Social Gifting

Little Jonny's Bike

Little Jonny's Bike is a web start-up that is focused on sharing the costs of gifts for children with friends and family. Crowdfunding is now a well-established function of the internet and continues to grow in popularity. People from around the world can come together to give money to a single idea, project or cause.

The goal was to create a platform for crowdfunding that gave users the opportunity to raise money with their friends and family in an easy-to-use way. Instead of someone receiving ten mediocre gifts they can get one gift they actually wanted from ten of their loved ones!

I started by carrying out initial requirement gathering exercises where I worked out the functionality of the application, its purpose and business requirements and what kind of data would be applied and gathered, who would use the application and in what way.

I made use of user epics, actors, goals and worked my way through user stories and scenarios and inputted these into JIRA where they became part of the agile system and the basis for JIRA design & development tasks.

Once the backbone of the functionality was established the project was wireframed with 'views' in mind where low and high fidelity designs would sit. These wireframes could be tested and were linked to JIRA issues for developers. Once some order was established to the system, high fidelity wireframe views were made from my creative design and the design guidelines document. Any change in scope and change of view would be quickly picked up by development, could be amended and reopened, so the way of working had great flexibility. The system facilitated what needed to be done and at what stage.

During testing any ongoing design issues or iterations were created as new QA 'issues' and tasked via JIRA, utilising Atlasssian Confluence as the basis for the designs. This was enhanced by a screen-grabbing application in Confluence and worked well with the raising of or reopening of development tasks and issues.