Researching All Week

This week the interns continue working on the dog park app project we started last week. Now that we have more insight into how to work this project from start to finish, we are thinking about all of the steps and processes we need to go through. Yesterday we started looking for competitor and/or similar websites and apps to compare and contrast to the features we want to emulate and also stray from. Then we needed to identify the different features and tools available on these platforms in order to organize them in a spreadsheet. Today I am spending my time organizing the website features into spreadsheets. This is time-consuming as I need to go through the websites and figure out where everything leads and also take notes on how things work. Tomorrow Taf and Matt are back in the office so we can continue to collaborate on doing this research to progress in this project.

Kayleigh Tansey
PR Intern

Dog Park Continued

This morning when I got into the office I continued to work on the dog park project. I reviewed what we had done last week and tried to fill in some blanks that we had missed. When Taf got here in the afternoon we talked about what our next step should be. Not long after that Ron called us in for a meeting and gave us a little more direction. My workday is almost over but I will continue my research when I get here in the morning.

Matt Langill

Graphic Design Intern 

Dog Park research

Today is the 3rd day of our dog park project and we are doing a good job with getting things done and being up to date. Earlier today, Matt and I along with Ron were checking out some dog park webpages to see what we can come up with. Along with that, starting tomorrow, we will be working on ways to promote this project once it's finished. Apart from them, we are researching a bit more on how dog park websites and for park apps are similar and different from one another, and what do they feature. This is going to be an awesome, fun, and challenging project! Glad I'm a part of this!

Taf
P.R. Intern

Today when I get into the office I picked up where Kayleigh left off yesterday with our research about the new dog park app. She got a lot accomplished yesterday so I didn’t have much to research this morning. I just had a few questions and ideas to bounce off of her, luckily she got into the office not to long after me. When she got here we talked about the research she had done and how we would could improve our list. We changed a couple things and wrote down questions and ideas we had for Ron. When Taf got here we brought him up to speed on everything and then Ron called us into his office for a meeting. In the meeting we set some goals as to where we think we should be at certain dates. We will now spend the rest of the day continuing to move forward with this project and trying to meet our goals.

Matt Langill

Graphic Design Intern

This week I, along with Matt and Kayleigh have been assigned to work on a dog park project with a deadline of 29 days. It will be tough, challenging and fun. We have done the research we needed to create the rest, now we are working on sorting out what needs to come first and what will be used last on the site/app. This is day 2 of the project, and we will be starting to design the look of  the site/app next week.

Taf

The start of a new project

Yesterday I spent most of my day doing article summaries for both bullying and drunk driving to be used on the blog. That took up most of my day until all of the interns had a group meeting with Ron to get a new assignment to work towards a project. This project is centered around an idea for a new app that will be centered around dog parks, which is inspired by the office's black lab mascot Benny. Taf had already learned a little bit about this idea a few weeks ago and did some initial research on similar apps already out there. Today I spent my time reading his notes, looking at all the similar apps, critiquing them, and reading reviews. From there, I brainstormed the type of features we could add to the ones Ron already gave us in the meeting and outlined specifics about each feature. I also wrote down some additional ideas that we could possibly incorporate into the app, as well as some design elements. I'm really looking forward to seeing this project through and have been writing down notes even outside the office of ideas that pop into my head or other info to explore. Tomorrow the other interns are in the office so we can sit down and discuss what we have  so far and go from there.

Kayleigh Tansey
PR Intern

This morning when I got to the office, I got right to work on some more crowd funding research. I did this for a few hours but right before lunch Laura gave me a new assignment. This assignment was to start coming up with a few ideas for the cover of Jayna’s new cd. So far I have a few different covers in the works and will continue working on them until the end of the day. Taking a break from research and doing some design was a nice change of pace and a good way to end the week.

Matt Langill

Graphic Design Intern