An improved version of MarketPlace, (marketplace.uchicago.edu), and online site where students can exchange and sell anything one uses in college from textbooks, books, furniture, to apartment leases.
The present system is rather inefficient in the sense that old posts are not immediately taken down once the item has been sold.
In addition, there is no formal way of categorizing or listing the listings in an even more coherent and efficient manner.
Furthermore, sellers often clump or bundle together all items that they want to sell under generic listings, thus, and in effect, eliminating the possible and potential buyers to view the particular listing for a particular good.
This will first and foremost require software and IT skills to build a program that builds upon and improves the objectives of marketplace.uchicago.edu
Product development:
1. Build a template page for use.
2. Test the user-friendliness, reliability, and efficiency of the web design among a selected sample of 300+ students.
3. Or, if
Saturday, October 4, 2008
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