WUX App Design - Richard Roach

Date: 1st August 2022 Personas I have constructed 3 personas based on research I have undertaken. This research has found that the majority of the board game community are Caucasian men between the ages of 18-45. My personas reflect this demographic while also introducing more variety. I used UXPressia's definition of personality types to define user outlook and behaviour to add more nuance to my personas while retaining usability - https://uxpressia.com/blog/personality-type-uxpressia Primary Persona Name : Ethan Hawkings Role : Board Game Enthusiast Personality: Rational Demographic : 18, Student, Male Background :  Ethan and his friends are students who meet often to play board games in a social, and sometimes competitive setting. As group members bring their own board games for each other to play and learn about, costs among the group are kept somewhat low. Recently, the group has grown tired of the same games being played day after day. To remedy this, Ethan has offered ...

Date: 31st July 2022 Competitor Research Our product is a C2C marketplace application for board games. C2C refers to 'consumer-to-consumer', meaning members of the public can act as vendors, selling new or second-hand products to other members of the public, who act as buyers. Other companies operating this way, offering a platform for users to buy and sell on, include: TradeMe Started in New Zealand in 1999 by Sam Morgan, TradeMe allows users to list objects for sale, set a price as well as add details about the listed item. Besides allowing users to sell to each other, third-party vendors have also started listing items on the platform, moving it more in the direction of a general ecommerce platform.  Users can either set a fixed, 'Buy Now' price, or set the sale up as an online auction, with a minimum reserve price to be met before a sale is approved. The platform requires users to enter their details, such as their name, email, a form of payment, and their address. ...

  Date: 28th July 2022 Requirements For the WUX App Design Summative Assessment, we are required to create a niche market application to sell a product of our choosing. We have decided to focus on board games as our chosen product. As per the brief, there are certain functional requirements our application will need to meet to be considered successful. Broadly speaking, we can approach user requirements in two categories, buyer requirements and seller requirements. Brief Requirements Sellers need to be able to: Create / list an item Populate listed items with details Set a price View their listed items Update item details if necessary Remove an item from being listed Provide contact information, before or after a sale Buyers need to be able to: View listed products Ask questions about the products Leave comments on the product page Leave comments on the sellers profile page Additional Requirements Past the requirements stated in the brief, we in Team Ludo would like to see: The a...

Date: 28th July 2022 Stakeholders For our project Team Ludo have chosen to focus on the board games market; and to this end, create a platform app allowing users to buy and sell board games. Taken as a real-life project means considering two groups of stakeholders - internal and external. Internal Stakeholders These include the developers of the app and administrative staff, as well as any other staff involved in the planning, creation, maintenance or marketing of the application. The people responsible for the direction of these staff (managerial staff) can also be considered internal stakeholders. Depending on the scope of this application, and whether or not third parties have chosen to fund our app, they would also form part of this group of internal stakeholders. For simplicity, we can group all of these parties under the Team Ludo group, and have the company and its constituents form an internal stakeholder. In short, an internal stakeholder is anyone with a direct link to or sta...

Here's a rundown of the first week of Team Ludo's group project for the Yoobee WUX S3 App Design module. This rundown covers the 21st of July (Thursday) to the 27th of July (Wednesday). 21st July Richard and Beste team up, forming what will be called Team Ludo. 22nd July Our project is decided; we will build a niche market app focusing on board games.  This includes card games, but not board game supplies such as dice or miniatures. This application will allow users to buy and sell board games on the platform, as well as view information on these board games and filter according to different criteria. 23rd July - Saturday Beste created a GitHub repository and invited me to it. 24th July - Sunday Nothing to report for this day -  25th July Anjileen joins the team and is invited to the GitHub repository. Anjileen creates both a Discord chat for communication as well as a Trello board to list tasks to be completed. Miguel, the lecturer, creates a Google Doc for students to list w...