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UpShop

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"Add value to your next purchase" "Make every purchase count"

Check out the app here: UpShop App

MVP

An app that allows the user to search for businesses that reflect their values as well as contribute to the upShop community by adding/editing businesses.

To run the app

The app has been built for smart phones. You can view the app by right clicking on the page and selecting 'Inspect'. Then toggle the device toolbar to a phone device.


Team members

Lucy | Lex | Caroline | Nat


User Journey

Searching for a place:

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Adding a place:

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Challenge/MVP

To build an app that allows the user to search for businesses that reflect their values as well as contribute to the upShop community by adding/editing businesses.


Users

As a user I want to...

  • Be able to search for places by category and location
  • Be able to identify what values the business adheres to
  • Navigate easily between different features on the app
  • Find out details about individual businesses
  • Be able to submit a business

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Approach

Design Sprint

Figma Design

Schema


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Build Sprint

Tech stack

  • Node
  • Express
  • Handlebars
  • PostgreSQL
  • Leaflet
  • Sass

We used milestones (ooooh) 🀩
The code is here 🧐

Outcome

Things we learnt:

  • How to use Leaflet, Sass and Travis CI
  • Passing data from hbs to front-end JS
  • Geolocation
  • Better, more specific error-handling (actually displaying a helpful page)
  • User testing was incredibly useful

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