Judging Criteria
Civic Benefit (20%)
The Civic Benefit criterion indicates the degree to which a submitted project could increase the efficiency of City operations.
Questions to consider:
- Does the project demonstrate a clear benefit to the City of Buffalo?
- Could the project improve the customer experience?
- Could the project reduce repetition?
- Could the project help the City deliver services in new, efficient ways?
- Could the project facilitate collaboration?
Scalability (20%)
The Scalability criterion indicates the degree to which a submitted project demonstrates potential for future upgrades to improve upon the solution and expand to other cities nationwide.
Questions to consider:
- Does the project demonstrate room to expand in scope, service, and function?
- Does the project have the ability to incorporate and support additional business processes (or a clear path and ability to build this capacity with additional seed funding)?
- Does the project have the capability to handle an enhanced level of operations without constraints or structural bottlenecks (or a clear path and ability to build this capacity with additional seed funding)?
- Is the project physically sustainable (stable and reliable) or on a path to become so given additional seed funding?
- Does the project address a civic challenge that applies to other cities?
- Could the project supply enough value to potentially win prospective contracts with other cities?
- Could the project supply enough value to receive a testimonial from the City of Buffalo?
User-Friendly Design (20%)
The User-Friendly Design criterion indicates how positive the emotional, cognitive and physical interactions are with the submitted project.
Questions to consider:
- Does the project communicate efficiently and effectively?
- Is the solution polished?
- Is the interface clear and simple?
Functionality (20%)
The Functionality criterion gauges the level to which a submitted project performs for a user.
Questions to consider:
- Is the project feature complete (or have a clear path to become so given additional seed funding)?
- Does it work in a way the user would expect?
- Is navigation intuitive?
- Is it accessible?
- Is it usable?
Demo/Description (20%)
The Demo/Description criterion evaluates the clarity and comprehensiveness of a submitted project’s required demonstration or description.
Questions to consider:
- Did the entrant clearly identify the civic challenge addressed by the project?
- Did the entrant describe the solution?
- Did the entrant explain their project’s ability to solve the identified problem?