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== Project Overview ==

*Busy families have to manage and remember many to do’s, scheduled events, and activities related to the management of their households. Often, disorganized or ad hoc methods or tools are used to manage these, including post-its, reminders stuck on the refrigerator, various digital apps, or overloaded memories. This leads to stress and chaos, and it’s time consuming and cumbersome.

*Project Cue saves time and brings peace of mind to the entire family with its simple and intuitive solution to turn the daily coordination chaos across the family members to organized control.  

==Early Exploration==

*Project Cue grew out of the study and research conducted by the Project Link team. Initially, the team looked at a hub that would manage smart devices in the home. They evaluated what was desirable from a hub angle, if it was going to be viable from a Mozilla perspective, and desirable for customer.  The team used the "Design Thinking" innovation approach by IDEO, where the philosophy of Product Innovation is at the center of technology (feasibility), person (desirability) & business (viability). After prototyping certain fundamental elements like first time user experience, device discovery, interoperability, and a rules engine, and evaluating the market and competitor landscape, the team concluded that a hub was not where we should be.  

*While the team was concluding its hub experimentation and research, it considered the following initial target segments for further study:

**Busy families

**Well educated parents in the medium to high income bracket

*These families are leading an extremely busy & demanding lifestyle constantly juggling many different aspects of their daily life spanning home, work, kids, shopping, hobbies etc.

*In majority of the cases, the mother is the one who typically orchestrates the communication across the members of the household/caretakers, organizes schedule & essentially responsible for a smooth running household!

**The busy families want a way to create to-do lists & shopping lists that is accessible from anywhere

The results of the study led the team to the conclusion that it should pivot to a smart digital assistant, or more commonly called a family organizer.  This family organizer could include scheduling, list management, and reminders. We don’t know yet if all these possible tracks will result in one product.  That’s what we need to research/test. Integration or convergence of the scheduling and list management aspects of the family organizer could come later, but we don’t know that yet. The team decided to focus initially on reminders to provide the who, when, what, where, and whether recurring for the busy family members' to do's, events, and activities, and Project Cue was born.  

==Validation==

The initial focus on Reminders would test the following hypothesis:

*We believe that there are:

**by building a friction-free simple way to organize and keep track of the daily activities that are needed for the management of the household

**we will provide them with more peace of mind and a sense of being more in control of their household and on top of their needs.

*A prototype is being developed within a month-long time frame to test how the use of a voice interface for reminders might provide a friction free, easy and better way to help busy family members manage the activities and events related to their household management, and provide them with more peace of mind and a sense of control.

* Specifically, the Project Cue team will build and test with the target market a web app prototype that provides the ability to:

*if we can differentiate the reminders functionality by making it available for the entire family  

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* Sam Giles

* Francisco Jordano

* Julien Wajsberg

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We maintain lists of issues for which we are looking for help.

We also maintain a full, unclassified, list of ongoing issues. If you wish to help, don't hesitate to look at them, but they may not be as easy or as detailed:

We've established [https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/c/connected-devices/project-link Project Link on Discourse]

We are using some agile practices:

* "Stand-up" meetings happen [https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/foxlink-standup on etherpad] and on IRC every weekday between 5pm and 5:15pm UTC.