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ZIMBOWTIES

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A social enterprise based in Zimbabwe. We chose to go direct-to-consumers and after struggling with the limitations of Etsy I decided to build us a website.
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Project Background

In 2016 I co-founded Zimbowties, a social startup creating handmade bow ties and fashion accessories from upcycled offcuts of colourful fabric in Zimbabwe. 10% of our sales goes towards Creativity Awards for school kids to inspire the next generation of creatives in Zimbabwe.

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We started selling direct to customers via Etsy but when we found its basic design quite limiting for meeting our customer's needs and our business goals I decided to build our own webpage.

Research

Customer Discovery Interviews 
Customer Discovery Via Social Media 
Root Cause Analysis
Kim White - Root Cause Analysis - Week 1
Persona Development
Kim - Persona Canvas - Tatenda the Zimbo
Stakeholder Meetings & Business Goal Setting
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Value Proposition
Kim White, Week 3, value-prop-canvas, Ja

Problem Definition

Existing Solution Evaluation 
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Ideation

Rapid Prototyping
Kim White, Rapid Prototyping Test Run _P
Mockups
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Refinement and Testing
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Net Promoter Score Measurement 
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User Feedback Via Social Media
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Implementation

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