Month: April 2013

Final App Ideas – Slatt Barr

Ticket Swap: 
 This app would allow users to swap their tickets with another fan. For example, if you purchased tickets in a 3 game baseball series and you have tickets for game 1 and can no longer make the game, you are then able to use the app to connect with another user who has tickets for game 3 of the series. By swapping, the tickets wont go to waste. The user would have to add their credit card or pay pal to their profile incase the value of the ticket they intend to swap is higher/lower then the ticket they are receiving. Also, this would help avoid ticket fraud because a user could report a ticket that was fake and receive their money back because the offenders account could be charged.
Pick Up:
This app would allow a user to locate and arrange pick up games in their area. This would be great for former athletes who want to play the sport they love in a no-commitment, low-pressure setting. Also, this would be a great app for people who are looking to pursue a new sports. This app would use a mapping feature to show the location and have a live R.S.V.P. feed to see how many are attending.
Shoe Head:
This app is for “Shoe Heads” who love to collect rare sneakers. This app would be a photo and mapping app where users could share the location and photograph of a rare shoe that they have found. The other users would then be able to contact the store/location where the shoe was spotted if they are interested in buying it. This would mean that users would no longer have to pick apart shoe blogs looking for these finds because they would all be located in one app.

M & M Final Ideas

Here are our three ideas:

1. Pearls and Oysters

There’s something very liberating (and often more enlightening) when seeking advice from an absolute stranger. With this app you can post personal qualms for other users to respond to, and in turn offer up your own pearls of wisdom. Each user creates a profile (real/alter ego) including personality traits, life facts, interests, experiences, random fields of knowledge etc (pretty much anything you think could be relevant). This data is then used to filter/direct the visibility of your posts to different users, if so desired (a randomize option is also available). You may want to gain support from like-minded individuals, or perhaps search for complete opposites to understand another perspective. You can request users that are known for lengthy, empathetic, in-depth responses (pearls) or for more of a brief, brutally honest hit (oysters). You can tag keywords, save and ‘favoritize’ users you like, and build your own reputation/’fame’ through ratings and comments.

2. Buddy Bet

Betting is fun. Especially amongst friends, over utterly ridiculous situations. This app allows you to create your own betting ‘events’ and invite friends to join in. Users choose from a library of betting frameworks (from the traditional 50/50 scenario/two-possible outcomes to intricate betting competitions with multiple stages) assign your own rewards and punishments, and enable/disable editing capabilities to ‘up-the-ante’ along the way.

3. Pulse Game

Using a technology similar to Cardiograph, the idea is to have a game where people use their hear rate to interact with others. Players will download the app, select an avatar and fight their friends. Perhaps the game dynamic could be something as the Pokemon Game; when attacking their Avatars can level up and when fight their attacks would be linked to their users pulse. The idea for the game is to create a dynamic that is related to the physicality of the users.

 

Morgan & Mauricio

Dear future teammate

Hi what’s up class,

Just curious if there is anyone out there still don’t have a teammate yet. I was initially planning to pair up with Yong but seems like he has some kind of complicated situation that he might not be able to attend the class anymore. So if there is anyone without a teammate, please shout out to me or email me at litchirhythm at gmail dot com.

See you all on Monday,
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Sarah & Ritika: App Ideas for final project

1/ Time Capsule.

We usually enter a status on Facebook or a tweet on twitter and never look at it again. This app makes you look at such forgotten messages/posts and brings them back to your feed.Record what you do everyday in a couple of lines, like a twitter post or Facebook status. The app then picks out your messages every day from the last few months/years, refreshing your memory of what your thoughts were or what you were doing months back on the same date. So on the 20th of a month you enter a message/post and you also get (in your feed) to see your posts on the 20th of all previous months. Once you enter a post you can’t look at it again until the next month.

2/ Book/Movie pinterest

A lot of times we have troubles figuring out what book to read next or what movie to watch based on our likes and dislikes. This app helps you make a collection of books & movies that you are interested in, helps you search for places where you can find this media (online or physical stores). Follow people and their collections, what they are reading/watching. Give reviews to books and movies. Browsing through popular and new favorite books and movies could be one of the main features of the application that helps you look for stuff that you are interested in. Also including different categories, genres and other filter options.

3/ Outfit Suggester

It is always a trouble deciding what to wear every single day after your shower. Everyone wastes at least 10 minutes deciding what to wear. Maybe we should have an app for that. An app that has all your clothes saved digitally, or you can take pictures and add your clothes in your account. It randomly creates an outfit for you for the day. Putting together combinations of bottoms, tops, outerwear, shoes etc based also on the the weather outside. The app will also ask  you if that outfit worked out for you today and you can rate the outfit. This way the app gets smarter and suggests outfits that you like and also based on the weather outside.

Time Capsule calendar The time capsule

Weekly App: Pad Mapper

 

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I’ve been recently contemplating a move. So say you’re in a neighborhood you really like, and the end of your lease is coming up. Fire up PadMapper, and you can see the rental listings all around you! Whether that be within NYC or some where else, I’ve found Pad Mapper extremely helpful. It’s interface is nothing original and that is great because there is no learning curve to using this app. It barrows elements from maps and other web elements to create a easy and simple searching experience.

Yahoo Weather App – app of the day

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This app makes Apple’s native ios weather app look really sad.  Yahoo’s weather app is absolutely stunning, I honestly can’t stop looking at it.  The landing page consists of gorgeous high res images of NYC pulled dynamically from flickr, with the temperature highs and lows displayed in beautiful type along the bottom.  Scroll down for the forecast clearly laid out with clean outlines, scroll down some more for a detailed view of today’s weather, maps, precipitation, wind pressure as illustrated by moving windmills, and the sun and moon rising and setting times.  Changing locations is super easy, just the push of a button.  In 2 minutes this app already displaced the native ios app on my homescreen and I highly doubt I will ever open the default weather app again.  If you are not already convinced to download this app, the icing on the cake is that it is free. 🙂