#creatingapps

When I heard about the possibility to join an assignment to learn to build apps I immediately subscribed to it. Personally I think that the ability to create apps is a skill every modern designer should have. With the internet of things coming up (where every object -from your energy meter to your coffee machine- is connected to the internet and controlled with smartphones etc). Even though I knew that most of the lessons would be android based, I still subscribed (I have a mac and Iphone), because I think that I't important for a designer to be able to work with different platforms. 

During the introduction class, it became clear to me that the explanations were only made for windows computers, and that Installing the software already caused a lot of problems that the teacher couldn't quite solve for me. Next to that I was told that it would be kind of a problem that I didn't have an android phone. In the end, because have had trouble before in a programming class where stuff didn't work on my computer I decided that I should quit the assignment and try to make an IOS app as an SDL activity. 

Maybe We Need to Create Our Own Company, Create Our Own Apps

WHAT: Incubator. I love reading and learning about the new products coming out for the aging population, but my question still is: Who are these companies hiring? My focus is on job creation for older women. And what are these companies learning from the focus groups? Are they developing any apps that are any FUN? Again, I don’t know how to do this, so I would like to find the women who do.

WHY: We’ve got some great ideas, and once we learn to write code, watch out! Again, from Hilary Mason, “I do think there’s an opportunity in older women-created products, just because most young techies aren’t thinking about this market (and few are women of any age).” And from Mary Matthews of Memrica.com, “Getting women involved as app testers would boost their confidence and show that their views can be commercially valuable.”

WHERE: East Bay / SF Bay for starters

HOW: Group members as focus group and as coders and developers, as we get to that point in what we are able to do.