Facebook Application: Evaluation and Gestalt

The completion of the project triggered a reflective period, in which a number of personal recommendations and thoughts to ones own self occurred.

Specifically:

• A large amount of time and effort during the early phase was wasted, as a result of not being upfront about each others skills. This was due to working with a friend; if two random students had been placed together to fulfil this project they would of ascertained each others skills and avoided the wastefulness. Next time I undertake a project with a friend I will encourage us to be honest and upfront about the skills we can bring to the project.

• During the design phase of the project we’d decided upon the name of ‘Save the Bush’ and although we had checked other possible names on Facebook for the possibility of an application with the same name. We must have forgotten to check this one and it appears there is another app with the same name. On reflection a written list of tasks to carry out may have stopped this fundamental mistake.

• Although there are a number of applications dealing with George Bush and his time spent as president, I still feel that our app had a feel of uniqueness. By dealing with his current position in the here and now, we had hoped to gain a lot of users. I still believe that if it had been launched just at the right time, it would have been tremulously successful. We underestimated the amount of work needed to produce the amount

• Our decision to create an application based on current affairs didn’t take into account the fact that the subject matter had a short life expectancy. Hence, the time taken to initiate the project, to learn the new Facebook languages and develop the written material, had in fact sealed our projects fate. At the time of its launch it had become irrelevant and yesterdays old news.