Showing posts with label mobile website. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mobile website. Show all posts

Monday, 26 March 2012

Session 13 - Action Planning and Planning Our Launch - 20/3/12

We started off the session with an update of how our website is getting on and what else has been going on:

- We suggested that we should take our own photographs for the recovery position steps. Amy will be the model and Keely and Steph will check that the steps are correct. A photographer will come in next week and teach photography to the rest of the group as well as shooting our photographs.

- Our health copy has been checked by a health professional. We want to get an endorsement that will mean that our health information will be certified and professional.

- We will all attend a meeting with St John's Ambulance about our app to promote it and tell them what it is all about. Amy has volunteered to go along - Date TBC.

- Thinking about the launch - we hope to launch our website during half term. We want to take our app to festivals like Wireless in the summer (6-8 July in Hyde Park). This is too far away for the launch but will be a great opportunity to promote our app.

Other places that we discussed to promote our app is:
- Trafalgar Square
- St Andrew's stall at South West Fest
- Lovebox
- Underage Festival

Everyone has homework to find an event or festival that is on during the next month or so that we can launch our app at.

We discussed our action plan for our app and campaign:
- We have agreed to meet up less frequently - possibly fortnightly from now on.
- Steph, Amy and Keely to approach schools in the local area to run a workshop/assembly to show them our app. (Including Greycoat hospital school).

We went through our smart objectives for our campaign:
- 150 people at Greycoat school (year 10 and 11). Steph to contact her school head to set up a meeting for us all. She will let Keely know how she gets on tomorrow (21/3/12).
- Finish app completely - Everywhere and Jess. We need to finish the health section and sort photographs within 10 days.
- Finish promotional materials - t-shirts - Jess to send the logo and Steph, Keely and Gina to buy and print t-shirts. Keely or Steph to contact graffiti lady to see if they can set up with her to print the t-shirts for our app.
- Find somewhere to launch our app - launch event - everyone will look for an event to launch at by next week.
- Contact Kellogs, Boris, Wireless Festival. We will also contact the lady from Pay Plan to help us to promote our campaign - Keely to follow up and see if we can have a space in their weekly newsletter.
- Meet up again to catch up on progress in two weeks time.

We discussed our evaluation plan:
- Feedback on our app
- Take our app to schools and youth clubs and get them to fill in the app feedback form - if they are just a small group get them to fill in paper feedback/questionnaire.
- We will use Turning Point Tool for bigger groups

We finished up the session all excited about finishing our app and positive about launching it.




Friday, 24 February 2012

Session 11 - Website/Logo Design Feedback And Looking At Promoting Our Campaign - 21/02/12

We started today's session off by giving our feedback on the logo and colour scheme:
- Looks cool, I like it
- Useful apps should be called 'mini cabs and taxis' instead
- It's too green
- Maybe we could use purple when you hover over the words or click on them
- The font looks great
- We should use contrasting colours more than the green as the icons will stand out much better
- W'happen - it's good and makes sense
- It's great that people can put their own information in - good idea and we would also add to it


How will we capture feedback/ measure success?
- We will have a feedback section or page built into the app

Feedback questions:
- Did you find what you were looking for?
- How helpful was the info? (on a scale of 1-5)
- How useful do you think this app will be in helping young people to stay safe? (on a scale of 1-5)

Other things that we may want/need for our campaign:
- A banner for the app
- Turning Point tool to take into schools for feedback - it's easier and fun
- Website counter
- Flyers - to hand out to parents of young people in shops?
- Stickers
- Oyster card holders - for festivals and to hand out at schools
- Google Analytics reports - Everywhere will do for us and show us how
- Header/footer - logos, blurb on the project and contact email

Promoting and advertising our campaign:
- Schools
- Festivals (Underage Festival)
- Banner on other websites
- Cereal boxes - Kellogs?
- Shops/shopping centres - to hand out flyers to parents of young people about our campaign
- BBM broadcast
- Short and fun promo film for our YouTube channel
- Billboards at bus stops?
- Local papers
- Metro, Daily Mail (app of the week), Evening Standard, Live magazine
- Cans of drink

We looked at our working progress app and discussed our feedback:
- Can we seperate Tube Buddy out
- Kabbee and Halo to be included
- It looks amazing
- Trains and underground together
- Cabs and taxis together
- The Blackberry version needs some work
- We want to use the darker (black) colour scheme

We discussed what appeals to our target audience and what websites that we look at:
- SBTV
- Amazon
- Facebook
- Twitter
- YouTube
- Ebay


Thursday, 16 February 2012

Session 10 - PR Plan - 14/2/2012

We all gathered on Valentines day for a romantic talk on different ideas to get out message out there. We looked at a few larger campaigns that worked with the market we're aiming for. How can we get our message out that successfully with less money?

