Welcome

Right now the challenge for some people is finding something to do. Some of the groups are so large that it is impossible to keep everyone on the same task. I have moved over to sort of a HR/UX role since I had left to do user research and fell out of the loop. This is a very easy thing to do if you are gone for more than a few minutes since things move so quickly.

Right now we have a concept, logo and now we are working on site maps, design and development.

Design and User Experience are working together pretty well.

Last night the user experience team decided to concentrate on the small promoter. We came up with a scenario of Dave wanting to promote his band Captain Underpants and the Seafish. We are trying to make this different from other similar applications since we are concentrating on the promoter and not the person looking for events. We will probably be looking at interfaces for people who want to go to events later.

Our concept is event a central events database that will feed other sites and the primary place for finding events in Bloomington. The user experience team has retreated to the Informatics building to discuss the design of the pages and figure out details. We are somewhat unsure of the exact details since business development is not really sure of how everything should go.

I think we are going to hack on this for a few hours and the regroup tomorrow morning.

The process has been a little frustrating since we have had to move so fast but it will be interesting to see what comes out of it all.

This weekend I am trying out the Bloomington startup weekend. We are going to try and develop a company in one weekend. I am signed up as part of the user experience team and I might drift over to design a bit depending on what we end up doing. It should be an interesting weekend. I am looking forward to the presentations of the concepts tonight. I have seen a few interesting concepts on the ning group.

I'll try blog about it more as the weekend goes on.