Thursday 26 July 2012

Response to the Feedback of My Assignment 01

Feedback: The way i describe my project is not entirely clear due to many sub focus of subject matter/issues that i brought into my project. 
Response: I've confirmed to build an e-commerce website with bidding feature that act as a platform for retired or unemployed Chinese woman to buy and/or sell upcyle product.

Feedback: Overall statement can be much improved by keeping the key feature/ key concept consistently throughout the project explanation.
Response: I divide users of my website into two groups - sellers and buyers.
Key features for the sellers are sellers can broadcast their product on air and upload images of their products while key features for the buyers are buyers can propose prices and bid for the product they like.

Feedback: Target audience section is very weakly presented.
Response: My target audience will be Chinese since China has the world's largest online population and China could surpass the U.S. as the largest e-commerce market by 2015 as reported by CNBeta read article here. Besides that, my target audience will be retired or unemployed female because female has higher online retail spending shares on apparel, accessories, jewelry and hobbies as reported by eMarketer.com and Internetretailer.com.

Feedback: There is clearly a lack of research in the technical needs of your proposed project.
Response: I've talked to two friends of mine who studied programing and are currently working about this project. They are free and ready to help and assist my project on my technical side.

Feedback: What is the aim of the project (website)?
Response: It aims to build an online community that bring people with similar interest (make upcycle product) together and also allow people to generate revenue.

Feedback: What is the focus of learning you want to achieve from this project
Response: I want to learn to build an e-commerce website with bidding feature.

Feedback: What is so special about the ‘buy and sell upcylce product’ in your website as compare to other similar website and what exactly and how exactly the upcycling DIY buying and selling works with e-bidding-auction?
Response: My website allows buyers to propose prices for the product they like. Then after a period of time, the buyers have to compete with other buyers to bid for the product they have been wanting to purchase. This not only allow seller to make some revenue, it also bring a sense of satisfactory to the seller. In fact, it makes seller wanted to contribute to the website more often.

Note: Provide a summary of each of the stages or phrases of my project.