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Crowdfunding Skycircles

Skycircl.es is a project of John Wiseman, a furloughed Disney Imagineer who became obsessed with mysterious overhead aircraft and decided to monitor them, discovering (among other things) a massive, covert FBI aerial surveillance program.

The project uses a cheap software-defined radio and a low-cost antenna to intercept transponder signals from overhead aircraft and plot their movements on maps in realtime, also storing longitudinal flight data.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sowJrQQfgxnLCErb-CvUV8VGXdtca6SWYWWLRPZgaHI/edit#slide=id.ga3a076b34_0_12

But the other half of the project is using open sources  and freedom of information requests to pierce the veils of secrecy surrounding the front companies that many of these aircraft are registered to.

The program has revealed just how busy our skies are with invisible, unregarded surveillance aircraft. This image is not a lengthy time-lapse: it is a snapshot of a single moment in the LA skies.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sowJrQQfgxnLCErb-CvUV8VGXdtca6SWYWWLRPZgaHI/edit#slide=id.g5086fd3e26_0_79

Wiseman has collected BILLIONS of transponder pings from surveillance aircraft. New ones are tweeted in realtime by Advisory Circular, a network of Twitter bots that report on the skies over many major cities.

https://twitter.com/i/lists/1263724487435890688

The project is all free/open source, and Wiseman has run it for years as a self-funded hobby. But since being furloughed, this has become harder to sustain. Now one of his laptops has died and he doesn't have the cash to replace it.

He's soliciting donations to keep the project going. He's also in search of other coders to contribute, and free hosting for some of the project.

https://skycircl.es/donate-nerd-mode/

If he gets enough money, he's planned to give every spy aircraft in America its own social media account that tracks its movements in realtime; a mobile app that tells you which aircraft are overhead right now, and planet-scale analysis of spy planes.

Our own household finances are under severe strain, but I just donated to him. He's an example of how tech can serve as a force-multiplier for people resisting authoritarianism and illegitimate exercises of power.

A self-funded hobbyist is fighting the entire surveillance-industrial complex...and winning!

[42monos]

GameDev Diary #04: Replicating GameBoy Palettes and more.

Remember how you played Pokemon Red and Blue in the Gameboy Color and  it switched from the default palette to a creepy one on Lavender Town? Well let’s do that.

If you have been following this GameDev diary, you probably noticed how I used a totally grayscale palette for the sprites, this might have been seen as a lazy approach (an you would be right), but I decided to be smart instead of locking myself in a replica of the greens from the original gameboy.

One of the main reasons was that I wanted to convey the passing of time as you advanced in the game, so a little spoiler of the story: Tomas arrives to his home town early morning and find it completely empty, he founds the mayor in the main plaza being attacked by some pirates. After liberating him, you learn that the whole town has been kidnaped and the pirates are moving all the 42 residents to their pirate island, including your family. So you naturally go in pursue of them in 6 different scenarios. Each of them with it’s own palette that reflects both the biome and the time of the day. So how do we go from this?:

To this:

The answer is ColorRamps/GradientMaps: First a little bit of color theory about gameboy palettes, this guy explains Hue Shifting and Luminance both essential to make a palette makes sense and still can pop up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdXpUIATzO0

Ok, I have selected a palette, How do I implement it on my game?, well to implement it to a sprite, just follow this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7VljTl4I3w The only problem is that the tutorial implements it on a single sprite, it doesn’t do full screen shading. For that you will need to change the shader code to:

shader_type canvas_item; render_mode unshaded; uniform sampler2D gradient: hint_black; void fragment(){    // Grabs the texture from the screen behind, not from the sprite    vec4 input_color = texture(SCREEN_TEXTURE, SCREEN_UV);       float grayscale_value = dot(input_color.rgb, vec3(0.299,0.587,0.114));    vec3 sampled_color = texture(gradient, vec2(grayscale_value, 0.0)).rgb;    // I don't do mixing because i want the exact palette to be used    COLOR.rgb = sampled_color;    COLOR.a = input_color.a; }

And apply the shader to a ColorRect that is above the whole screen (if you need help ping me at twitter: @Levhita)

Now I have several Gradient Maps that allows me to change palettes: Really Really Late at Night

Snow mountain at Noon

Afternoon at the Desert

I have no idea...

