app proposal

Welcome!

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Unmet need: We need to have our tasks organized.!

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Student Organizations: A group of students working together to fulfill the needs of other students at their school.!

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Meeting Observations!•  Organizational issues with events!

•  Finding people who are available for events is difficult!

•  Keeping track of whoʼs doing what is complicated!

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Jenn, Special Events Chair!

•  Problems keeping track of contacts!

•  Rely on emails, text, and meeting to communicate!

•  “If there was an app...that would be really nice. Then we can communicate right away to each other, all of us at once.”!

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Alex, Publicity Chair!

•  Not always aware of changing information!

•  Often relying on communication through Facebook & text messages outside of meetings!

•  “I would love a giant calendar...that has...all of our events and when things need to get sent out, to get approved, when things need to get printed, when contracts go through...”!

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Chava, President!

•  Trouble keeping track of whoʼs doing what!

•  “The problem is that thereʼs so many miscommunications and what actually has and has not gotten done that sometimes everything will just get lost.”!

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Observations!•  Often unorganized!

•  Communication between board members is difficult!

•  Planning events is time consuming!

•  Keeping track of whoʼs doing what is problematic!!

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Draft Ideas!Task Manager!!Budget Tracker!!Events Calendar!!!

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Planning!Problem!•  Ideas get lost & forgotten!

•  Difficult to keep track of event dates & info!

•  Keeping contacts/vendors organized!

•  Communication!!!

Solution!•  Digital idea notebook!•  Photo capability to add photos into

notebook!•  Editable calendar!•  Add events with voice commands!•  Add photos to events for reference!•  Google maps show location of

events!•  Contact manager!

•  In-app messaging system!•  Voice-to-text messaging!

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Budgeting!Problem!•  Brainstorming viable

fundraising solutions!•  Money management!

•  Money allocation!!

Solution!•  Risk calculator!

•  Cloud-synced money tracker!

•  Cloud-synced spreadsheet of how much money is allocated to what!

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Tasks!Problem!•  Assigning tasks!

•  Task management!!

Solution!•  Task invites!•  Add tasks with voice

command!•  Task checklist with alerts to

other members when task is complete!

•  Google maps show location of tasks, alerts when near task !

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Scheduling!Problem!•  Scheduling meetings and

events!!

Solution!•  Editable calendar!

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Additional Features!Problem!•  Social Media!!

Solution!•  Organization social media

accounts all synced (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr. Etc.)!

•  Ability to capture and upload photos & videos within the app!

•  Update statuses!

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Evernote!• Simple user interface!

• Easy to add notes/ notebooks!

• Organize by notebooks or tags!

• Simple search functionality!

• Clean look!

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Groups!• Easy to add/edit groups!

• Automatically organizes contacts in same company!

• Interface is busy!

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Dropbox!• Clean look!

• User-friendly!

• Simple to upload/access files!

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Remember the Milk!• Organized by day!

• Alerts when near location of tasks!

• Set priorities!

• Confusing to add new location!!

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Weave!• Add tasks to projects!

• Set deadlines for tasks!

• Set alerts!

• Tracks income and expenses!

• Shows percentage complete!

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HootSuite!• Clean, inviting interface!

• Syncs all social media!

• Check to select where to post to!

• Access to all feeds through homepage!

• Easy to add accounts!

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TweetDeck!• Combines all newsfeeds!

• Check off where to post to!

• Difficult to read!

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Thank You!

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