About

Seal Team's mission was to investigate ways to introduce gamification concepts into a trading platform where users sell and purchase items from each other. Our customer, Sealdeal, wanted to brainstorm and try out gamification features for their platform, like a point system, user peer reviews and star ratings, analytics tools, and customization features.

To be able to develop and gather feedback on these ideas in a fast, agile way, we set out to develop a working web application with a streamlined deployment pipeline that automatically deployed the project to a cloud server when code changes were pushed to version control. With this setup in place, we'd be able to quickly move from an idea to a design, from a design to implementation in code, and from that code to a running demo application that the customer can try out as they wish. Sometimes in a matter of minutes, during the same meeting these ideas were first brought up.

Results

We achieved a working website that served as a proof of concept for a trading platform where we implemented and tested several gamification features, both from our own ideas and from the customer's, and iterated on feedback loops quickly and with most mundane tasks automated. We also gave Sealdeal consultation on their project and described how our ideas or solutions could be implemented. We also gave our opinion on what features would work best and which could be developed even further in the future.

Overall the customer seemed to appreciate and benefit from our advice and ideas, and are likely to integrate several of the features from our prototype into their final product.

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots of some of the implemented features