## Scope of Work:

### Goal: Develop a responsive web/mobile MVP for Amber Initiative community platform (donations, grants, and projects to support)

The fund is water to the garden. The garden is the ecosystem of people and projects building alternative infrastructure for a regenerative and distributed digital e-commons.

Current Website:https://www.amberinitiative.com/ (Squarespace account)
Playful idea: http://amberinitiative.foundation/ (hosted on [github](https://github.com/amberinitiative/Website))

# Timeline (Jan. 16- March 16, 2020)

### 1. Research and Design (2 weeks )
Schedule 1 call a week with bi-weekly reviews.
* Week 1-2
* Project Brief, Kick-Off, try to collab with branding and ux designers
* Understand goals for community of donors, an projects
* Develop easy and basic UX for finding and funding projects (netflix scroll? and setting up account-- and giving funds-- is there a social aspect? how can we embed ideas are self-organization and accountability)
* Some of the challenges of giving is lack of time and knowledge and trust.. how can we build trust in the community? Visibility? Take the safety of sidewalks idea from [Jane Jacobs](http://www.wikisummaries.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities)
### Materials
* #### Branding (Ivan Cruz, Mediatecture Professor Art Center)
* [Brand Guide](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k221YL5cj-0H498X38DQc5qdM_8QbQtfZxbcR5ef6uo/edit?ts=5da13b6a#slide=id.p)
* [Moodboards](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12phoz3g_98tCF7ey71imRW4X1o9IH02mY5lq92O-d3g/edit?ts=5da1f9eb&pli=1#slide=id.p)
* #### UX (Justine Sun DeLaCruz, Designer IDEO.org)
* [Figma workspace](https://www.figma.com/file/z29rAr9cXqBAMFAQPBBbyD/Amber-Initiative?node-id=0%3A1) (sitemap and wireframes)

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### 2. Build and Prototype (6 weeks)
* Week 3-4 (1 review, week 4)
* Week 5-6 (1 review, week 6)
* Week 7-8 (last review week 7, touch up week 8)

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