Tuesday, April 22, 2014

BracketCity: Testing a Social Engagement Tool


I’m working with a friend of mine on a business idea. Our business is based on the idea that social media is simply a social engagement tool, or a method to increase or smooth human social-interactions. On that premise, we’re developing BracketCity. BracketCity is a simple method for people to share and complete brackets with their friends. But the brackets behind BracketCity are meant to go beyond what you typically see during March madness. Using the BracketCity app, you can create a bracket of anything you want to share with your friends. The idea is users can generate brackets which appeal uniquely to their friend-group, like which friend is most likely to be a millionaire or who’s the best looking girl at your school, etc.


For this project, I have built a prototype, which will be used for testing the marketability and usability of our bracket business. BracketCity relies heavily on creative user-generated content and our main focus with this prototype is testing out several brackets, which we are putting extra effort into.  Essentially, we’re testing whether or not great content will get higher response rates and attract more users. Additionally, this prototype will be used as a minimum viable product, we’ll ask for feedback from users on the format, layout and flow before programming a prototype online or in the IOS/Andriod environment.

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