When it came to coming up with the Qwicky App as a group it just jumped out at us. When Argenis had problems accessing his student email account it allowed us to start brainstorming on a way to possibly fix that problem. As people of this technological era, we are always making new usernames and passwords and it becomes overwhelming to remember everything. So with the Qwicky App connected to your email and all of the other student networks everything is under one username and password automatically signed in and on your mobile device or tablet. Since we ourselves were students coming up with this idea we thought of something that would better our learning experience and possibly help others in the long run. Since we have the technology and means its best to use it to our advantage and since nothing like what we thought of actually existed the Qwicky App seemed like the right way to go.
How the actually App would work and what its features were was something we had to work on. We had to basically make a list of all the things that would better benefit us if we had the chance to have an application like this on our own phones. In order to understand how we can feature certain things we also needed to understand as a group how an application actually works and is built. Randy and Argenis did a lot of the research on that part then giving Blerta and Christina idea’s to work on as far as what the application could feature and how it would do certain things like send notifications to your phone and access updates.
Building an actual app is somewhat was somewhat of a fundamental way of coming up with a solid idea for a product. We researched different way’s apps were built and one website really broke it down for us nicely enough to understand the actual process and in turn allowed us to increase the productivity that our app could create altogether. One way to go about building an app is to use the web angle. Web apps are becoming increasingly popular in the tech savvy world. The app Builder is a website that offers advice on building a web app. The app builder site states the following: “Web Apps are revolutionary! Say goodbye to expensive developer fees and nervously waiting for subjective app store approvals. Web Apps can be published instantly by anyone for free. Using the latest HTML5 technology your Web App will magically work across all popular devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows” as shown on the App Builder website (n.d). The app builder allows those that are interested in building a web app to go about the process easily. This helped us shape our idea more thoroughly and when it comes down to it in order to create something you need to understand the steps in order to make it.
Once we went through the glitches and ran through what we wanted to create we also had to make sure nothing like it really existed on the market. We researched online and found different tech blogs and read what kind of things people have suggested in the past on making app’s and what kind of app’s should be made. Some of it really helped shed some light on some pretty good ideas which helped us try to shape ours even better. Kumar (2013, March 13) made a lot of suggestions on this blog site that led us to think about connecting the CUNY emailing system to the app as well. Some other suggestions about app’s in general really helped us make ours something that would be more marketable. The name of the app the Qwicky App came from Blerta just because it sounded like something that would be quick and instant which is what the app is all about. Not having to go through the hassel of going through 15 different directories to get information about one class.
In order to present our idea the right way we thought of making a powerpoint presentation and using our technology wits to woo the crowd. It helps to know how to use other means especially since our product is an app. We have to prove that we know what we are talking about and what better way to do that but use other ways to visually present an idea that will be booming in the market pretty soon.
The only thing I would have suggested for this project was that we would have had a little more time with it. There was a lot of thought involved and we could have mastered everything more efficiently if we had more time. Maybe if the project was done before the research paper we would have mastered our researching skills better and it would have helped us better our research papers in the long run. Just a thought, but overall the project itself was a success because the app we created is definitely a catch and we can say that it would be something that every student could definitely benefit from and use along with faculty to make their learning experience smoother and easier than it is now.