Classic GameBoy Look and probably in a forest.

And of course, Lavender Town

I found it better to edit the gradients directly on Godot as I can have realtime feedback, instead of following the Krita > Godot path as in the tutorial.

Sadly I overwritten several times the shared resources so I keep my references in a resource folder and constantly copy/paste and make sure to click make unique. I also prefer to save the Material resource as .tres because it’s a plain-text format that can be easily inspected on source versioning software and easily shared... speaking of which, you can get all my gradients from here!!!, what a wonderful thing Git is. https://github.com/levhita/42monos/tree/main/World/Gradient

[pico-8-update]

Dank Tomb

This game has to be one of the most polished and impressive creations in the history of PICO-8.

Jakub Wasilewski (AKA krajzeg) developed an engine of sorts for the lighting effects in the game, that was documented in real time in social media, as progress was made. It was very insightful to watch at the time.

Since the developer put the game in a pay-what-you-want model through itch.io, we will not embed it here, but let you choose to name your price if you want to play it and support him. Note that the full download has additional goodies like a map, journal, etc.

If the incredible lighting effects weren’t enough, the handling of the pico-8 palette will convince you this is on another level. But it’s not all looks: The game has some very interesting puzzles, and a save game feature reminiscent of older console game methods.

For all of this, Dank Tomb gained a spot in the PICO-8 Hall of Fame. Be sure to check out the rest of Jakub’s carts and games, for there is something to learn and admire in them as well!

If you are interested in the history of this game’s evolution, it is all well documented in krajzeg’s twitter timeline, starting in Jan 2017.

Jakub also wrote a very insightful article over at hackernoon.com split into 4 parts, about the realtime lighting effects and other game design considerations for Dank Tomb, which we cannot recommend enough.

Dank Tomb @ itch.io | @krajzeg | original bbs thread

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Company-specific Websites

A corporate website could be a tremendously valuable resource for your job search in many ways. You'll have the ability to conduct traditional research to assist you to discover more about the business when finding your way through the interview.

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[farlane]

The Name of the Plow

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[allmichigan]

The Name of the Plow

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[mirceakitsune]

About what went on in the Darkplaces engine community, how this affects VoreTournament

Found some energy lying around to talk about this one here: The whole thing was a big drain on me in the moment, to the point where I had issues sleeping the night it took place. As it's related to a landmark project many people follow me for, it's fair I post about it here as well... by which I mean Vore Tournament which through Xonotic uses the Darkplaces engine to run. Later this month I was planning to announce on Patreon a change to the lighting system I planned to develop for Xonotic and in consequence my Vore Tournament game. It's something I've been hoping to do for a while now: The game presently uses boring old pre-compiled lightmaps for world lighting, no shadows and other fancy effects. My goal was to change this using a trick I had come up with, essentially implementing emission maps from glow textures using the existing point light system, no need to dive into technical details here. This required a change to Darkplaces engine to do properly: Inspired by videos on realtime raytracing I recently saw, I visited its development Discord server and brought up my idea, after which I started testing some existing features with other DP members and developers. So what happened. To keep it short and mention the same thing I said to the Xonotic crew: In the middle of a test I was conducting in-game, I was banned out of the blue from the entire Darkplaces community in a matter of seconds, by one of the developers with whom 5 minutes prior I was just talking to about my code. The reason? Something I said on a social media platform years ago offended them, that's pretty much it. After 15 years of being in that community (if you count their Freenode IRC room), I'm banned out of the blue purely out of cancel culture over opinions I had, which I never brought up or imagined bringing up in that community to whom I was always professional. I was given no prior warning, no way to get back to the team afterward, not even told exactly what it was they saw, asked why I said whatever I might have given I even remember every past argument, not even asked if it's accurate or could have been some fakery from a 4chan / Kiwifarms type website looking to troll people. As far as the others are aware to this day, I simply disappeared in the middle of working with them for unknown reasons... other people there to whom I spoke privately the next day expressed the same confusion as myself. I'm not going to make further comments on what I think of this insanity, I believe it's pretty obvious: We live in fucking glorious times, that is all. Also not gonna dive into what they freaked out about as I do NOT want more drama nor new issues on top of what already happened, especially with places like Patreon or Furaffinity losing their administrative minds and becoming as savage and intolerant. I don't even see why it should be relevant, even if I supported murder (which I DON'T) pulling this sort of stuff on people out of nowhere is more than uncalled for. It is however official that if you ever had an opinion people don't like on a sensitive subject at any point in your life, you can now expect cancer culture to follow you everywhere you go and get you banned out of the blue by those you thought are your colleagues. Now including FOSS projects... a warning to other developers here to be careful, for your team may ban you from working on your own code if someone doesn't like what you said on Facebook or Twitter last decade, this is where we are guys it's 2021. Luckily this was just the engine team: I spoke about it with the Xonotic community and folks are a lot more cool there, no issues with them and they have my love. Theoretically this shouldn't hamper me too much in working on Vore Tournament, just that if I need any engine changes for it I'm out of luck as I can't even reach their developers any more. On top of that I'm honestly demotivated from working on anything Xonotic related now, after getting struck with such garbage out of nowhere just as I was preparing to try and do more for it again: I apologize to everyone expecting more VT updates, please understand it causes a sour taste to even think about the project for now. If and when the situation cools down in some form, I shall feel comfortable picking up my work there again. I honestly wish Xonotic could switch engines: There's an ongoing plan to move to the newer Daemon engine (used by the game Unvanquished) but just like the weapon / ammo refractor it's taking more than a decade to complete. Both are Quake 1 / 2 / 3 based though, that's pretty ancient: We should at least be using the newer idTech 4 as a base, if not Tesseract (RedEclipse engine) or Godot which is basically the Unity / Unreal Engine of open-source. This would of course require porting the assets and rewriting the game code from scratch, so yeah... don't see that happening I'm afraid. I have been working on a lot of stuff none the less: Blender, TheDarkMod, now even 0ad, etc. Just little steps as usual so not much to show: Doubt anyone would be interested to see how today I added a little area to a map in one game, redid this one material for that one Blender scene, so on and so forth. I know updates are slow for this reason as I'm not motivated to write about what I'm doing until it's actually something worth showing: Thank you for your continued support and hopefully I'll have more to show for in the coming month.

