Get Help

Wow I didn't know such an app existed? I totally agree with the problem they envisioned. We may have hundred(s) of friends but we won't know who to look for when we need help. Neither do we know when a friend is in particular need of help on a certain issue. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

I thought the screenshots of the initial version looked pretty decent. It was quite a bunch to see, but I felt that there weren't any really unnecessary stuff. There were a lot of functionalities implemented which is pretty cool. As for user experience, I like how easy it is for a user to create a new project request. What could have been done perhaps was to separate the process into stages so that the input fields wouldn't be so cluttered. Otherwise, the design was okay, if not perhaps needed some improvement.

One of the functionalities was to let users choose the audience for the request. The implementation would have been difficult, and the developers must have took a great deal of time in getting it to perfection.

Its definitely needed and they have done a good job implementing it. However sometimes too much functionalities might not really mean a good thing. People like choices, but dislike choices. Especially when the choices are not self explanatory. Like: what is "Post to all my friends" and yet, "No! show only reliable people" ? probably a glitch lol.

I guess the way it works is that it sends a feed to your friends' walls when you push a request. That would be a problem because its hard to monitor walls sometimes and important information would easily slip us by when we do not pay attention at the particular moment. So i guess the developers decided to implement SMS feeds, but wouldn't that turn out too costly?

Perhaps a really minor issue would be the alignment of the input fields. I believe the improved version would have been much more appealing.

Overall, i feel the UI was the one that pulled the score down. Too much words, and the uneven sizes of words and icons makes it look rather unappealing. The idea behind the app was really great and could have brought in so much more social interaction. But even good ideas might not work out. It seems nowadays that its either of the 2: it snowballs and you can't stop it even if u want to, or it never gets enough popularity ever.