Communicating what is the current state of a open project and what are the next steps to be taken has been done until now, purely by the exchange of emails between the collaborators of the platform. To an extend this works fine, but something was still missing: A simple way to easily communicate to anyone who visit the project’s page, which phase the project is currently on, and which are the missing links in order to move the project to the next step.

Now each Letsevo project’s page received a “Project Status” page, featuring information about the current state of development. The Idea is that people can leave comments on the “project Status Page” so that everyone can be part of the conversation.

A Status Scale was created by myself to visually communicate the Stage of development. This Project Status Scale uses the 5 phase design process* vocabulary coined by the famous Design Firm Ideo, described by the author Jeremy Myerson in the Book Ideo:Master of Innovations.

Ideo’s 5 step Design Methodology is:

1. Understand
2. Observe
3. Visualize
4. Evaluate and Refine
5. Implement

During the progress of this platform, we will optimize this “Project Status Scale” modifying it’s 5 phases to the needs of our projects, but for now Ideo’s 5 phase design methodology seems like a good starting point.

To see directly which is the status of each currently open project you can now refer to their respectively Status page:

e.Moped Project Status
ECOSK8 Project Status

*The 5 Phase Design Process of Ideo is also described in this Website