The problem Seminar Catalogue solves

Our prototype offers a platform where one can find the details of all important seminars and conferences happening worldwide. Now, the user does not have to spend hours searching for events they wish to participate in, they can simply view those events on our website based on the category of their choice. It saves the user's time to a great extent.
Even though there are some other products similar to ours in the market, we provide information to the user in the most simple way possible and have attractive UI/UX designs with an aim to provide the best experience possible to the user.

Since our prototype is a software product, it could be accessible by most internet users. Be it a professor or a student, they can just tap on the web link and can get any information regarding the seminars. Although, in order to give more users this facility, it will be important for them to know about such a product in the market. We can partner up with schools and colleges to make students aware of this product so that they can make the most out of it. Eventually, this will help our network to grow.
This is how we can make our product feasible and scalable

The product we are creating could be a revolution. Our users don't have to surf the internet for hours and hours to gather the information they need on important conferences and seminars. All they have to do is to make tap on our weblink and get all the required information they want. Initially, a smaller number of people would be our end users, but gradually as more people will come to know about it, this will increase the traffic to our website. We know that India's large part of the population is of students and a student network is very strong. If a word is spread among them about how our product is helping them with information and saving a lot of time, more students would want to visit us. From students, teachers would come to know about it, and this way our network will expand globally.

Challenges we ran into

The very first challenge that came in to our way was to gather the relevant data of all the important seminars and conferences happening around the world. We had to go through different websites to collect each and every bit of information about the events so that we are able to display all of it at one place.

After collecting the information, the next challenge was that how the data is to be displayed and how the webpage should look like i.e. it's layout and design. So, we decided to make a simple yet attractive design for user's convenience. Initially, we would display the list of all conferences using cards for each one of it but then another problem was that what if the user does not want to view all of them and is interested in some specific ones. For that we decided to create some filters based on location, date and theme of user's choice. We used array filter() method to implement the filters and by using array.map() property, we would populate the cards. Now, what if the user wanted to search for a conference by it's name? Well, for that we created a search box where user could type the name of event he wants information on and by string matching method we would display the desired result to the user. We also created a button on the cards that would lead directly to the website hosting the event and the user can go through the details in depth over there.

The last challenge was to make the website responsive. For good user experience, it's important that the user can visit the website using any device such as mobile phone, tablets or laptop and for that reason we made our website responsive using bootstrap and media queries.

We tried to make the platform as resourceful as possible in the most simplest way and tried on giving a better user experience keeping in mind the things a user would want in this website such as different searching options, a direct link to the host website etc.