We set up our Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts.



Questions:
What schools do you want to to?
What contacts should you make use of?
Why would somebody use your Facebook?
Who do you want to follow you on Facebook?
What celebrities can help you on Twitter?
Where should you put up posters and how many?

Tips:
Putting up content on Facebook after 8 30pm attracts a wider audience.
Tweet to famous people and they might just RT!
Piggy back on someone else's PR, Offer free tickets from institutions and concerts in return fro promoting their event to your young people.

How do we like the final design?













The final design is quirky and direct enough. We love the green!

The architecture is just what we asked for: enough text and enough pictures and still simple.

Friday, 10 February 2012

Session 9 - Writing The Copy And Thinking About How We Want To Promote Our Mobile Website Campaign - 7/2/12

In today's session we discussed the copy that we wanted to go in each section in more depth and where we want to promote our campaign.

The Health Section
We discussed the questions that we wanted to answer on our website. We need to plan these so that we can research the answers from St John's Ambulance.

These are the questions that we came up with:
- What is the recovery position? When should we use it? (we need the steps)
- How do we do CPR?
- What should you do if you/your friend's drink has been spiked?
- What should you do if you/ your friend's having a bad trip? (drug trip)
- What should you do if you/your friend has a deep cut or is bleeding a lot?
- What should you do if you are at the scene of an accident?
- What should you do if you think somebody has a spinal injury?
- What should you do if you/your friend has a stab wound?
- What should you do if you/your friend is raped?
- How do you stop a nose bleed?
- What should you do if you think that you have concussion?
- What should you do if you think that you have a broken bone?

We suggested that it may be an idea if we make some useful and short videos.

Extra's - Tips
We discussed the tips that we want to have on our mobile website that young people may want/need to know.


- Be alert
- Keep focused
- Keep one headphone out or music at a reasonable level when walking around
- Have a half way point
- Always know your landmarks
- Stay in busy  and well lit places
- Walk with purpose
- Always be on your guard
- Have a safe place to put your valuables
- Always carry some spare change just in case you lose your Oyster card, etc
- Make sure that your phone is well charged
- Bring spare batteries
- Don't follow your friends
- Keep your eyes on your drink or ask someone you trust to mind it
- Don't take unknown drugs
- Always carry condoms with you
- Always tell at least one of your friends where you are
- Tell somewhere that is not going out, where you will be and what time you will be back
- Try to avoid mixing drugs or drinks

Promoting Our Campaign
We discussed where we wanted to take our campaign and what we may want as a promotional tool.
- Schools
- Colleges
- Sixth forms
- Festivals - for more of a mixed audience

We decided that we wanted to create Oyster card holders with business cards inside with information on. This is so that we can promote our campaign and give our target audience something they will use and remember us by when they are on the go.




Monday, 30 January 2012

Session 7 - Planning A Logo And The Copy For Our Website - 24/01/12

We looked at ideas for our logo that the guys from 'Everywhere' had put together. This is some of the feedback on some of the ideas:
- The colours that we like the most are the yellow, purple and blue palette
- Direction text - arrows/directions
- Stencil text is used far to much
- Like the city scape style text
- Don't like chunky fonts

We discussed the two names for the website as 'Smartz' and 'Ask keely'. We decided that we wanted to stick with the name 'Ask keely as it will add a personality to the website.

We talked about the copy for the website:
- Needs to have a face and name
- Encouraging
- Friendly
- Perhaps have a Keely says area
- Use the word 'Measy' (uneasy)

Activity
We all sketched out our ideas for logos and they looked really great.



We discussed the different areas of the website and compiled a more comprehensive list of what it would feature under each heading.

First Aid
- Frank
- A postcode or area hospital finder
- The recovery position steps, CPR and stopping bleeding

These will act as the first steps if somebody is injured on a night out and waiting for an ambulance. We will contact St John's Ambulance to find out if we can use any of these first aid tips/help.

Copy ideas for this section:
- What do do, Where to go and Who to ask.

Travel/Getting Home
- TFL
- LBC radio travel updates
- Tube Buddy app
- Halo/Cab app

Extra Smart
We have decided to merge both the Smartz sections and the Extra sections together to make 'Extra Smart'. This will include:
- Free 02 texts
- 08000mumdad
- Google maps
- And anything else that we want to add as an extra

We filled in feedback forms and will look forward to the next session, which will be working on the next stages of the website.










