Week 9: Main page visualization

After three months of ideas and mental drills, we got to the point where we need to think about how our product will look.

This week the group was divided into two groups, each one focused on its specialties: Half of the team - Gal, Barak, and Maor, had a workshop with Hezi Taniani about “Figma”- a tool for designing wireframes and features. They learned about the principal of UX and UI and how to utilize the system in order to create an initial prototype.

Whereas the other half - Ori and Chen, were exposed to different APIs and technologies in order to open our minds to the countless ways our product could behave.

For five hours, we got together in a single zoom meeting, to visualize how the main screen of our app will look and behave. Using Figma, we sketched a draft of the first few steps of the application- the outcome is shown in the following picture:

According to the mentors’ feedback, we decided to expand our target users. Their claim was that our target audience is a small and limited one, and people who have established their political opinion would not benefit from our product at all.

In order to assert that claim, we created and distributed a questionnaire targeting people who identify themselves as either left-wing or right-wing- those who actually had an established political opinion. The main purpose was to verify if they are interested in reading articles from the opposite side of the political map, or either to get a platform that collects for them reported the news that is consistent with their beliefs.

As of now, the results do not show any consolidated conclusions. Stay tuned to our next blog entry.