Key takeaways of the week

Key Updates

Security | Sunrise

10/3/2023

👟 Kicked off internally and further refined the sprint plan

📅 Booked in key sessions and meetings with project sponsors in week 4 and week 6

🔎 Aligned on our approach for user testing

🙍🏻Started the process for recruiting our qual and quant testing participants

✍🏽 Started building out the materials for our community user testing

📊 Built out an assumptions backlog to track and validate against throughout

📈 Begun to validate key value levers and drivers in order to begin building out the value case

Key Learnings

7 Roadblocks to Renewable Energy and How to Win Over Hearts

10/3/2023

7 Roadblocks to Renewable Energy and How to Win Over Hearts

🌱 7 reasons folks might say "nope" to renewable energy projects:

💸 01 Land value drama
🌳 02 Enviro worries
😷 03 Health scares
🗣️ 04 "Hey, let us in!" (public participation)
🌐 05 Tribal tiffs
💰 06 Money matters
🏛️ 07 Government goofs_{Source: Energy Policy}

🇨🇴 In Colombia, community acceptance probs have stalled projects for up to 3 years! 😮
‍_{Source: IEA 🤝}

To get people on board, try:
🖼️ Cool digital visuals
🚶🏻Field trips to the site
🤗 And remember, sharing is caring! (listen to concerns)
‍_{Source: CSE}

Upcoming Sessions

We will also set up stations across the offices to showcase trends, demos, case studies and new immersive technologies

Content Strategy Alignment

06/10/2023
‍(15:00-15:30PM BST)
(10:00-10.30AM EST)

We will review WIP work to refine it together, get input and answers any questions or clarifications from the team.

We will also set up stations across the offices to showcase trends, demos, case studies and new immersive technologies

Sprint Review Meeting

11/10/2023
(15:00-16:00PM BST)

We will review our sprint goal and outputs from the three pods, Engineering, Design and Content & Strategy.

We will also set up stations across the offices to showcase trends, demos, case studies and new immersive technologies

Relevant links

Digital Roadmap Final Deliverable

Qual Board

Qual Playback Deck

Qual interviews recordings and Transcripts

Validation Phase Deliverable

Requirements Document

Prototype Walkthrough Video

Value Case Working File

We will also set up stations across the offices to showcase trends, demos, case studies and new immersive technologies

Tech Discovery Memo

Quant Survey Questions

We will also set up stations across the offices to showcase trends, demos, case studies and new immersive technologies

Testing Pod

What we did last sprint

1. We've run stakeholder interviews with 10 individuals across various teams, gathering their thoughts, feedback and insights on the MVP tool

2. We’ve collated, analysed and turned testing insights into tickets which have been shared with, and assigned to the team

3. We've kicked off the recruitment and craft of comms for our next product release, extending out to a wider group of users

4. We've created the training materials for the team to test the product in the real world at events, once the time is right

What we're doing this sprint

1. We will be setting up for Alpha testing, including driving recruitment and creating materials

2. We will continue our interviews with various members of the team to further explore the tool and how we can work to improve it

3. We will run training with team members who will have ownership over the backend CMS, ensuring they feel comfortable and confident on the platform

4. We will continue to collate the testing into a format that can be shared amongst the team

Design Pod

What we did last sprint

1. Iterative Design Builds - We worked through the most urgent design builds brought up via testing such as: forms and footer updates, improved design of sticky nav component and optimisation of the individual Impact section
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2. Individual impact section - Improved UX and screen designs for different edge cases

3. Improved navigation buttons - Improved UI and UX on the update noticeboard and the events calendar, making it easier for users to scroll through content.

4. Aligned button styling throughout tool

5. Accessibility compliance - Initial thinking and planning around what we are able to implement vs what a user controls from their own device. And discovery into what we are currently doing vs what we have yet to address.

What we're doing this sprint

1. Timeline - Updates to UI to improve the isometric illustrations and the hotspot boxes and buttons.

2. Timeline - Mobile optimisation

3. Submission forms - Mobile optimisation

4. User Polls - Improved UX/UI

5. Community Complaint Input Form

6. Continuation of accessibility compliance thinking

Tech Pod

What we did last sprint

1. Initial implementation of sections for mobile devices

2. Progressing with Stage Gate E activities for approval

3. Completion of Update noticeboard and the ‘Register your interest’ functionality

4. Addressed issue with how text is styled for Windows users

5. Generated ‘non-project’ pages - shared content including ‘Privacy policy’ and ‘Terms of service’

6. Population of UAT with draft content

What we're doing this sprint

1. Addressing issues identified as part of internal QA process

2. Continuing activities to support Stage Gate E

3. Reviewing any outcomes from security penetration testing

4. Delivering training material around analytics

5. Population of production with refined content

Content Strat Pod

What we did last sprint

1. Developed commercialisation proposition

2. Continued discussions with legal around licence agreement & terms of service (now drafted), as well as privacy policy and cookie policy (in progress)

3. Built out content direction for new alpha features, particularly cookie policy & user polls

What we're doing this sprint

1. Analysis of testing results to identify priority feature optimisations

2. Continue alpha & further feature definition build out

3. Conduct QA testing for Alpha build

4.Launch strategy working session prep

Brand Pod

What we did last sprint

1. Synthesised our vision, values, and personality based on a core team working session, and crafted

2. Brand strategy routes to bring them to life. Builtout a comprehensive long list of names

3. Conducted diligence searches against front-running names to ensure lack of competition, international relevance, and viability

4.Continued to refine visual identity and brand routes, exploring 9+ different stylistic directions (incl. colours, typography, visual motifs, and logotypes)

What we're doing this sprint

1. Naming - Following Friday’s working session, we’ve submitted 5 names (Doorstep, Seesaw, Taylor, Assembly, Herd) into an initial quick knock-out check, which should flag any immediate no-go's, before we progress with a more thorough local/global search

2.Visual Identity Routes -We’re continuing to build out a small number (3 - 4) potential routes for visual identity — colours, typography, visual motifs, logotype etc...

3.Testing - We’re planning to run some light-touch quantitative testing this week, to refine and validate our brand routes.

4. We’ll be digging into how distinctive, memorable, trustworthy each of the routes are, and which best-resonate with our target audiences

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NGV IV Workshop Pre-Read

Once again, we can’t tell you how excited we are to spend Thursday and Friday morning (and afternoon for the UK-based folks!) with you to workshop the Immersive Visualisation product.

We mentioned last week we would send a pre-read, which we have sent over in an email but is also linked below! Inside you’ll find:

⭐️ What to expect (objectives/agenda)
⭐️ Questions to consider in advance
⭐️ A summary of our qualitative testing learnings
⭐️ Hot off the press key quantitative testing results
⭐️ Value case / measurement work to date
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You may have seen some of this before - so we can make the best use of our time together, please do take a moment to digest the content if you haven’t yet done so and we’re happy to address any questions that come up in advance!

Our final ask is to please complete your individual profile here in advance.

NGV IV Workshop Pre-Read