DreamHatcher is a collaborative Q&A e-community in which people can share the dreams that they can't realized by themselves with others and receive professional suggestions towards specific questions. The platform helps solve the problem that people are too shy to share their hard-to-realize dreams and it facilitates the communication between the people who have similar dreams. The approach of crowdsourcing makes DreamHatcher a better knowledge management system, so people get the access to solutions quickly and achieve dreams collaboratively.

 

Our team went through several brainstorming sessions to decide the theme of our project. A scenario was created to illustrate how we would build up the connection between different people and facilitate the communication and collaboration among them. We conducted the survey through the Internet to see the real demand of sharing dreams. After that, several design ideas were developed, which benefited us a lot during the process of prototyping. We made use of the iterative prototype to conduct the interviews of contextual inquiry and test the usability of our web platform.