Charlotte Cooper, Ellie Ward, Francesca Battista, Nicole Garsin & Sarah Stothard
Team Manifesto
People aged 18 – 24 are the biggest perpetrators for over charging batteries and increasing household electricity bills by £60 a year.
Switching to an energy saving bulb will save you around ÂŁ120 over its lifetime.
Who
needs to monitor their electricity bills?
2ND YEAR STUDENTS
IN HALLS LAST YEAR BILLS NOT INCLUDED
DEPENDANT ON PARENTS
Typical Consumer profile
Secretly monitored -Hannah’s bedroom electricity use & wastage
Hannah: aged 20 Second year of University Lives in a house of eight -Nottingham Bills not included
Why should they use our app?
What do our target audience want to spend their money on?
How do they want the app to work? Multiple choice words and images were also favoured.
From a small survey carried out, 16 out of 28 people decided that Facebook was their preferred social network site.
When do they want to use the app? Questionnaire results‌ Just after morning alarm 7pm 9pm 10pm
Results showed that consumers would rather be notified about their progress weekly.
The UniVolt App
SET UP: Page 1
Profile image here
EXAMPLE QUESTION PAGE:
With interactive
multiple choice’s
15 minutes after alarm in the morning
“What
is plugged in and turned on in
your bedroom?” 7 o’clock in the evening
“What
kitchen appliances have you used
since you got in from uni?” 9 o’clock in the evening
“What
appliance has been left plugged in
for the longest today?” 10 o’clock in the evening
“Are you Yes/NO
going out tonight?
”
What appliances are using? – relevant to the activity
Team Learning Outcomes
We learnt to become more familiar with illustrator when creaDng the app
Played to our strengths and split work up; from that constant communica+on was key
Kept our meeDngs sociable and light hearted: A Facebook page was created as an easy contact portal