May 2019
Summary of Activities
- Website development continues for the initial release
- Learning commons
- Planned the UX strategy for the Learning Commons
- Conducted a horizon scan of other learning platforms for the Learning Commons
- Co-design
- Continued planning co-design sessions with partners, and developing specific activities to do for the embedded co-design efforts
April 2019
Summary of Activities
- CMS selection
- Refinement of website designs
- Completed the UX and UI of the pages
- Start of website implementation based on initial scope
- Connecting with project partners about co-design process
- Submitted Research Ethics Board proposal for approval
- Developing co-design activities
- Initial collaborative meetings with project partners
March 2019
Summary of Activities
- Website work
- Created visual design for the pages across the website
- Created style guide for website UI system
- working on Research Ethics Board proposal for co-design with partner
February 2019
Summary of Activities
- Start of embedded co-design with partner co-ops
- Website work:
- Refinement and iteration of wireframes and information architecture
- Created copy deck to collaborate on content across the team
- Communicated and met with logo designer to align on visual design efforts
- Start on the visual design system
January 2019
Summary of Activities
- Prototype of Platform Coop site
- Focused on:
- Building the information architecture of the website
- Prioritized features and pages based on content feasibility and website survey done with the community
- Created wireframes for mobile and desktop viewports
December 2018
Summary of Activities
- Design of Beauty Services website
- Design of Platform Coop site
- Exploration of Netlify CMS resulted in decision to use WordPress for the site development
November 2018
- Two day co-design event centred around the creation of a scheduling tool and labour platform, with beauty workers intending to form a new co-operative
- Two day co-design event with women currently part of the SEWA Federation centred around the creation of a governance tool and learning commons
- Design of the new Platform Coop website
- Research into technical components that can be used for the Kit
October 2018
- Completed Project Deliverables graphic based on feedback
- Gathering contacts and feedback for platform.coop site co-design
- Developing survey questions for platform.coop site co-design
- Working on a detailed roadmap for the project
- Initial mapping of co-operative tool features based on the needs of the partner co-ops
- Exploration of Netlify CMS for new project website
September 2018
- Initial design sketches of Project Deliverables graphic:
- Michelle and Dana met with Tais from Cataki to communicate the current Toolkit plans and status
- Co-op Requirement Mapping
- Decisions on where to focus the project energy
- Logistics Platform
- Distributed Governance Tools
August 2018
- First of regular series of checkin meetings
- Established mailing list as best internal communication method, combined with wiki for open information sharing
- Discussed re-design of existing site (platform.coop) as next step, with a soft launch (re-worked navigation and new look) on October 15
- Michelle and Dana met with Namya from SEWA to plan upcoming on-site co-design meetings
- on-going conversation to share co-design ideas and plan best approach
- SEWA needs a basic site to share information - need a simple and cheap hosting solution
- The full team met with Mundano from Cataki, Brazil to discuss design and development requirements for the Catadores (recycling collectors)
- Gathering partner co-ops needs/requirements, mapping these out to identify commonalities (and differences)
- Continuing research on existing co-ops and platforms
- First mockup sketches of platform.coop re-design
July 2018
- Launch Meeting
- Meeting with SEIU-HCII and the ICA about the CoRise Cooperative
- Discussions with CoLab, Loconomics, and Sharetribe to discuss potential collaboration/use of platforms
- Research into existing platform cooperatives
- Setup Project Infrastructure
- Initial user experience mapping—starting a coop
- Initial technical mapping of the labour platform's components
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