I have already made my research and sub questions, and now I am in the midst of coming up with my interview questions for Capstone. My research question was a little hard to come up with because it has changed many times, but I finally settled for this: “What is Citymaps and how has it changed since it was first developed?” At first, I came up with the question, “How has Citymaps evolved over the years?”, but after a short amount of time, I changed it. Our class was given a chart that rates questions one through four, four being the best, and the chart would list different aspects of a question rated one, two, three, and four. My question was rated a two, so I decided to make it better. I changed it to this: “How has Citymaps evolved and how can it keep growing to compete with major mapping companies like Google Maps?” I decided to keep the subject of Citymaps evolving in the question because I know that my uncle, the founder and CEO of Citymaps, has come a very long way. This question was a great question and would be rated a four, but there was a problem. Citymaps is not a famous comapany that has tons and tons of research, so the only way for me to figure out how Citymaps can keep growing is the interview, which isn’t enough. Also, out of the research that I found, I could only find how Citymaps has evolved and about Citymaps, not any clue of how it can keep growing. This led me to changing the question to my current one, which will be much easier to research.

Coming up with my sub questions wasn’t very challenging. The questions are:

1. How have major changes to appearance of Citymaps make it better?
2. Would the company be more different if the company had a different amount of employees?  
3. What parts of Citymaps make it unique from other mapping companies?
4. How can Citymaps make an impact on the world and make a user’s life easier?
5. What is the difference between the purpose of Citymaps when it was created and the purpose of Citymaps today?  

As I came up with the questions, I thought about the actual app, the business, and Citymaps’ role in society. I came up with ten questions, but as I read over them, I realized that some of them don’t fit as a sub question and could only be answered by someone who works at Citymaps. I decided to switch five of the questions to be interview questions because the interview will be with a someone who works at Citymaps.