The document describes the iRemember app, which was created to help creative professionals easily record and organize their ideas and tasks. It discusses the problems its target users face with existing note-taking methods. It then provides examples of notes taken before and after applying its hash tag sorting algorithm solution. Finally, it outlines the product backlog and milestones for the minimum viable product, including implementing basic posting and sorting functionality as well as a login system.

1. iRemember App
EECS 441
Professor Elliot Soloway
Fall 2014
Javier Arreguin
Nicholas Babcock
Jacob Korona
Robert Wang

2. Problem
— Our target client is the creative professional
— Ideas are like the wind, if one doesn’t write them
down, they go away.

3. Problem (cont.)
Before
• Cancel dental insurance [3:20pm]
• Take winter jacket for dry cleaning [3:20pm]
• Technology is only important in so far as how it helps people
[3:21pm]
• Remember to bring water bottle for yoga [4:20pm]
• Enhance human cognitive load [4:22pm]
• Remember to wash running clothes [4:22pm]
• Itchy throat [5:10pm]
• Runny rose [10:01pm]
New
Old

4. Problem (cont.)
Before
#TD Cancel dental insurance [3:20pm]
#TD Take winter jacket for dry cleaning [3:20pm]
#HCI Technology is only important in so far as how it helps people
[3:21pm]
#Mistakes Remember to bring water bottle for yoga [4:20pm]
#HCI Enhance human cognitive load [4:22pm]
#Mistakes Remember to wash running clothes [4:22pm]
#Symptom Itchy throat [5:10pm]
#Symptom Runny rose [10:01pm]
New
Old

5. Solution: Hash tag sorting algorithm
After
#HCI Technology is only important in
so far as how it helps people [3:21pm]
#HCI Enhance human cognitive load
[4:22pm]
#Mistakes Remember to bring water
bottle for yoga [4:20pm]
#Mistakes Remember to wash
running clothes [4:22pm]
#TD Call to cancel dental insurance
[3:20pm]
#TD Take winter jacket for dry
cleaning [3:20pm]
#Symptoms Itchy throat [5:10pm]
#Symptoms Runny rose [10:01pm]

6. Comparative Analysis
iRemember Twitter Pen & Paper Outlook
Access control
(Public, Private,
Circles)
✔ ✔
Memory aid ✔ ✔ ✔
Archiving ✔ ✔ ✔* ✔
Cross-platform ✔ ✔
Search/Sort ✔ ✔

7. Product Backlog (Milestones)
— Web sever set up
— Implement posts (Hash tags, time stamps, posting)
— Implement search
— Dashboard setup
— Create login system
— System testing
— Collect research on target audience

8. MVP 1.0