Prototyping 4 - Building the back-end.
Service Blueprint V02
Building the back end
Plugging into already existing platforms such as SMS and FB Messenger as an inital entryway into the service. Once on-boarding is complete, match up and by using node.js running on a node server (digital ocean), and socket.io to build the chat interface.
I started by focusing on the backstage of the service allowing me to start to build how the conversational interface will work. Breaking it up into sections, I started by first understanding node.js and the requirements around this. Using DigitalOcean to get a node server was the first step and understanding the relationship between socket.io and node.js.
Testing the websocket as a conversational interface.
I set out to have a working initial prototype, by building a basic conversational interface with user feedback on both ends. This will eventually allow me to redirect the mothers who have signed up to the service into a personalized matched up conversation that facilitates the dialog between these two women.
Testing:
- New on-boarding process re-iterated from the key learnings from the first prototype.
- Creating a fully functioning matching up system, that leads the unique conversations to their own conversational interface.
- Creating a back-end database run on PHP, pulled directly from SMS/FB Messenger via textit.
- Scrapping the text from each unique id to match-up to the best possible user.
- Retaining the message history for each participant upon every new message
To find out more:
- Initial Research Methods
- Design Challenge
- Initial In-Depth Interviews: Data Matching
- Experience Prototyping: Wrappers and Value Proposition
- User Testing: Content and Conversational Style
- Building the back-end.
- Validated Concept
- Final Product: www.ourpillar.com