Water Matters at Bixby Park Farmers Market

This project addresses the severe drought in California which has caused communities to enact water restrictions. Long Beach has made specific efforts to conserve water which the community has responded to. However, Long Beach has fallen short of their target water conservation goal. Therefore, this design proposal aims to help... (Submitted to SXSW Eco Place by Design competition)

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The project is designed to start with taking place at Bixby Park Farmers Market in Long Beach.

As a group, we created the H2O word cloud to get our thoughts rolling on our project subject and where it needed to go.

After the word cloud, we settled on a specific problem that needed a solution for our project. Then we addressed why this subject is important and relevant to us and our community.

Here we analyzed the data to figure out how much water we used through agriculture in our daily lives. This helped us appreciate the impact a change in our practices could make.

We created a derive to absorb the environment we planned to place our solution at. This way we were able to assess how our solution would be used by our users.

We interviewed the farmers market visitors. We asked questions that would help us choreograph a solution that would cater to their needs as well as make a change in the California drought.

We created personas based on our interview results and used them to address different users of the solution.

Based on those personas we created journeys to map out a user’s day.

We designed a three-level solution to connect with users on different connection levels.

We did a comparison to show the effect a personal change in behaviors could make to overall water usage.

Finally, we addressed the potential of scalability and future progression of our project.

Project by: Team JYNKS is Joy Shibata,Yin Wong, Nadia Saleh, Kristal Serrano, and Susan Watts. The project was created in the Spring 2016 User Experience Design Studio, taught by Heather Barker, at CSULB and submitted to the SXSW Eco Place by Design competition.