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There should definately be an APP for that…

February 26, 2010 at 5:48 pm (Uncategorized)

It literally took me a week to decide what I wanted to create for my design an app project in my social media class. I asked friends and searched the web but to no avail did I find what I was looking for. Then this morning when I had to roll out of bed at 8:00 a.m. on my friday morning off to schedule interviews for my upcoming news articles at the University Star I realized something: THIS SUCKS.

As a result I began working on an app that is will be known as “The scheduler for Journalists.” It will also serve the purpose of not having to deal with administrative assistants when trying to schedule an important interview.

Here is a rough sketch of the face of the app:

The idea is that every person in a single persons database links their monthly schedules. A reporter can then just open the app, search for the interviewees, and simply choose and date and time to schedule the interview. The first page of the app also allows the user to choose dates and time they are available so only times they can interview will come up on the interviewees calendar. The ability to schedule these interviews without spending twenty minutes on the phone explaining why you need to meet with someone for an interview leaves time for oh I don’t know, other interviews and actually WRITING THE STORIES. So needless to say, an app that allows a reporter to schedule appointments within a database would make the exhausting world of reporting so much easier.