Last week was totally different from any other week this summer. That´s because we concentrated our energy to another field of media: video production.

It´s really hard to come up with an interesting blog entry every week about our Local Buddy project because everything´s going just smoothly. During a normal week we have 1-3 meetings in one of the meeting rooms and then we sit around our weirdly shaped work station and argue about little details concerning the project. The rest of the time we just work.

 We finally completed our four weeks of brainstorming and the results can be seen in numerous flip chart papers with lots of ideas - some great and some not that good. Either way, now we have a lot of material to work with and to narrow down to find the essential information.

Last weeks tuesday was important day for our team - we had the third meeting with our client Nokia and our team "supervisor" Joonas. We went through the new demo and some points that we needed advice with.

Meeting with Nokia, brainstorming, research and new ideas - That pretty much sums up the last week.

Tuesdays Nokia lab day went well. Timo P. took care of the pitching like professional and convinced the professors with our brilliant ideas. It´s nice that we have good info material of our project - powerpoint, brouchure, cool pictures and even a small demo for the 5800. That is what makes this project so concrete and real. We can truly see the results of our months work

The week started with designing a presentation and a brouchure for the tuesdays Nokia Lab day. The idea was to show the Nokia people and professors what our projects are all about. Tuesday started out well; People were truly intersted in all of our projects and said that they are innovative and fresh.

First week with the new concept idea.

It felt like we had reached the next level; We had upgraded our good ideas and discarded the bad ones. The major change to the earlier concept is "the radar view" which replaces the nowadays popular map. We want to give user the freedom to enjoy its surroundings and not to stare at the map all the time.

It´s funny to think that our project started just two weeks ago, because it feels that we´ve been doing this at least a month or so. We have gone a long way in just 14 days!

We´re on the right track

During our last Tuesday brainstorming, we decided to specify our project focus. From now on we´re going to concentrate on research, so that we know what we are dealing with and how we can make the most out of our project. We need to see the big picture.