Thursday, 19 January 2012

Session 6 - Looking At Designs and Layout Ideas For The Mobile Website - 17/01/12

We started off the session discussing how we will bring our website to life.
- Type
- Colours
- Surfaces, etc

We looked through some styles with Everywhere to see what we may want our website to look like or to feature.

- Like the tattoo style images
- Like pink and blue colours
- Drawn elements instead of photographs?
- Don't want it to be too in your face/bright
- Like neon style lettering
- Like purple Nike illustration styles
- Like 3d shapes - bright colours - grey as a background emphasises the bright colours - blue and pink
- Bit simpler
- Purple and blue (cyan)
- Want a character to make it consistent
- Graffiti is a good direction - can work for headers, can draw you in, but not in the main body text
- Can't be to complicated
- Like drips coming from letters
- Purple and yellow
- Black is a bit sinister
- Like subtle ways of referencing objects
- Like neon writing - bit more simplified

Everywhere will put together ideas boards of all the things that we like during this week and show them to us in next weeks session. We are all excited to see these.

We discussed the features that we should have on the website that we haven't already featured.
- Tube map
- Google maps
- An animated speech bubble with 999 in it on each page
- Hospital finder by GPS using postcode/place name

Everywhere put together some layout ideas for us to look through and decide between for each page of our website. We chose which layouts that we preferred and worked individually to design a page each for our website.















Friday, 13 January 2012

Session 5 - Looking At Branding - 10/01/12

We started off today's session by looking at brands that we can distinguish just by their logos alone.

- Red Bull - Red Bull gives you wings
- Mcdonald's - I'm lovin' it
- Nike - Just do it

Branding - A particular product or a characteristic that serves to identify a particular product.

We discussed that it would be difficult to choose what make of a product we wanted without the help of branding. For e.g. Paracetamol - there are so many different makes of it available, so sometimes we need a little help to make our choice.

Next week we will be going back to the agency, Everywhere, to work on our website.

We discussed what our brand values for our website should be:
- Help
- Fun? personality
- Quick
- Simple
- Young

Our website ideas:
- Safety around your area
- Making life more convenient and safe for young people
- If you're stuck
- Maybe have teenage cartoon characters

Audience:
- Young people and us

We discussed other websites and how easy they were to navigate and how good they looked.

We discussed colour options for the website and what colours represent:

Purple:
- Girls -  party
- Young
- Goths
- Cadbury's

Grey:
- Boring
- Executive
- Mercedes
- Dull
- Gloomy
- School uniform

Red:
- Exciting
- Boys and girls
- Alarming
- Danger
- Exciting
- Loud

Green:
- Old people (wee)
- Boring
- Weak
- Environmental
- Jungle

Colours that we want to use:
- Black
- Purple
- Red
- Bright colours - younger




We came up with some ideas for a name for the website:
- Ask keely - most of us liked this name the best
- Smarts are us
- We are smart

We had an idea for a slogan to:
- Smart safety is the key

In teams we discussed the different sections of the website, what goes under each heading and what web links we would use on our site:

- Getting there/home/around - travel, etc.
- My/your health and wellbeing

1. Getting home/getting around
- TFL
- Halo/Cab app
- LBC radio live travel updates

2. Advice/my/you health/wellbeing
- Mayo
- Recovery position and images created by us
- If somebody has taken drugs, first aid basics 

3. Smarts
02 (free sms) 
- How not to pay reverse fees

We looked at what out site has got to have:
- Short/useful information
- Nice colours
- Be eye catching
- Have no downloads

We were all interviewed to see what we thought the project was about and what we hoped to get out of it.

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Session 4 - Visit To Digital Agency - Everywhere - 13/12/11

This session we all went on the mini bus to a digital agency called Everywhere. When we arrived we filled the creative's in on our idea for creating a mobile website.

Our initial idea:



What 'Everywhere' do and a bit about them:
The guys at Everywhere filled us in on what they do and how they came to be. They showed us some examples of other projects that they have worked on, which looked really great.



What Do We Want On Our Website?
We discussed what the main things we wanted on our mobile website was and referred back to our original spider diagram of ideas. We worked on a mind map on a white board and put the components of the website in order of importance.


1. Directions, route planner/buses/trains (TFL) and taxi numbers.
2. Advice, first aid and drugs info (Frank)
3. Area alerts and free online texts (02)
4. Personalisation?


Planning Our Website On Paper
We were all given a sheet where we had to plan in order our mobile website's features. It was really useful as we could see what we wanted clearer and we had support to do this.


A special thank you to Everywhere for sharing their knowledge and supporting us in creating our mobile website.