of them
- Operating in a realm of not-knowing is uncomfortable
- Condensed timeline
- Waning excitement about the problem
- Getting used to working together
- This is Week 2 of the 9-week project.
- They are coming up with a week-by-week project plan today.
- They are presenting their work this week to the advisors tomorrow.