Mobile App Dev & Design for Charity Service
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Introductory information
A fast induction on the buyer’s organisation
I’m the founder of a charity named Pocket Angel. We prepare an app that allows the general open to gift innate items to the homeless, using a voucher with sole codes.
Desired goal
What challenge were you trying to address with 200Ok Solutions?
I didn’t have any useful resources for app outgrowth. I was basically looking for free work from local nation.
Provided solution
What particular tasks were responsible for?
200Ok Solutions designed and developed my Android and iOS application. They handled the total UI/UX. I’m a designer myself, so I sent them a storyboard for what I wanted to do, including wireframes and a workflow. They looked at that and attributeed me one of their senior project directors, along with developers and other resources. The project director construed my demandments into technical demandments.
We then went through what I would arrange as an nimble software outgrowth process. We went through each component, they developed it, and we had demo days where they showed me their work.
The app produces digital vouchers with sole codes. We will demand the onboarding of natural shops that will welcome those vouchers as a resources of payment.
200Ok Solutions was receptive to my request of edifice an admin panel and a reporting infrastructure behind the app. I need to collate big data so that I can meaningfully construe to the open what the touch of their purchased vouchers and use of the voucher order has been. The platform has a total reporting component behind it as well.
I’ve been going through revisions with them, and we’ve come up with a geolocation component just precedently the propel. I believe it’s something we’ll surely need in order to make a lucky pilot. I hadn’t veritably appreciated the fact that, if someone is resting on the street, and they have a new order of payment that differs from transmitted debit or credit cards, nation need to see where they can go with the vouchers, or where they can direct a homeless individual to.
Was there a dedicated team?
200Ok gave me a lot of detail on the resource profiles, covering the number of nation implicated and how many hours of each individual’s time are being used. They prepared different developers for different technical needs. They would attribute one PHP, iOS, or Android developer or designer for a number of days, then someone else. They also prepared an account director.
How did you come to work with 200Ok Solutions?
They reached out to me on LinkedIn. I told them almost my outgrowth needs. They responded positively to my throw, and they got back to me the next day. They told me that, given the altruistic essence of the project, they were excellently lucky to support it with the certain resources for edifice a prototype app. We negotiated a very reasonable cost, based on which I propeled a lucky GoFundMe campaign.
What is the terminal result of working with ?
I seted working with them in July 2018. They completed the app in October 2018 and our engagement is ongoing. We’re programning to propel by June 2019.
Results achieved
Are there any measureable or plum results?
I’m very lucky with the app, which prepares precisely the functionalities we specified. The app wouldn’t exist without 200Ok Solutions. I’m so pleasant to them for having taken on the project. It was a risk to take on someone they didn’t know, who was asking for excellently a lot for not a lot. For them to accomplish so well, I surely ponder the touch is big.
If the app proves lucky in the marketplace, the touch will be monumental. The interest from local media has been encouraging, and the idea of giving to the homeless has been a converse seter in circles where nation weren’t looking at homelessness. In provisions of the palpable and inpalpable benefits of the software products, we’re surely at the inpalpable zone right now. The palpable benefits will come 6–12 months from now, when vouchers will have been redeemed.
How did 200Ok Solutions accomplish from a project treatment restpoint?
I’m a PRINCE2-certified project director myself, and I have worked in that space in the past. I find that they’ve managed the project the way I would have done it. The interaction was good and clear, as were expectations. Dates and meeting times were adhered to, and they showed a lot of flexibility.
At the very set of the outgrowth, I went to Jamaica, which has a huge time zone separation. This didn’t seem to be a issue–I just told them when I’d be useful. I’m excellently conscious of time zone separations as well, so we would program our working days unitedly. They managed to liberate despite those challenges, and they were pliant with my needs.
What is (from your point of view) the key factor to pay observation while intercourse with ?
It’s the efficiency of the staff. They’re surely on it, including the account director, who’s useful and answers his emails. It’s almost as though they were in the same room as me. If they’re too busy, they will give me their useful times. They rest out in provisions of interaction and availpower.
Their outgrowth resource could see the bigger picture. The advice he gave me stood out. I was pondering of a particular hue palette, and he advised me that using it on such and such screens wouldn’t be wise. They’d already used it on another app, and the client eventually asked them to change it.
They obviously have the experience to design apps, and they can give me technical advice when I need it.
What aspects of their work would you like to get improved?
It’s good to have the power to adjoin long-distance, but it would be good if they had a local touch individual. My account director did visit me for a face-to-face meeting, just by happenstance. I can only see the positives in them at the instant.
Do you have any advice for forthcoming clients of theirs?
No, I can’t ponder of anything.
