The first prototype idea: is to create a marketable brand system. The system will consist of material for handling the food that the local farmers and growers can utilize to identify their products and to create presence for what they do in a broader community range. Some of this branded items could be small vegetable containers that can be reutilized to grow plants this way perpetuating the idea of urban growing and sustainable practices.
The second prototype idea: Is to create an app that would allow the farmers and members of community gardens to keep a better track of their crops in useful ways. This will make their process more practical, efficient and easy to do. By making things easier they are also encouraged and enabled to integrate their product and culture into their community. This way making the idea of local farmers and urban growers more appealing for other people to adopt and include themselves into this practice. The App offers multiple options such as data sharing and input to keep track of the crops. As well as options to share the food in various ways such as gifts, selling and cooking them for activities in their communities. (aside from the general social media sharing.)
The third idea: A website which provides similar tools from the app. The website design takes it a step further in functionality and interactivity. By implementing the usage of a map the users can have an immediate idea of the locations where other people that they can interact with are located. In regard of interactivity, in the events page the circles will have varying sizes, these sizes have a relationship with the time of the event and a the visual metaphor of "growing" vegetables. The bigger the circles, the sooner time/date of the event. These interactive elements are meant to offer relevant information in a more immediate fashion, this way the user can have a clearer understanding of each element in each page.
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