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IAT235 FINAL RESEARCH#2

Extra info design web:

https://podio.com/site/creative-routines

https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/athenahealth/

Inspirational design web:

http://futureofcarsharing.com/

http://www.visioncritical.com/evolution-of-insight/

Video demo: 

https://youtu.be/Ib7alKNIgl4

https://youtu.be/j2wClGeed9A

Inspiration and Experimenting:

Looking through multiple different infographics online, we came across a few we like and believe it a good concept for our topic. Our team wanted the theme of the website to emulate the motion of a bike moving through our design.

Problem#1

Our initial plan was to create an animation that would move the bike around to the different subheadings. After looking into the coding and possible worked needed to animate a bike, it did not seem possible with our level of coding and the time restraint.

Potential Solutions#1

- After the smartwatch exercise, we thought we can use an image carousel to fake the moving bike. We would keep the bike stationed in one area while the background moves. The downside of this it would a fixed image and if it were viewed in smaller screens it may not look the same

- If we create each element of the background separately, we may be able to resize them in different window sizes.

- Another possibility is to station the bike and Beijing’s skyline silhouette background and when selecting the different topics, the information will pop up. The downside would be unable to change the background silhouette as the topic changes.

Problem#2

How do we make the website responsive? Our main idea is to have the website fit a standard desktop window view but not anything small like a tablet or smartphone. We imagined information to pop up onto the background.

Potential Solutions#2

- We can maintain the drawing we want to show to the audience up at the top white information can be found underneath through scrolling down.

- The website must be used in the horizontal form on devices smaller than the desktop.

- We can remove the silhouette background, change the timeline from the horizontal to a vertical orientation. This way our website will change to a vertical scrolling timeline whereas the desktop version moves horizontally.

Timeline

2014 The company was founded in 2014 by five members of the Peking University cycling club as a project that initially focused on bicycle tourism before deciding on bicycle sharing. It was named "Ofo" due to the word's resemblance to a cyclist on a bicycle.

2015 June Beijing Mobike Technology Co., Ltd. was established in Beijing.

2015 June  Ofo was launched in June 2015 in Beijing, gaining 20,000 users and 2,000 bicycles by October with investment funding from a Peking University alumnus.

2016 November, a number of shared bicycles have been born and have received a large amount of venture capital.

2016  the number of cars used in the peak period of shared bicycles in Beijing was 2.35 million, and 15 companies settled in the shared bicycle market in Beijing.

In 2017, Ofo is exposed to that easy to store money but hard to refund. Ofo is suited by many suppliers and transportation companies because of the overdue obligations.

On September 7th, 2017. Beijing government announced a policy to control the total amount of sharing bikes, stop putting new bikes into the market. The total amount is controlled at 1,910,000, which decreased 2% compared to the previous year which was 2,350,000.

In November 2018, a lot of users found that it was difficult to get the refund. On top of that, there was no answer in the customer service representative. Up to Dec. 18th, millions of people were waiting for the refund.

On April 5th, 2018, Beijing started to clean abandoned and broken bikes. The government totally found and rearranged 365,000 bikes from the city river, canal and remote areas.

2018.04 a rumor in early April finally became a reality. Mobike was captured by the Meituan group, and the Mobike’s management team immediately adjusted their way because the original operation method is difficult to sustain bike-sharing markets.

On August 2, 2018, Beijing held a symposium on shared bicycle management. At the meeting, the relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission said that since September last year, the total number of shared bicycles in Beijing has dropped from 2.35 million to 1.91 million. At the end of this year, Beijing's shared bicycle running vehicle real-time monitoring platform will be put into use. At that time, problems such as unscheduled delivery, docking, and difficult vehicle scheduling will be alleviated.

On September 28, 2018, the public broke the news to the media that there was a large number of shared bicycles in the Tonghui River near Sihui Bridge to Shuangqiao in Chaoyang District, Beijing. This river has become a "cemetery" for sharing bicycles. The salvaged Mobai staff said there may be thousands of shared bicycles in the river.

2018.12.19 The ofo company and its founder Dai Wei, received a number of restrictions on consumer orders issued by the court, which also means that Dai Wei has been included in the blacklist of untrustworthy enforcers.

2019.1.1 ofo’s Bank account has been frozen.

References

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268/

http://time.com/5218323/china-bicycles-sharing-economy/

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/you-won-t-last-3-days-they-told-ofo-co-founder-now-a-9070884

https://alltechasia.com/5-bike-sharing-startups-went-bankrupt-2017/

Because we are talking about bike sharing in Beijing so we also did some research, from Chinese websites. We will use the data from these websites and make them into charts.

http://report.idx365.com/%E8%89%BE%E7%91%9E/2017%E5%B9%B4%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%85%B1%E4%BA%AB%E5%8D%95%E8%BD%A6%E8%A1%8C%E4%B8%9A%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E6%8A%A5%E5%91%8A.pdf

https://www.udparty.com/php/upload/20171229/1514550531f77182f1ed9acaf9.pdf

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Topic: Why bike-sharing fails in Beijing?

Introduction:

Overview: In recent years, it has been evident that bike sharing has been expanding throughout, especially cities as a popular form of transportation. China a country with highly dense population is the best place introduce bike sharing. However, the approach to bike sharing in China was not done efficiently. The purpose of this site is sharing information about why bike-sharing companies failed in Beijing. As a result, these bikes have become a pile of trash left around cities.

Possible solutions:

- Have designated bike parking area to avoid bikes randomly parked around the cities and left behind.

- Reduce the number of bikes out in public to avoid the overwhelming supply of bikes again

- The Bike-Share Oversupply in China: Huge Piles of Abandoned and Broken Bicycles

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268/

- China’s bike-sharing bubble bursts as Bluegogo fails

https://www.ft.com/content/cc1107e8-cb5f-11e7-ab18-7a9fb7d6163e

Economic

- https://www.businessinsider.com/china-bike-sharing-frenzy-collapsing-2017-11

- As Bike-Sharing Brings Out Bad Manners, China Asks, What’s Wrong With Us?

- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html