Thursday, 23 February 2017

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.

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