BRIDGE IT: Part 6— Testing

We are four girls all over Europe and our Bridge it! -team is helping volunteers to become better in their work. The aim of Bridge it! is to connect volunteers to each other and to provide valid information and education to them across countries. If you are planning to become a volunteer or if you are already volunteering just be a Bridge and join us here: (https://sticklkata.wixsite.com/bridgeit). Welcome to share our journey in Medium! ❤

After a very important step as prototyping and making a users’ map we started to build up step by step our web-site. We were mostly concentrated on the idea that this web-page should help people to become volunteers and also should show to random visitors that refugees/ immigrants are beside us and they need our help. So that’s why it must be done that way that it could be easy to navigate on it.

When it was done, we had to test it to see if it will work in real life and if it will be usefull for people around us. For greeks as well as for foreigners. So we needed to get some feedback about it to improve it. Because feedback is one of the most important steps on the way to a good project. For this we decided to talk with people whom we can divide on 3 groups: 1) Erasmus students; 2) Greek students- volunteers; 3) Young people in the street.

We interwied 18 people who already do volonteering or who want to become a such. They were nearly all agree on the fact that the idea itself is good. But we also get some critical comments about the project which is also good. The conversation with people had 3 steps: 1) Presenting the idea in general; 2) Showing the web-site and Instagram page; 3) 3 main questions. Here you can see some of the feedbacks that we got.

Panagiotis KONT 24 y.o.

Master’s degree student at Kapodistrian University

Vladimir KOSKIN 22 y.o.

Master’s degree Erasmus student at AUEB school in Athens

Out of the answers that we got, we concluded some interesting points. Which helped us to to make a step to the better project.

When we understood the good and the bad points of our project we needed to conclude out of this which improvements we have to do precisely. And this are those from which we started.

Our team: Saara Kyllönen, Kata Stickl , Ivana Cervena and Svetlana Lukyanova

Our story: part 1 , part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9