[azspot]

Apple have put a lot of effort into making realtime face recognition work with the iPhone X. You can't fool an iPhone X with a photo or even a simple mask: it does depth mapping to ensure your eyes are in the right place (and can tell whether they're open or closed) and recognize your face from underlying bone structure through makeup and bruises. It's running continuously, checking pretty much as often as every time you'd hit the home button on a more traditional smartphone UI, and it can see where your eyeballs are pointing. The purpose of this is to make it difficult for a phone thief to get anywhere if they steal your device. but it means your phone can monitor your facial expressions and correlate it against app usage. Your phone will be aware of precisely what you like to look at on its screen. With addiction-seeking deep learning and neural-network generated images, it is in principle possible to feed you an endlessly escallating payload of arousal-maximizing inputs. It might be Facebook or Twitter messages optimized to produce outrage, or it could be porn generated by AI to appeal to kinks you aren't even consciously aware of. But either way, the app now owns your central nervous system—and you will be monetized.

Charlie's Diary

[musicheritageuk]

Closing Music Heritage UK

It’s with a heavy heart that we announce the end of Music Heritage UK.   

Following a long period of consideration we, the Trustees, have decided that now is the right time to call it a day. Owing to personal and professional reasons, founder and chief executive James Ketchell can no longer devote as much time as he’d like to promoting, protecting and preserving music heritage. 

