It is through mindmaps that we started to work on this project, in order to understand how to best grasp the problematic linked to the emergence of green transportation.
In order to enter the subject as much as possible and to understand the stakes surrounding the world of tomorrow, we decided to establish MindMaps, to share our research, to understand the ecological evolution and to act at best on the population.
Always in a logic of sustainable development and awareness, we started a first application allowing users to know the carbon reduction they make by walking or cycling.
The application also allowed for discounts to be tracked so that rewards such as vouchers or discounts at local businesses could be offered to encourage the use of this service.
The best way to enhance soft mobility is to make people share their own soft mobility equipments. We then thought about bikes.
From that moment on, we focused on the Bike to Bike application, which has the capacity to help each other and to put forward soft mobility much more easily than Save & Walk.
We did tests with potential users in order to improve our application. Therefore, we reached out to twelve people in order to have and outside and professional opinion. Each testers were family members, roomates, etc. Each of them having an interest towards design, web and applications.
Our idea has been put through the test of twelve different peoples. We will here provide with general feedbacks that really helped us improve our application.
The most constructive feedback was about the design and the logos. Some margins needed to be reduced or at least uniformized. The "rating" part of each bike were far too small, we had to make them bigger.
As far as the concept itself was concerned, our "countryside"-based users generally liked the idea and found it great. However there were a big concern about the safety part. How could we be sure that we won't rent a broken bike ?
Our answer was to provide our users with bike ratings by previous renters. Of course this is not the only solution. One interresting way would be to make bail (=caution) available.
