Team: Grocery Grabber(?)
Problem: Many people find it hard to keep track of the different prices of groceries at stores, and never seem to know if they are getting a good value. It can also be frustrating to attempt locating products in stores as they comprised of so many aisles. People end up wandering around and backtracking to get different items, as well as constantly asking different employees for item locations. Traditional aisle signs only help vaguely when looking for items, but some categories are misleading and specialized items such as foreign foods are much more difficult to find as they could be in various aisles.
Users: Our target audience for this application would be anyone who shops at grocery stores and wants to better manage their money or their time. Our primary focus will be targeting this application towards college students who are on a budget and looking for the best prices on their groceries, as well as parents who are trying to plan the quickest and most cost efficient shopping trip to get food for their families.
Solution: We want to design an application that will make it easier for people to map out their shopping experiences. This could mean spreading out the user’s shopping list to many different stores to get the best deal, seeing the cheapest available brand at a certain store including user reviews, or mapping out your shopping trip within that store to make the most of your time. More specifically, the features of this mobile application would include a list that keeps track of a shopping list and can tell you what items have good prices at different stores. Within the stores, it can help you plan a route to retrieve the different items from the store. There will be a shopping list entry ui to enter the different items you want. You can scan barcodes of items you need to replace to automatically add them to the list, and they can be checked off whenever the grocery item is obtained. There will be a summary screen that shows potential grocery stores and information about the items and prices available at each store. Because the price to quality ratio of an item may be unfavorable, we would want to include a user rating system which shows how good each item is. Finally there will be a map view/directions view where it displays an efficient route to each item that is good to buy at the current store.
Roles and tasks:
Carly will generally be interested in holding the role of designer.
Jonathan will be the software engineer.
Liam will also be a software engineer and/or a test engineer.
Arash will be business analyst/project manager as well contributing to Testing.
Matt will .... help out as needed(?)
We decided upon these roles through reviewing our strengths and experience at past Co-Ops, and believe that this division of roles and strengths will help us be successful.
For this assignment: we all wrote the document collaboratively. Arash set up the website, and Jonathan posted the assignment to it.
Problem: Many people find it hard to keep track of the different prices of groceries at stores, and never seem to know if they are getting a good value. It can also be frustrating to attempt locating products in stores as they comprised of so many aisles. People end up wandering around and backtracking to get different items, as well as constantly asking different employees for item locations. Traditional aisle signs only help vaguely when looking for items, but some categories are misleading and specialized items such as foreign foods are much more difficult to find as they could be in various aisles.
Users: Our target audience for this application would be anyone who shops at grocery stores and wants to better manage their money or their time. Our primary focus will be targeting this application towards college students who are on a budget and looking for the best prices on their groceries, as well as parents who are trying to plan the quickest and most cost efficient shopping trip to get food for their families.
Solution: We want to design an application that will make it easier for people to map out their shopping experiences. This could mean spreading out the user’s shopping list to many different stores to get the best deal, seeing the cheapest available brand at a certain store including user reviews, or mapping out your shopping trip within that store to make the most of your time. More specifically, the features of this mobile application would include a list that keeps track of a shopping list and can tell you what items have good prices at different stores. Within the stores, it can help you plan a route to retrieve the different items from the store. There will be a shopping list entry ui to enter the different items you want. You can scan barcodes of items you need to replace to automatically add them to the list, and they can be checked off whenever the grocery item is obtained. There will be a summary screen that shows potential grocery stores and information about the items and prices available at each store. Because the price to quality ratio of an item may be unfavorable, we would want to include a user rating system which shows how good each item is. Finally there will be a map view/directions view where it displays an efficient route to each item that is good to buy at the current store.
Roles and tasks:
Carly will generally be interested in holding the role of designer.
Jonathan will be the software engineer.
Liam will also be a software engineer and/or a test engineer.
Arash will be business analyst/project manager as well contributing to Testing.
Matt will .... help out as needed(?)
We decided upon these roles through reviewing our strengths and experience at past Co-Ops, and believe that this division of roles and strengths will help us be successful.
For this assignment: we all wrote the document collaboratively. Arash set up the website, and Jonathan posted the assignment to it.