Colours

http://99designs.com/designer-blog/2011/09/08/how-color-impacts-emotions-and-behaviors/

http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/colors/soothing-healing-paint-colors-0612#slide-1

More whiteboards!

Stickmen

For the dossier.

Whiteboard Stuff

Aesthetic insperation

This is a interesting way to sum up our concept.


http://static.simpledesktops.com/uploads/desktops/2014/01/08/Orbit.png.625x385_q100.png

Study app inspiration

Several different study and organisation apps for students:

Timetable

An approximate timetable that can/will be subject to heavy modification in the future/after presentation. 

Week 1:
-Picking a brief

Week 2:
-Finding our teams
-Discovery period, learning the brief
-"Beware of the Dog" is founded
-Team building and establishment

Week 3:
-Tackling the initial concept
-First client meeting
-Brainstorming and creating an ideas chart for the early app
-Setting app parameters

Week 4:
-Brainstorming the app processes and features
-Identifying basic problems and profiling users
-Second client meeting, learning about Realme and Studylink from their perspective as developers

Week 5:
-Refining the app idea
-Conceting layout and wireframe for the app, setting out features
-Short one-on-one client meeting
-early preparation for presentation
-Layouts for dossier

Week 6:
-Write-ups and preparation for interim presentation
-Product S.W.O.T.
-Critical analysis

[Study Break] Week 1:
-Interim presentation
-Critique and feedback
-Taking the next step, figuring out direction

[Study Break] Week 2:
-Basic wire framing for practical app
-Trial app
-Client meeting

Week 7:
- Market research
-Trial app
-Client Meeting
-reconstruction and further testing

Week 8:
- Layouts and feature design
-Wireframing
-refine market research
-aesthetic direction

Week 9:
-Brainstorming system ID, identifying design issues
-Focus testing
-Media and promotion?
-Future proofing?
-Aesthetic direction

Week 10:
-App reviewing, working through layout
-Aesthetic direction
-logos and marketing

Week 11:
-Focus testing
-Aesthetic direction
-Logos and marketing
-Prep meetings for presentation ideas

Week 12:
-Preparation for final presentation, final dossier
-Tweaking, fixes, polishing app demo
-Focus testing finals
-Collaborating research
-Future proofing?

Week 13:
-Hand-in, presentation
-Party???

Beyond week 13, the future:
-Taking the app into the real world

Client concept

This is the low-fy version that David created depicting the use of Studylink now and the potential ease of the app / responsive website.

http://vimeo.com/103216203

University App Inspiration

This is pretty neat.
Really clean design and looks very simple to use:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/15859829/shortcut-university-app-concept

Studylink: A History (and research into the ongoing process.)

There's a surprising amount of information about Studylink online, which is a service we're trying to keep in consideration when setting up the Lifehub app.

A lot of history can be sourced from this fascinating article here: http://www.critic.co.nz/features/article/1925/the-birth-of-student-loans

But here it is in brief: Studylink NZ is approximately twenty-two years old this year, having been started in 1992. It was rather quickly set up after in 1989 the Labour government introduced universal university tuition fees for students, bumping them up nearly 1000% in the next two  years before allowing universities to set their own tuition costs in 1991. The initial student loan scheme that rose to deal with this included an interest rate of 7%.

Keeping an up-to-date site to keep borrowers aware of their loan information by comparison is still relatively new.

Studylink currently is run as a part of the Ministry of Social Development, and a statement on this years Studylink performance can be found here: https://www.national.org.nz/news/news/media-releases/detail/2014/04/15/minister-pleased-with-successful-studylink-peak-season

Another very interesting read- I know it's Reddit, but there's someone who was a former employee working for Studylink answering questions and talking about the system here: http://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1a9qlg/

At one point he states that

"Best advice is to get it scanned into a system called "VRetrieve" at a local WINZ office, the StudyLink Call Center can access it within 20 minutes of it being scanned."

Perhaps figuring out how this VRetrieve system works and can be incorporated might help us with figuring out how the system can make the process easier for students rather than a repeat of Studylinks somewhat less-than-functional online process.


Other interesting web sources:

http://www.privacy.org.nz/information-sharing/operating-matching-programmes/ministry-of-education-msd-studylink-results-of-study-programme/
http://studylink.govt.nz/about-studylink/statistics/index.html

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/5294640/Fraudster-ran-Studylink-scam-from-prison

Researching other Life-focused apps

Some apps that also focus on making life easier. We could take ideas/layout ideas from them.

Also some quick notes I jotted down

Whiteboard/wire framing/selfie

Here's the pictures from the whiteboard and the wire framing and also Aarons selfie haha.

Notes and ideas

Some scanned notes from thursday, as well as an initial doodle idea for an app setup. Icons represent business, finance, university/education, personal, mail and organizer. 

UI Inspiration

Found a bunch of Interfaces that I found both inspiring and relevant to the circular look we were brainstorming around!