Make an urban park better to visit: choose a visitor group and prioritize the fixes

Redesign what it is like to visit a park in a city. Decide whose visit you improve first and what you would change. ```hint Walk through one visit Trace a single visit from deciding to go until heading home, and mark the points where a particular kind of visitor waits, gives up or has a bad time. ``` ### Clarifying Questions - Are we the city department that runs its parks, or a company building a product around park visits? Is this one park or the city's parks in general? - Are physical changes to the park in scope, or only digital products and services, or a mix? - What is the goal: more visits, happier visitors, safety, fairer access across neighborhoods, or income to pay for upkeep? - Is there a budget or time limit, given that new facilities compete with maintenance money? ### What a Strong Answer Covers - Scope and goal set up front, including whether the levers are physical, digital or both - The visit broken into stages, and a visitor group chosen to serve first, with the reason - That group's pain points tied to specific stages of the visit - Ideas prioritized by stated criteria such as impact, cost, time to deliver and ongoing upkeep, with a first pilot - Success metrics with guardrails, including how park use would actually be measured, and the main risks ### Follow-up Questions - Your budget is cut in half. Which part of the plan survives, and why? - How would you tell whether the changes brought new visitors rather than pulling them away from another park? - How would the plan change for a park in a lower-income neighborhood that few people use today?