Needfinding updated

I updated a few things on my needfinding document and re-uploaded. I wanted to add to the section B.

Needfinding upload

I tidied up my needfinding document today. I created some graphics for it also. The internet went at home so I raced into college. Luckily I had my name down to be in the college today. I successfully got all of the work I needed to do on needfinding and submitted it when I came home (luckily the internet has come back)!

Needfinding interviews

I interviewed Cecily yesterday and filled out her persona. She found the app good but a bit slow as she was using data at the time. I'm still piecing together my needfinding document but I will submit it on monday.

Needfinding progress

I have been working on needfinding yesterday and today. I have made good progress with it. Yesterday I laid out the document and analysed the different sections that I would be looking at and some websites and today I found even more websites and apps! There are so many! Initially I thought I would find a college app so I went through all of the different college apps, mostly in the United States but some from Ireland also.
The best one I found in Ireland is the UCC app and Colgate University was the best United States one. However, I had certain basic functionality that I needed the app that I was going to examine to meet. Book a class, set reminder etc. So I eventually came across an app called 'Glofox', it's a sort of all-encompassing fitness app scheduler where you can go on and search a lot of different gyms around the world and then you select your gym and book classes from there. Some of which you can pay online for or select the option to pay at the desk. I felt that this app was perfect for what I wanted, simple, straight-forward and to the point.
But I felt that I needed something Irish so I found gym class scheduling apps from Ireland, 'Fit-Hub Letterkenny' is the one I settled on because it is powered by Glofox but is smaller as it concentrates on one gym, the L.I.T app will concentrate on one college so I thought this was appropriate.
I then conducted my analysis on Joe and watched him download and work the app. I have written a good bit of my report but will tidy it up tomorrow after I do Cecily's interview.
We brainstormed in class today and I felt this helped me get a clearer picture in my head of what I need to achieve.

Uploading portfolio issues

I have been having issues uploading my portfolio so I compressed the file size by changing my Illustrator files to jpegs, bringing them into InDesign and changing them into pdfs from there. This has been successful in reducing the file size but I have been unsuccessful in uploading my pdf portfolio to issuu.com. I will need to check this out with Lorraine.

Needfinding

I have read up about needfinding and have started work on this. We are off for rag week this week but next week I will go into class and find other people who are doing the LIT scheduler and brainstorm with them regarding user needs. We will generate at least 10 ideas. In the mean time I will find scheduler apps that I like.