Connekt is an iPhone app that aims to simplify users' lives and help them connect with more people. It includes features like Peopl to add contacts and suggest connections based on skills/needs, Calendr for scheduling, Remindr to set and track tasks, and analytics to track follow-through on commitments. The app could be customized for different professional groups. Initial user feedback was very positive, with most agreeing they would purchase the app. The target market includes entrepreneurs, young professionals, and active networkers who could benefit from and help promote the app.

1. Connekt
An iphone application that simplifies your life and helps you connect
with more people.

2. The App Experience
in five steps...

3. The Landing Page...

4. Peopl.
The Peopl button is what you press when
you meet new people.

5. Peopl.
Peopl is just like any other address book
except that it lets you add two interesting
bits of information about a contact.
HOW THEY HELP PEOPLE
and
WHAT THEY NEED HELP WITH
You can then tag these entries according to
their relevant skills.

6. Peopl.
When you tag an entry with relevant
skills (and needs) the app finds matches
in your database and makes a
suggestion.
For example, if you tag one entry with
‘Cooking’ (under how they help people)
and ‘Marketing’ (under what they need
help with) and then find someone in
marketing (who wants to learn how to
cook) the app will suggest you connect
them.

7. Calendr.
The Calendr button is what you press when
you want to know what you’re supposed to
be doing.

8. Calendr.
Calendr has a simple week-view mode...
...and a continuous
year-view mode so that
you can see the whole
year in one go.You can
pinch the calendar to
zoom in and out of any
part you want.

9. Remindr.
The Remindr button is what you press
whenever you have something new to do.
When you press the button you go to a ‘My
Word’ list, but when you flip the phone it
becomes a Task Clock.

10. The ‘My Word’ List
Every time
you tell some
one you are
going to do
something for
them you
make a note
of it on your
‘My Word’ list.
If a task is
complicated
you can
break it
down into a
series of
action
points by
pinching on
the task.

11. The Task Clock
The coloured caps correspond your
daily tasks. The closer a task is to the
center the higher its priority. The
hand takes 24 hours to complete
one rotation and it drags the caps
along as it goes.
Whenever the hand comes in contact with a
task your phone vibrates. If it starts dragging
more than three tasks at once it vibrating
more and more frequently to remind you
that you are putting things off.

12. Double Tapping the landing
page also allows you to
answer two simple questions...
Are you sticking to your word? Are you following through?
The app plots the number of new
The app graphs the discrepancy people you meet in a week/month
between the number of people and graphs it in relation to the
you give your word to and the number of contacts you actually
number of things you actually follow up on. The app knows this
follow through with. It also because it tracks all the calls,
measures the average time you text messages and emails activity
take to get something done and associated with a contact. Every
tells you if you are improving or week/month the app reminds you
getting worse. to get in touch with the five
people you havn’t touched base
with in the longest.

13. Connekt allows you to take pictures of
business cards and record people’s
details through the microphone. The
details are then flagged in the next
days task clock so that you can feed
them in properly. This just reduces the
amount of time you have to fiddle with
your phone at a social event.
If two people are on Connekt then
they don’t have to waste time
swapping details, all they have to do
is turn connekt on and bring their
phones close together (personally I
think the phones should actually have
to touch, as in connect).
Connekt has a dynamic relation with
other productivity apps. It functions
as a stand alone application and it can
import data and export data to/from
the apps you already use (iCal,
outlook, Address book, iphone
Reminders, etc) so you only have to
use it when you want to.

14. Connekt
An iphone application that simplifies your life and helps you connect
with more people.

15. Financial Viability of the
App
If the app turns out to be financially successful then
As soon as I read about the competition started
it can be customized for different kinds of tribes.
asking people what they did and didn’t like about
For example, it could easily be geared towards
their iphones and what they could do with them.
people who actively network and engage in
networking events (NETWORKr: The bluetooth of
I showed this presentation to 11 strangers and
networking) or for active volunteers and social
everyone one of my friends that uses an iphone.
entrepreneurs (HELPr), for creative professional
Everyone said they would buy it except for one
(DESIGNr), etc.
stranger.
The people with the most to benefit from the app are
The app design is based on existing apps or
entrepreneurs, young people starting out in
concepts (such as the task clock) that have been
business and start-ups, and people who actively
financially successful.
network (such as networking groups, networking
associations and PR agencies).
To help promote the product I would look at
targeting these groups and offering them up to 75%
on commission for every time they recommending
the app to their friends (for a limited time). If they
recommend the app to two people it pays for itself.