Our initial idea was borne out of a belief that as a country we weren’t doing enough to celebrate our proud popular music history. We thought we could use our iconic history to encourage music tourism, support live music venues, and ensure that our memorabilia and archival history was preserved for future generations to come. In hindsight this was a huge and broad ask and although we’ve had a small impact in all of those respective areas we were unable to make it work financially and take it beyond a volunteer-led hobby. Since our inception we’ve seen the launch of a number of other organisations with deeper pockets, more time to devote and different business models who are all doing great work in their respective fields. Our work helped to set the scene for all of those, so we can leave knowing that live music, music tourism and music history are in a much healthier position than when we started. Over the seven years we’ve been operating we’ve achieved some great things. This includes writing the country’s first, and to date only, exploration of the potential for music tourism, launched a successful podcast series on music history, helped the George Tavern in East London campaign to stay open, and produced great interactive maps and timelines on some of the country’s iconic acts and blogged with sometimes furious purpose. And we’re rightly proud of all of it all. Thanks There are numerous people who have helped Music Heritage UK over the years, none more so than you the supporters. Thanks to everyone who liked, tweeted and followed us. This, of course, extends to the individual donors who financially supported us. Thank you. Firstly, we’d like to thank the various Trustees of Music Heritage UK.  Chairmen Chris Basiurski and Panikos Efthimiou, members Andy Grazebrook, Jamie Credland and Martin Bowman. Thanks for your support and guidance over the years. A special mention to our ambassadors, Pete Cafferkey, Lee Sargent and Sheryl Davis who provided much needed advice, support and contacts. A special thank you to Sheryl who is doing so much great work in the States to preserve music history. Thanks to our website developer Digitalime who provided us with two affordable websites, Sutori who helped us with our interactive music timelines and recreating the Stones in the Park gig in realtime on Twitter, designer and photographer Gareth Logue for his work on a number of projects and cartoonist George Leigh who drew a great picture for us to use. Also a special shout out to those who volunteered their time for us over the years including Steve Heath who worked with us with our map on Bob Dylan in the UK. We’d also like to thank Charlie from Where is my Mind? quiz and Ronan from Ringo: Music Bingo who ran music events/quizzes for us (see both of them at End of the Road this year). A special thank you to Danny Pockets who is sadly no longer with us. I’m truly sorry we were never able to get our exhibition idea off the ground. We’d like to thank all the people and places that inspired our podcasts and made them great. This includes Hawkwind, The Zombies, founder of the Isle of Wight Festivals Ray Foulk, artist and David Bowie’s mate George Underwood, the Royal Albert Hall, The Roundhouse and the yank with an in-depth knowledge of Britpop, Alison. We’d like to thank UK Music for working with us to publish Imagine, to date the only report into the potential for music tourism. Thanks to Jo Dipple, Tom Keil and Jon Todd for believing in us and making it happen. To the inspirational people we worked with over the years notably Pauline Forster at the George Tavern whose  never-ending energy, passion and love for her venue should be an inspiration for all. Henry Scott-Irvine and Phil Ryan from the Save Denmark Street campaign who fought for what they believed was right in the face of a multi-million pound central London development and the associated politics, spin and untruths that come with it. And Bruce Cherry who passionately believes in the potential for music tourism. Our money We have decided to distribute our remaining funds to two projects which we’ve supported online over the years. We have split what remains between the recently reopened Eel Pie Island Museum and Coventry’s Music Museum. These are two awesome DIY music projects led by two truly inspirational curators, Michele Whitby and Pete Chambers who will make great use of our money. We’re delighted that our donations will continue to support music history and hopefully help these two initiatives to survive and prosper. We’ve sent them £744 each, which although not life changing, will go some way to helping them keep on keepin’ on. Please do pay them a visit if you can. The future We’ll keep the website up and running for a few more months. Our podcasts will still be on iTunes for the time being but will eventually have to be pulled. They will be archived on Mixcloud, however. For those with a particular interest in music tourism, the Music Tourism Association has launched - with Bruce Cherry at the helm - and will continue to work within and outside the industry to generate more support in this area. James will continue to explore his interest in music history but in a different and a more flexible way. Stay tuned for more from him in the near future! 

The music Finally. The Music. Because that’s always been what this has supposed to be about. Our heartfelt thanks to the great bands and artists who inspired us over the years. Without you Music Heritage UK was nothing. Love, Peace and Rock and Roll. X

[holytheoristtastemaker]

 If you're a penetration tester, there are numerous tools you can use to help you accomplish your goals.

From scanning to post-exploitation, here are ten tools you must know if you are into cybersecurity.

What is Cybersecurity?

Being a cybersecurity engineer means being responsible for an entire network. This network includes computers, routers, mobile phones, and everything that connects to the internet.

Thanks to the rise of Internet of Things, we see more and more devices connecting to the internet every day. Services like Shodan are proof of how dangerous it is to have an internet-connected device without adequate security.

We cannot rely on Antivirus software either, given how sophisticated today’s hackers are. Besides, most attacks nowadays use social engineering as their entry point. This makes it even harder for cybersecurity professionals to detect and mitigate these attacks.

