Design4Green-2018

Challenge of eco-design focused on designing sustainable solutions for everyday purposes. 48 hours non-stop coding challange, November 21-23, 2018.

The task was to develop a web application for online survey consisting of 88 questions.The survey was designed to assess the maturity of companies in France in terms of setting up eco-design digital services. An ultimate objective was to minimize the energy consumption and carbon footprint of the application without hampering user experience.

Built With

• HTML
• CSS
• Python 2.7
• Java Script
• Flask 1.0.2
• MongoDB 3.2.11

Description

The solution to the design challenge is composed of one html page with a survey, which content is provided by the challenge organizators. A user is given an opportunity to save answers and share the questionnaire using a generated link.

Architecture

1. User hits the url.

2. The GET request is sent to the Flask server. The functionality is developed in endpoint.py.

3. main.html file is passed to the user.

4-6. Upon loading main.html the server pulls questions from MongoDB.

7. The updated html file is shown to the user

API

Endpoint address	Parameters	Content type	Response type	Method
/			html	GET
/getAllBasicQuestions		application/json	application/json	POST
/saveAllAnswers	answers	application/json	application/json	POST
/pauseAnswering	answers	application/json	application/json	POST
/continue	id	application/json	application/json	POST
/generate			file	POST

Sustainability measurement

1. Our final ecoindex turned out to be 90 (Category A).

2. Source Lines Of Code: 673.

3. Total loading size 30.1 KB.

Authors

• Anastasiia Grishina
• Feruzjon Muyassarov
• Krishna Teja Vaddepalli
• Maliha Rahman Mishi
• Sami Kabir