The first step in the creation of our application was to create mind maps around our theme: "Reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse".

We each created mind maps and reviewed them together: this is the final mindmap of our project:

You will find the link to our mindmap here.

This mindmap is the starting point of our project. It explores all the elements we thought about, that we talked about. It will allow you to retrace our thinking, and to understand its meaning. But above all, this mindmap allowed us to expose the problems, to find the solutions and thus to take stock of the problems without answers.

We have therefore thought about our subject : programmed obsolescence.

We have turned this subject upside down to understand all the issues, problems and unexplored solutions.

This site is therefore a representation of our brainstorming, which we presented in a glitch project (linked below).

It will allow you to better understand our application, the reflection during its creation, its identity and our main objectives.

Here is a video if you want to know more about programmed obsolescence, the scourge of the consumer society.

We then made a wireframe of our project. This allowed us to visualise what we wanted the application to look like. We were able to improve it, trying to maximise the customer experience for the first time.

As an indication, a wireframe is a diagram used when designing a website. It is a black and white model, composed of shapes and lines, to visualise the application to be created. Its purpose is to visualise the size of the elements, their place, etc.

The next step in the development of our project was to create mock-ups from the wireframe we had defined. These mock-ups allowed us to demonstrate our concept, create an identity to easily get end-users feedbacks on the mock-ups we created. The mockups are a representation of what we would like our final project to look like.

We started from a basic, simplified version with only the main features of our concept. We have therefore submitted this version to potential users, with the aim of having comments and suggestions for improvement of this first version.

We have therefore taken into account user feedbacks and improved the mockup to meet the expectations of our potential users. These mockups therefore provide you with an explanation of what we expect our application to look like, how we want it organised and designed.

We carried out several phases of testing in order to understand the expectations of our users and to detach ourselves from our status as creators of the application. Indeed, as creators, it is more difficult for us to realize the situation and the usefulness or not of the different features of our application.

Therefore, these user tests were very interesting and useful for us.

We then proceeded to a first test phase: we had our application tested by target users of our app, they gave us feedbacks and suggestions for improvement. We applied these feedbacks and created a second version of the app.

This second version was also subject to a series of tests. Once again, users gave us their remarks and suggestions for improvement which again allowed us to improve the application.

We would like to put a scan in our app that would allow users to scan items in a shop to have direct access to data on its lifetime.
Also, we would like to have a microphone in our app that can recognise when the user says on the microphone the different characteristics of the product for which we want to obtain information and find a repairer. This will allow users to save time in their search.

We would like to have a larger address book of repairers on our app. To do this, we want to launch a major canvassing campaign.
We also want to obtain more financial resources to develop our app through competitions organised to promote CSR innovations or by including targeted advertising on the app.

In order to develop our app, we would like to create a communication campaign.
First of all, we want to create an Instagram page with an explanation of our project, a link to our website and a link to directly download the application.
We also want to participate in trade fairs to make our application known.
Then, we wanted to create partnerships with other companies to promote our application.
We would also like to obtain a Mission Company status (Pacte Law) to accentuate our CSR policy. We want our application to be really taken as a model and our CSR approach as well.