Covid-19 has become another major catalyst for growing cyber-attacks. Employees working from home don’t have access to the same enterprise-level security architectures in their workplace.

The growing number of cyber-attacks have also increased the demand for cybersecurity professionals around the world. Due to this increasing demand, Cybersecurity has been attracting a lot of experts as well as beginners.

For those of you who are new to Cybersecurity, hacking is not as cool as it looks on TV. And there is a high probability that you will end up in jail.

However, being a penetration tester or a white hat hacker is different – and beneficial – since you will be playing with the same tools black hat hackers (the bad ones) play with. Except for this time, it's legal, and your goal is to help companies discover security vulnerabilities so they can fix them.

You can learn more about the types of hackers here.

It is always hard to find the right tools to get started in any domain, especially if you are a beginner. So here are 10 tools to help you get started as a cybersecurity engineer.

Top Tools for Beginner Cybersecurity Engineers

Wireshark

Having a solid foundation in Networking is essential to becoming a good penetration tester. After all, the internet is a bunch of complex networks that communicate with each other. If you are new to Networking, I recommend this playlist by Network Direction.

Wireshark is the world’s best network analyzer tool. It is an open-source software that enables you to inspect real-time data on a live network.

Wireshark can dissect packets of data into frames and segments giving you detailed information about the bits and bytes in a packet.

Wireshark supports all major network protocols and media types. Wireshark can also be used as a packet sniffing tool if you are in a public network. Wireshark will have access to the entire network connected to a router.

Wireshark UI

Sites like Facebook and Twitter are encrypted now, thanks to HTTPS. This means that even though you can capture packets from a victim computer in transit to Facebook, those packets will be encrypted.

Still, being able to capture data packets in realtime is an important utility for a penetration tester.

Nmap

Nmap is the first tool you will come across when you begin your career as a penetration tester. It is a fantastic network scanning tool that can give you detailed information about a target. This includes open ports, services, and the operating system running on the victim’s computer.

Nmap is popular among penetration testers for many reasons. It is simple, flexible, and extensible. It offers a simple command-line interface where you can add a few flags to choose different types of scans.

Nmap also offers simple ping scans all the way up to aggressive scans that provide detailed ports and service information.

Zenmap UI

Nmap also provides a GUI tool called Zenmap with added utilities. You can build visual network maps and choose scans via dropdowns. Zenmap is a great place to start playing with Nmap commands if you are a beginner.

I recently wrote a detailed article on Nmap that you can read here.

Ncat (Previously Netcat)

Netcat is often referred to as the swiss-army knife in networking.

Netcat is a simple but powerful tool that can view and record data on a TCP or UDP network connections. Netcat functions as a back-end listener that allows for port scanning and port listening.

You can also transfer files through Netcat or use it as a backdoor to your victim machine. This makes is a popular post-exploitation tool to establish connections after successful attacks. Netcat is also extensible given its capability to add scripting for larger or redundant tasks.

In spite of the popularity of Netcat, it was not maintained actively by its community. The Nmap team built an updated version of Netcat called Ncat with features including support for SSL, IPv6, SOCKS, and HTTP proxies.

Metasploit

If there is one tool I love, its Metasploit. Metasploit is not just a tool, but a complete framework that you can use during an entire penetration testing lifecycle.

Metasploit contains exploits for most of the vulnerabilities in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure database. Using metasploit, you can send payloads to a target system and gain access to it though a command line interface.

Metasploit is very advanced with the ability to do tasks such as port scanning, enumeration, and scripting in addition to exploitation. You can also build and test your own exploit using the Ruby programming language.

Metasploit was open-source until 2009 after which Rapid7 acquired the product. You can still access free community edition and use all its features.

Armitage UI

Metasploit used to be a purely command-line tool. A Java-based GUI called Armitage was released in 2013.

Nikto

Nikto is an open-source tool that is capable of performing extensive web server scans. Nikto can help you scan for harmful files, misconfigurations, outdated software installations, and so on.

It also checks for the presence of multiple index files, HTTP server configurations, and the installed web server software.

Nikto is the preferred tool for general web server security audits. Nikto is fast, but not quiet. You can scan a large web server pretty quickly but intrusion detection systems will easily pick up these scans. However, there is support for anti-IDS plugins in case you want to perform stealthy scans.

