Designing With Web - Part 3: week 1
Groupe Subject : Encourage road trips experiences for students thanks to social networks
Group "92"
- "Ilona PARIS": my mind map about the subject
- "Alice GOUZALCH": my mind map about the subject
- "Emma OUMEDDOUR": my mind map about the subject
- "Léonard DIORE": my mind map about the subject
- "Martin GRANGER-VEYRON": my mind map about the subject
Project 1: "Tinder-like" app to organise travel groups
Context
when? where? who? why?
When is the project working? The application offers its service throughout the year, as different schooling systems have different calendars. However, we are aware that the project will attract more users over long vacations like the July-August period for European users.
Where will the project function? For starters, our application will see its activity develop itself in Europe. The project can and should be applicable elsewhere, but it would be easier to first be in a zone like the Schengen one, in which many border-crossing issues are dealt with already.
Who is the main target? Students who are willing to meet new people, discover new places and learn new languages.
Why is this project relevant? Our project answers to problems students may encounter during these types of travels: who are you travelling with? Is it safe to go someplace by yourself? If you’re travelling with some friends of yours, are you really discovering new things, getting out of your comfort zone, and progressing with your language learning? Discover how the platform works (below) to understand its relevance
Target
for whom?
Our application’s aim is to guide a user’s will to form a group of students with who he or she will travel. To sign up, a user must be a registered student, with a student card and student email address. Hereby, we are putting together an international community of students who all crave for travelling and learning new languages. The project could be financed thanks to certain schools which are willing to send its students on these trips. Therefore, the first main target would be students in those financially helping schools. However, it quickly extends towards other students from other systems: the more users there are, the better the app can function
Service offered
what? how?
Our platform is very simple :
- you create a profile, verified by your student status, in which you can give information like your hobbies, the language you want to learn, the places you want to go to, the places where you’ve been already, the period of the year during which you are available for the trip, how much you are willing to pay, what transport you are willing to take, the routine you want to adopt (would you rather discover the nightlife and sleep late in the morning or go to bed early to enjoy a full day of visiting the next morning) etc etc.
- After that, the application works kind of like Tinder: you are shown profiles of other users, with whom you can choose to match or not. However, the profiles you are shown are not picked randomly. An algorithm picks the profile that are most relevant for you depending on the primary data you entered in the first step. This way, you won’t struggle to find people with whom you could travel.
- Next, when you have matched with a few users, a group chat will be created for you to speak with your future co-travelers. You can have as many as 4 or 5 group chats at once.
- The last steps are yet to be figured out and might require help from other structures, companies or apps: Airbnb for the housing, Comparabus for the travelling tickets, Lydia for putting some money together... Our project could invest in imitating those platforms or could ask for the possibility of partnerships with them
- Ublooo : This is a tool that offers the chance to post insights about trips wether it is comments or images. Thanks to former comments and relations with the community Ublooo personnalizes next trips for the user. Unlike this service our project relies on the student's community and therefore enables users to feel safer when traveling.
- Befergo : Beforgo focuses on the preparation of the trip using the skills of travel agencies. If the preparation side of the trip is the same, our project is first and foremost a plateform to connect students whishing to learn new languages and travel.
- Voyagesétudiants.com : It is one of the leader of student traveling which offers many solutions especially the ones that students can afford. It is more based on student's purchasing power but does offer to connect student between one another.
- https://euobserver.com/education/139735 : This artciles underlines the importance of student's mobility in Europe
- https://www.claimcompass.eu/blog/learn-language-travel/ : This artciles points out the benefits of learning a new language when traveling which is related to the main goal of our project.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXpeh5ihDmM This video was made by a ferquent user of social media when organizing trips.She declares that communities share experiences or pictures that can help when planning a trip.
- Map interactive snap : The app Snapchat, one of the biggest and most popular social media platforms in the world today has launched an interactive map option that allows people to see where their friends are at current time. Difference with us : we would like to create the same system but only for students from schools, universities, etc. And the app will show you every students that are located nearby.
- Facebook : it has an option called “friends nearby” that display the localization of your friends located nearby. You can find this function on your Android or iPhone. However this function is not available worldwide and you already need to know the person in order to see its location.
