Hello everyone, this post is about some updates to our Neighbourhood interface. We now have the Reward Points pages and complementary My Account page according to Mariam’s post. As Mariam posted yesterday, we introduced Reward Points as the result of our discussion, so we need to have relevant pages to for …
Neighbourhood reward points are fundamental to our user engagement and business model. They incentivize our individual users to make use of the Neighbourhood app, and to try new things in their neighbourhoods. They incentivize leisure businesses to become Neighbourhood clients (publicly known as partners), because they know that new people will be …
When you sign up as a Neighbourhood user, the following details will be stored about you. A core aspect of Neighbourhood is protecting user privacy, and allowing users to divulge their real names to one another, only when they feel comfortable. Account Username (pseudonym): A name you will be known by …
For our Neighborhood project we have considered the use of blockchain to store data for the web application. But after carrying out a feasibility study we have come to realize that blockchain technology is not feasible because there is a high level of cost to implement, specifically around the issue …
On Neighbourhood, we will have commercial clients, who are incentivized to join up because we send Neighbourhood users to their services, which may be a hotel, restaurant, or leisure establishment. Our business model relies on affiliate fees from these commercial clients, which will be known as Neighbourhood partners by the …
Neighbourhood will have a user identity and interests data model, that gives users a high level of flexibility in their ability to store their details and interests. Ensuring that their privacy can be protected, and personal details disclosed in a very specific, controlled way. For example, as user’s real name …
Graph theory provides a way of using graphs to represent networks, and is often used in the development and study of online social networks. Image source: freepik At the core of graph theory is understanding the nature of connections, their relationship to one another, and calculating the importance of each …
Hello everyone, in this post I will outline the process of application interface design and how I have applied it to the Neigbourhood application. In the beginning, I will introduce the design tool I am using. In the first section, ‘The Ideas of Design’, I will list the principles of …
Our team is considering the benefits of implementing blockchain for user privacy in the context of our application connecting people together locally. Blockchain has been subject to a huge amount of excitement in the spheres of business and technology in recent years. This highly cited book, summarizes this feeling, and …
Our project team are using Trello project management software. Trello is a collaboration tool that enables the organization of a project on a board, displaying tasks for team members, and the status of each task(s) that they are working on. For our project we have created columns based on the …