Burp Suite

When it comes to pen-testing web applications, Burpsuite has all the answers for you. BurpSuite aims to be an all in one set of tools for a variety of web application pen-testing use cases. It is also a popular tool among professional web app security researchers and bug bounty hunters.

Burpsuite’s tools work together to support the entire web application testing lifecycle. From scanning to exploitation, Burpsuite offers all the tools you need for breaking into web applications.

One of Burp Suite’s main features is its ability to intercept HTTP requests. HTTP requests usually go from your browser to a web server and then the web server sends a response back. With Burp Suite, you can perform Man-in-the-middle operations to manipulate the request and response.

Burpusite has an excellent user interface. Burpsuite also has tools for automation to make your work faster and more efficient.

In addition to its default features, Burpsuite is extensible by adding plugins called BApps.

John the Ripper

Passwords are still the de-facto standard of authentication in most systems. Even if you successfully get into a server or a database you will have to decrypt the password to gain privilege escalation.

John the Ripper is a simple tool used for cracking passwords. It is a super-fast password cracker with support for custom wordlists. It can run against most types of encryption methods like MD5 and SHA.

Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng is a set of tools that help you to work with wireless networks. Aircrack comprises of tools that can capture wireless networks, crack WPA keys, inject packets, and so on.

A few tools in the Aircrack-ng suite include:

airodump — Captures packets

aireplay — Packet injection

aircrack — Crack WEP and WPA

airdecap — Decrypt WEP and WPA

Aircrack contains excellent algorithms for cracking WiFi passwords and to capture wireless traffic. It can also decrypt encrypted packets, making it a complete suite of tools for wireless penetration testing.

In short, you can use Aircrack for monitoring, attacking, and debugging all types of wireless networks.

Nessus

Nessus is a popular enterprise vulnerability scanner. Nessus is built to be a complete vulnerability analysis and reporting tool. While you can scan and find ports or services using Nmap, Nessus will tell you the list of vulnerabilities and how they can be exploited.

Nessus has an excellent user interface, tens of thousands of plugins, and supports embedded scripting. It is often favored by enterprises since it helps companies audit for various compliances like PCI and HIPPA. Nessus will also tell you the severity of the vulnerabilities so that you can focus on those threats accordingly.

Nessus UI

Nessus is not a free software, but offers a limited free home edition. Nessus has an open-source alternative called Open-Vas that offers similar features.

Snort

Snort is an open-source software for detecting and preventing intrusions in a network. It can perform live traffic analysis and log incoming packets to detect port scans, worms, and other suspicious behavior.

Snort is used for defense compared to most of the other tools in this list. However, snort helps you understand the attacker’s methods by logging their activity. You can also build DNS sinkholes to redirect attacker traffic while finding attack vectors through Snort.

Snort also has a web-based GUI called BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine). BASE provides a web front-end to query and analyze the alerts coming from Snort.

Conclusion

In today’s networked world, everyone from government agencies to banks stores critical information in the cloud. Cyber-attacks even have the potential to cripple an entire nation. Hence, protecting these networks is not a choice, but an absolute necessity.

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced cybersecurity engineer, you will find these ten tools invaluable. Good luck on your journey to becoming a successful penetration tester. Learn more tools from the Security Tools Directory.

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Conceptualize It (Group)

The Homeless Artisan’s Experience

The eCommerce Experience

Experience of the e-Commerce customer via the website

For the average consumer, they’ll follow the following flow:

Browse the marketplace for products and services as desired

Add products or services to cart

When viewing the cart, there will be realtime statistics (if possible) on the current levels of homelessness or supportive sayings to encourage shoppers to make purchases in order to help the homeless artisans

Includes a list of products being bought as a separate list on the same page as Services, then after both is the sub-total

Products section lists quantity (with -/+ to change), option to remove from cart, price per unit

Services section lists date/time, option to remove from cart, price per service

After the above sections (if applicable), the subtotal will be listed with the next step to choose a payment method

Include “Customers also bought…” section after the list of things in the cart, so customers can bundle other potential items

Check out to buy the items/services in their cart

Input Name, Contact Number, shipping address, permanent address (if different than shipping)

Next page would be delivery options and payment forms

Donation opportunity section - buttons to choose to donate $2, $5, %10, $25, $50, $100, or other amount

Also has the option to subscribe to donation where they’ll pay $1+ per month (they can choose how much)

Option to write in who the donation is a gift in honor of

Donation certificate will be emailed to the recipient

Can check out via PayPal, Amazon pay, credit/debit card, etc.

