Cross-Validation

First Problem - Antonio De La Vega

Description/solution and rationale

Zona G is a neighbourhood in Bogotá known for it's fancy restaurants and for atracting a lot of tourists. Antonio chose the problem involving the big amount of queues there are on popular restaurants around this zone. This is a notable problem around this area, where the amount of people waiting and the lack of information generates a lot of traffic there.

Antonio's plan is to generate an online marketplace where people can see what restaurants are available around the area based on a score placed by the community. Also, people would be able to see the amount of people that are gathered around certain restaurant in a particular moment.

Calification

Task	Obtained score	Score value
Timing	5	5
Blog	5	5
Personas	5	5
Personas template	15	15
Context canvas: personas	10	10
Context canvas: environmental conditions	5	5
Context canvas: sensors	5	5
Context canvas: devices	10	10
Context canvas: constraints (devices)	5	5
Context canvas: interfaces	5	5
Context canvas: backend services	10	10
Context canvas: constraints (backend)	5	5
Writing	15	15
TOTAL	100	100

Personal Reflection

Personally, I like the problem and the solution proposed by Antonio, because I live around the area and I am aware of the constant struggle it is to get by to one place to another while going through this zone in lunch/dinner hours. The solution proposed can effectively decrease the amount of people gathered in a single restaurant by informing the users about other options for their lunch or dinner plans.

Second Problem - Sneider Velandia

Description/solution and rationale

Sneider focused the problem around the long queues that clients have to make in order to pay the products they want to buy in a supermarket. This is a recurring problem in all of the supermarkets in Bogotá. 

The solution that Sneider is proposing is a mechanism where the customer manually registers the product he wants to buy and when he gets to the cashier he only has to pay, without registering anything. Aditionally, the app can provide the user about the localization of the products he wants.

Calification

Task	Obtained score	Score value
Timing	5	5
Blog	5	5
Personas	5	5
Personas template	15	15
Context canvas: personas	10	10
Context canvas: environmental conditions	5	5
Context canvas: sensors	5	5
Context canvas: devices	10	10
Context canvas: constraints (devices)	5	5
Context canvas: interfaces	5	5
Context canvas: backend services	10	10
Context canvas: constraints (backend)	5	5
Writing	15	15
TOTAL	100	100

Personal Reflection

Although the solution proposed by Sneider seems a little bit unviable in a place like Colombia, where people will try to take advandage of the app and try not to pay anything, the correct implementation of the solution could eliminate waiting lines for supermarkets all together. 

It would be nice to include some key features in the solution like the ability to see the prices of the products I am going to buy beforehand, or make some kind of reservation for a piece of meat or cheese, so you don't have to wait until the butcher is ready.

Third Problem - Germán Andrade

Description/solution and rationale

German focused on the problem of the difficulty of finding a parking space for a popular place in the city. In the university, this problem has been trated year after year with no success at all, so for German to propose to solve this problem means that the solution is still there, but no one has been able to satisfy user needs for it. Germán proposes to solve this problem by establishing a system of car sharing where someone who won't use his car any time soon can lend his car to someone else instead of parking it. 

The rationale for this problem is very clear. Any of us would agree that there is a serious parking problem in our university. Some people do their best to get to the campus at 8am only to find out that they have to wait 1 hour to get a parking spot.

Calification

Task	Obtained score	Score value
Timing	5	5
Blog	5	5
Personas	5	5
Personas template	15	15
Context canvas: personas	10	10
Context canvas: environmental conditions	5	5
Context canvas: sensors	3	5
Context canvas: devices	5	10
Context canvas: constraints (devices)	5	5
Context canvas: interfaces	5	5
Context canvas: backend services	10	10
Context canvas: constraints (backend)	5	5
Writing	15	15
TOTAL	93	100

Personal Reflection

There are already many solutions for this kind of problem in many shopping malls and other public spaces. But German's idea really sounds like a good plan to solve the problem. The only thing that worries everyone that will hear about the idea is wether people will trust their car to a stranger or not, and whether they will trust them to return their car when they need them. 

Fourth Problem - Fabio Lopez

Description/solution and rationale

SuperCADE is a service portfolio where people can do their errands in a easier manner. Fabio identified a really big waiting time problem when doing a procedure in a SuperCADE, meaning that the main intention of the organization isn't fullfilling their clients needs in any way. This problematic is really important to solve because of the huge amount of people that go there, and because of the amount of people that leave the establishment unhappy. 

Fabio proposes a solution where a high percentage of the people that have to do something in SuperCADE can do it from their homes, without increasing the queue in the establishments for people that have really simple procedures.  

Calification

Task	Obtained score	Score value
Timing	5	5
Blog	5	5
Personas	5	5
Personas template	15	15
Context canvas: personas	10	10
Context canvas: environmental conditions	5	5
Context canvas: sensors	5	5
Context canvas: devices	10	10
Context canvas: constraints (devices)	5	5
Context canvas: interfaces	5	5
Context canvas: backend services	10	10
Context canvas: constraints (backend)	5	5
Writing	15	15
TOTAL	100	100

Personal Reflection

An information centralizer is always a good idea when coming up for a solution with an app. It is good that Fabio came to that solution so he could at lease decrease at some proportion the amount of people that go to the establishment for their services.