The design idea

The employee can fill in insights about their experience during work into an app. The input will be in summery. If the filled-in insights are negative, the machine will display red. If the input of the app is mostly positive, the machine will display green. Every input in-between will end into an orange output of the machine.

The main idea of the project is to create the app and let employees share their working experience and with it feel more involved within the company, the machine can give a visual representation of the working experience within the company. All the input of the employees will be put into an overview for the designated department to see. For example: If mechanics fill this in, the supervisors of the mechanics or a person who is appointed to gather employee information will get a notification of the submission. The submission will be sent to the department that can do something with the given insight. If the insight doesn’t apply to the department, according to the department, it could always be passed on the someone else within the company.

The department can process the insight by letting the employee know the issue is something noted for the long term, that they are prioritising the problem and solving it within a given time-period or simply saying they are dealing with it. The insight can also be seen as something to accept, or too hard/ impossible to handle, this should be communicated. By closing an insight, the issue expected to be solved (according to the department). In order for the employee to find the problem solved, the employee can also close the insight.

More open insights mean the machine will turn red, this red display can be lower by doing one of two things:

1. Lower the amount of open insights by solving the issues;

2. Changing standards: The amount of open insights that will indicate a red, orange or green light signal.

Note!

In order for the app to be implemented into an organisation. There needs to be an admin account for the company. In this project the focus lays on the employee part.

The progress of the project can be seen in Trello.

Already gathered information

I summarised the relevant information that I already gathered. The app design I made in the ‘design of mobile apps’ course is a good starting point. I made a design of the app, did some research on existing tools and substantiate the urgency. The design choices are based on other programs and methods who help companies get their employees more involved within the company.

Intranet –> fills the function of keeping everyone up-to-date but does not support feedback from employees.

Yammer –> fills function of keeping everyone up to date and support feedback from employees.

Suggestion box –> Feedback by topic.

Already made layouts for the app

Milestones for the project

Ideate on the subject and find out if the problem is actual an ‘problem’.

• Getter important information from the previous design of the app;

• Translate the already made designs and information into a functional demand list so the new app can be build out of this demand list.

Make the app  –>  Tutorials for programming part (YouTube);

• Find a programming tool;

• Make a login screen with a Hotmail and password;

• Make a home screen;

• Make the submission of insights with overview (let users choose which department is responsible);

• Make the overview of topics and the option to make new topics;

• Insert an agenda with topics to put in;

• Test the app with at least five persons.

Make the app send a Bluetooth signal to communicate with a machine. This machine expects an amount of open and closed submissions;

Make the receiving machine –> Ask Harry for the Bluetooth receiver and the display of the received info;

• Make at least three designs for the machine à with connected a Bluetooth receiver and a way of displaying.

IDEA: The machine can have a counter which displays the amount of submissions. The counter can be in the shape of a vertical rectangle (battery like). The amount of LED’s that are on will display the amount of solved submissions in comparison with unsolved submissions. When a certain degree of unsolved submissions is reached, the counter turns red.

5. Let the app interact with the receiving machine (preferably via a mobile).

Time spend for start app design: 7,5 hours

• Time spend for introduction + setup milestones: 2 hours
• Time spend for logo: 0,5 hour
• Time spend for setting up WordPress and Trello (including tutorials): 2 hours
• Time spend for watching youtube, reading about the importance of the subject: 3 hours oa: https://youtu.be/cCdu67s_C5E https://youtu.be/HRwTnFO43zw