Option to add Themed or Randomized package

If they have the majority of a themed package in their cart already, suggest that themed package in this stage

Next would be Review Order & Submit page

If buying a product, they’ll receive an email confirming their purchase and will be notified via email when their order ships which will include the tracking number

If buying a service, they’ll receive an email confirming their booking for the date/time reserved

(The artisan will confirm on their end using one of MAP’s tools)

We will send auto-generated emails that will go out with reminders 1 week before, 3 days before, 1 day before, and 1 hour before the service date/time

After any purchase is made, we’ll send a follow-up email saying thank you for their purchase

This email will also include links below the Thank You part which can connect them to further reading on the status of homelessness and provide action items of what they can do to help reduce it (donate, volunteer, etc.)

Opportunities to donate again sent out via email occasionally

The customer’s abilities on the website prototype:

Homepage

Can access shop pages - New, Products, Services, Discounted

New - the newest products and services available - highlighting the newest people in the transition program

Products - example categories include paintings, totes, jewelry (rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings), tassels, keychains, charms, sculptures and pottery, knit blankets or quilts, wooden sculptures

Filterable by price, colors (if applicable)

Services - example categories include electricians, musical talent (instruments/singing), mural paintings and graffiti, basic tasks like mowing lawns

Packages aka SUBPACKAGES - the option to choose a themed package or a package of randomized products

Themed packages example: Home Improvement & Decor bundle could include a piece or art or sculpture, electrician services, lawn mowing service

New Car bundle could include handmade rearview mirror ornaments, car wash, keychain

Randomized package - you can choose which products you’d like (or opt not to), and we’ll send you a package with the desired number of products

Tiers - $10, $25, $50, $100 monthly subscription options.

Music - subscription and licensing platform for our musically talented artisans. Consumers can subscribe to listen or license songs for personal or commercial use - like soundstripe.com

Sale - the products/services that are on sale at the time

Donate - this button directs them to a donation page, where they can donate $2, $5, %10, $25, $50, $100, or other amounts

Also has the option to subscribe to donation where they’ll pay $1+ per month (they can choose how much)

Option to write in who the donation is a gift in honor of

Donation certificate will be emailed to the recipient

Once within a category, you can filter by artisan if you have a preferred person to buy from

Search - you can search for names of homeless artisans or by product characteristic then filter for more specific search results

Can filter by:

Product or Service, Category (for home, for garden, for car, etc)

Artisan (the person that made the product/service)

City/State/Country (where it’s from, for us right now it’ll be LA, CA, USA)

Color

Wholesale

If you’re looking to buy a large chunk of products or services wholesale, we’re able to offer you significant discounts. Feel free to reach out!

Custom Order

For each product page

Small thumbnails down the left

Larger, zoomable picture to the right of that with arrows to the left or right of it to move between pictures of the product

Heart/Save to Wishlist button overlaid with picture (or the Add to Wishlist button below)

Information on the product to the right:

Title of Product

Artisan’s name, with their overall rating

Description

Quantity (starts at 1, increments up by whole numbers but can type in amount) and relative price

Options to Add to Cart or Add to Wishlist

Unhide sections for most specifics:

Artisan - About the artisan - image & name of the artisan with “Learn more…”

Details - dimensions, materials, care instructions (if applicable), best practices, disclaimer: “As with all handmade items, slight variations will occur”

Reviews

Rating, details, reviewer’s name

Ask us a question!

Modal window with space to input name, email, phone number, message

Share buttons to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, our hashtag

“You May Also Like…” recommendations right below

For each service page

Information on service listed:

Title/type of service

Artisan’s name, with their overall rating

Description

Calendar for booking

Choose your date and time, realtime availability of the artisan

Options to Add to Cart or Add to Wishlist

If there’s no date/time selected, you can still Add to Wishlist

Unhide sections for most specifics:

Artisan - About the artisan - image & name of the artisan with “Learn more…”

Details -

Reviews

Rating, details, reviewer’s name

Ask us a question!

