Project Idea

1. Who is your user group?
   People who are in need of social gathering during the pandemic time and want to have board games night online. Other stakeholders might be board game companies that want to   create an online version of their board game (or already have one) and want it to be known by a broad audience.

2. What is the exact problem?
   It is difficult to have an overview over the online board games and thus to choose a game

3. Where is your user group interacting with your software?
   At home with access to internet and a browser 

4. When is the user group interacting with your software?
   At any time in their free time, the interacting with software depends on the common online time of someone’s friend circle

5. Why do your users need this software?
   1. Pandemic time reduce the chance of meeting people physically
   2. psychological and mental need (lonely, lack so social contact, need to relax etc)
   3. time-consuming to search an online version of a social board game on google, currently there is no web app which helps people to communicate visually as well as play game together in the same application

6. How do you want to solve the problem?
   We want to solve this problem by creating a web application: 
   1. helps people virtually interacting with each other 
   2. provides an overview of different kinds of social games, helps with selection
   3. includes embedded version of the online board game in our web application so the users won’t have to switch between different websites for different games all the time  

Reflection

Our team worked together on this blog post (with video chatting), we learned how to initialize a project idea with basic consideration for stakeholders, problem solving format, etc. The initial formulation of the project idea was quite smooth,  the only point we need to consider is how we specify our use groups and if we have access to them for further process.