This blog documents the evolution of our project. You can navigate the blog using the contents provided below, the headers at the top of this page or simply as a standard blog. We have more detailed categories on the right of the page and have used tags so you can view specific posts about particular topics.
Contents
Introduction: An introduction to our project, name and what we aim to solve for our users.
Be Seated: Introduction
Why ‘Be Seated’ : Naming the Project
What we aim to solve: Terrible Seats
Team Management: Posts related to how our idea evolved and how we managed our time.
Assignment Schedule
Oral History Part 1: First meeting and Idea sharing
Oral History Part 2: Sketching out the Idea and Team Organisation
Oral History Part 3: Challenges and decision of website’s design
Oral History Part 4: The Final Meeting & Dragon’s Den Prep
Literature: Academic Literature, Contextual Literature, Literature on Social Networks in general and News Items.
Academic Literature
Related Academic Work 1 – Connecting to Change the World
Related Academic Work 2 – Mark Zuckerberg’s Secret on HR
Related Academic Work 3 – Reviews Impact
Related Academic Work 4: Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner
Related Academic Work 5: Reviewing the Influence of Online Reviews
Related Academic Work 6: Crowdsourcing in 2014: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Related Academic Work 7: Financial Incentives and the “Performance of Crowds”
Contextual Literature
The Entertainment Industry: Theatre
The Entertainment Industry: Concerts & Comedy
Economics: How TripAdvisor Generates Revenue
Crowds and Be Seated: A crowded market?
Crowds and Be Seated: When to use Crowds
Power and Be Seated
Trust and Be Seated
Privacy in Be Seated
The Long right or wrong tail?
The Tipping Point : Ways to Popularise Be Seated
Literature on Social Networks
Social Networks: What they are and their importance
The History of Early Social Networks
Social Networks and the Crowd
News
News: Links to related news items
News: Changes to Google Search – ‘mobilegeddon’
News: Twitter vs. Trolls
News: The Design Trends in 2015
News: Age affects choice of social network
Business Plan: Posts relating to all aspects relating to the Business Plan of ‘Be Seated’.
Business Plan: 1) Value Proposition
Business Plan: 2) Clients Segment
Business Plan: 3) Channels
Business Plan: 4) Clients relation
Business Plan: 5) Income source
Business Plan: 6) Key Resources
Business Plan: 7) Key activities and functions
Business Plan: 8) Key partners
Business Plan: 9) Cost structure
CANVAS
Crowds and Be Seated: Crowd Business Models
Promotion & Marketing of Be Seated
Analysis: Including analysis of similar services, overviews of standards and protocols, features, constraints, user roles, user incentives, user scenarios and ethics.
Analysis of similar services
Analysis of Similar Websites: SeatPlan and SeatGuru
Analysis of Similar Websites: yelp.com
Overviews of standards and protocols
Overview of Standards and Protocols
Users
User Roles
User Stories
User Incentives and Be Seated
Scenarios
Scenarios-Search
Scenarios- Review a Seat
Scenarios – Check Seat Reviews
Features
Features
Requirements
Requirements- Functional
Requirements – Non-Functional
Integration and Constraints
API Integration
API Integration-Facebook
API Integration – Google Maps
Constraints
Ethics
Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Social Networking
Social and Ethical Considerations of Be Seated
Design: Posts exploring the current logo and technical designs of the project as well as posts on future designs of ‘Be Seated’.
Logos
Tips for Logo Designs
Be Seated Logos
How we designed the Be Seated logo.
Activity Diagrams
Activity Diagram (Search)
Activity Diagram (Attend Events)
Activity Diagram (Review a Seat)
Activity Diagram- Administrator (Take Action for Reported Messages)
Activity Diagram- Administrator (Add Event to the List of Events)
Sequence Diagrams
Sequence Diagram – User (Search)
Sequence Diagram – User (Login/Register)
Sequence Diagram – User (Create a Review)
Sequence Diagram – Administrator (Admin)
User Pages
User Pages – Storyboards (Homepage)
User Pages – Storyboards (Venue Page)
User Pages – Storyboards (Seat Review Page)
User Pages – Storyboards (My Events Page)
User Pages – Storyboards (Create a Review Page)
User Pages – Storyboards (Login/Register Page)
User Pages – Storyboard (About Page)
Administrator Pages
Administrator Pages – Storyboards (Reported Messages)
Administrator Pages – Storyboards (Events Page)
Administrator Pages – Storyboards (Create New Event Page)
Administrator Pages – Storyboards (Edit Event Page)
Sitemaps
Sitemaps – Users
Sitemaps – Administrator
Architecture Design
Future Designs
Future Design: Semantic Web & Be Seated
Ontology Design – Be Seated
Evaluation: Consisting of survey results and analysis, Dragon’s Den preparation and discussing the future of ‘Be Seated’.
Survey
Ethics Approval
Survey Results
Survey Analysis
Dragon’s Den
Ideas for Dragon’s Den
Dragon’s Den Overview
The Future
The Future of Be Seated
Future Features
About us
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