Modal window with space to input name, email, phone number, message

Share buttons to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, our hashtag

“You May Also Like…” recommendations right below

Your Account

Login with Email/Password & “Forgot your password?” link

Sign Up with first name, last name, email, password

Once you’re logged in, you have access to:

My Details

Change name

Change shipping and permanent address

Change phone number

My Wishlist

You can save products and services to your wishlist which will show up here!

Share your wishlist via link, email, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, tumblr, LinkedIn

Logout

Your Cart (can access if logged in or not)

In the footer, there will be the following links:

About

Our Story

We’re a team within the Process & Perspectives class of USC’s Iovine and Young master’s program: Design@USC. We were tasked to solve world peace, so we focused in on reducing the homeless population by helping them get back on their feet. Our mission is to seek out those that are homeless that want to make a change in their situation and help them do it. Our organization measures success by how many lives are improved or positively impacted by our work.

Our Team

Meet Penny!

[insert quick intro about you]

Meet Amelia!

[insert quick intro about you]

Meet Michelle!

She grew up in Southern California then went across the world to study abroad in Paris, France. After transferring to the University of Southern California (USC) and completing her undergraduate degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics, she is currently pursuing her master’s degree within USC’s Iovine and Young Academy.

Events

This would list events such as launch party, pop-up shops, community events, etc.

Help

Contact Us

Phone Number

Email

FAQ

General

How can I stay up to date on news regarding MAP’s latest efforts? You can join our newsletter! [insert link to join]

Shipping

Do you ship to PO boxes? Sure! We can ship via USPS and FedEx.

Can I cancel or modify my order before it ships? Please reach out to us via [phone number] or [email] if you need to adjust your order. We will do our best to accommodate, but added costs may apply.

Return Policy

If you’re not completely satisfied with your purchase, you may return it within 14 days for a full refund or store credit by contacting us via [email]. You may only return the item for store credit within 30 days of the purchase  Please note that shipping costs are non-refundable.

Shipping & Tracking

When your order is shipped, we’ll send your tracking number via email. Check the status of your orders often to ensure a successful delivery!

Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions

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Artisans

Meet Our Artisans

List picture with name & learn to “Learn More”

Links lead to in-depth bio of the artisan, explaining their life up to that point (whatever they’d like to share with us)

Resources

Training program for marketable skills

For creating products: knitting, weaving, bath bombs, jewelry making, block prints, candle making, ceramics, cooking, crochet, embroidery, glass etching, metalworking, leatherwork, natural dye, pom poms and tassels, sewing, soapmaking, woodcarving, painting

For performing services: electricians, musical performances (instruments, singing), lawn-mowing, car-washing, etc

[this relates to Amelia’s layout on the experience of the homeless artisan]

Feel free to input other resources ideas here!!

Notes:

A great next step if we were to actually implement this solution would be to join the Fair Trade Federation https://www.fairtradefederation.org/

The eCommerce Mockup

The Facility Diagram

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Mashup Web Top 5

Mashup is to use other website’s open API to put some of those website functions into one website. For example, we can put google map into a company website for customers to find the nearest company’s store or we can have a blog with Youtube video and Flickr photos in it. Such combination is the mashup.

Mashup web List:

Trendsmap

https://www.trendsmap.com/

This is a realtime local Twitter trend map. People can directly see what is the trend in local area and find the news.

Criminal watch dog

http://www.criminalwatchdog.com/neighborhood-watch/

This is a website that people can find the nearest sex offenders in their neighborhood and then they can protect themselves better.

Coffee seeker

http://coffeeseeker.com/

This is a website that people can find the nearest coffee shop.

Where is this?

http://www.where-is-this.com/

This is a website that people can upload a picture and find out the place which the photo was taken.

Fast food map

http://www.fastfoodmaps.com/

This is the website that people can find the nearest fast food shop.

Top 3.

3. Where is this?

http://www.where-is-this.com/

2. Trendsmap

https://www.trendsmap.com/

1.  Criminal watch dog

http://www.criminalwatchdog.com/neighborhood-watch/

I would use Trendsmap to find the local hot news in Twitter that happened near my home and use Criminal watch dog to find the nearest sex offender and avoid that area. I would also use Where is This? when I want to know a photo’s location.