- Also a lot of social medias offer the possibility to add a localization through posting photos, medias, text, etc.
- Foursquare --> swarm : Foursquare is a social networking service available for common smartphones, including iPhone, BlackBerry and Android-powered phones. Once you download the Foursquare app to your smartphone, it finds your friends in your contacts and in your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Once you have added friends to your Foursquare account, the app will notify you about what your friends are doing and vice versa. Foursquare is primarily for letting your friends know where you are and figuring out where they are. Secondarily, it's for collecting points, prize "badges," and eventually, coupons, for going about your everyday business. Our app will be similar in some ways but does not enable to meet new people. It facilitates the interaction once you already have the contact of your friend. Moreover, it is not specialized for students.
- +50% d'étudiants dans le monde en 10 ans https://blog.headway-advisory.com/chiffres-cles-campus-france-2019/ ; show the importance of the growing number of students across the world
- How to create an interactive map https://maphub.net/ , gives us information on how to create interactive maps
- International students need more chance to socialize , https://dailymail.com , gives us information on the growing need of sociabilization among international students
Identity
describe the universe around your service by creating a mood board and name your service accordingly
Benchmark
List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project
References
books/films/articles/...
Project 2: The student interactive map
Context
when? where? who? why?
When is the project working? We want to create an application that connects students during their time abroad: as a break, internship or exchange, we want to create an interactive map that aims to be used daily for all kinds of interactions between students. It is therefore a tool for socialization, which is used during a trip, on a regular basis, throughout the year.
Where will the project function? In order to frame the offer, we would like students who have the possibility to use this application to obtain the agreement of their faculty. As a result, the application will be used in countries where registered schools are located.
Who is the main target? Students currently on exchange, break or internship abroad, who are attached to a university or school registered in our application.
Why is this project relevant? Our project is relevant because it responds to a need that has not yet been met. The problem we have to answer is "Encouraging roadtrips experience for students through social network", and this subject has allowed us to realize that there is currently no social network reserved for this experience. By creating one, we centralize interactions between students, which until now has been done through traditional social networks (instagram, facebook...) and which lacks personalization and supervision. By offering a service that is exclusively reserved for students (identity verified via a login with the university e-mail address), we differentiate ourselves because we reassure the population concerned, as well as parents who see their children travel around the world more and more often. This application is therefore relevant because it provides a framework for student interaction, encourages sharing, creates group synergies and leads to discovery and international openness.
Target
for whom?
The target of this product is students who go abroad as part of their studies, who may have some apprehension about being alone in an unknown country, and who would be open to meet other students from different schools. An increasingly important target due to the strong growth in mobility from the age of 18-25: +28% in five years, representing an impressive figure of 5.1 million students worldwide. Our target is also being refined because it will only concern students whose school is registered in our database. The school must be a partner of our application for its students to use it, which makes it possible to secure the perimeter and ensure that the meetings held concern the target audience.
Service offered
what? how?
The concept is simple: we want to create an application that is accessible exclusively to students from
our partner schools. This application is in the form of an interactive map, on which are presented the
students who agree to share their location. At the time of registration, each student creates his or her
own avatar and personalized profile. Once the "student" profile has been verified with our services,
he or she can then use the application's functionality.
At any time of the day, he can choose the option "location sharing" or "invisible mode". Depending on his choice,
his avatar will be displayed or not on the map. This map, like any smartphone map, will inform campuses, bars, restaurants
and other facilities. Places with high traffic will be indicated by means of thermal animation. It will then be possible
to click on the establishment and see the people present there. By clicking on a member's profile, you can find the following
information: username, surname, first name, schools of origin, nationality and hobbies and passion (if provided).
This social network then facilitates exchanges and allows some students who have not yet found their way to meet people,
visit together and expand their network. A secure concept thanks to the exclusivity granted to students, adapted to their
desires thanks to the possibility of instantly unlocking the invisible mode when they do not want to appear on the map,
and customizable, thanks to the creation of their avatar.
Identity
describe the universe around your service by creating a mood board and name your service accordingly
Benchmark
List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project
References
books/films/articles/...