So I’ve been quiet for the last few weeks, and that’s because I’ve been working pretty hard on our Studio 3 project, the New Intelligence App. I had assumed the role of programmer lead during this time, and these posts will be about the 10 or so weeks of development.

Our Studio class was given the task of making a serious app for a Canberra based company called New Intelligence. New Intelligence are a company that teach advanced interview techniques and methods for getting information from people. Not in a Guantanamo Bay style extraction, but by asking the right things in the right order. They have clients including Australian Federal Police, customs, company recruiters, etc.

I’ll be doing a series of posts about how the last 10 or so weeks of development have gone, then I’ll do a post mortem on the project.

So the goal of this project was to create a serious app that would help people attending training courses hosted by New Intelligence retain and practice the information they would learn.

The project started with our studio class attending the 3 day training course they host. This course was condensed into two days, due to the fact we aren’t actually clients of New Intelligence, so we could skip over things like “What kind of challenges have you had in your workplace interviews” and career specific things like that. Our reason for attending the seminar was to get an idea of what skills people were learning so that we could start getting an idea of what we would need to create.

So in short, the seminar was boring as fuck, though we had a good idea of the concepts we needed to reinforce through our app. Over the next few days we decided on using the PROSPECT model to base our app around.

I’ll be explaining what this is in the next post.