Week 15 Day 5

Today I worked on improving the powerpoint slides, and adding music into it. Other than that, I have also realised in certain project demostrations, people tend to make a slideshow with its own transition timing to bring the story to people in a way similar to watching a movie.

I researched on how to do this in Mac's Keynote (macintosh version of powerpoint), and managed to succeed in making it with the help of my Collegue, victor.

We rehearsed a few times, corrected each other about common presentation mistakes, and ensured similar mistakes are not made again before calling it a day.

Overall, we are now ready for the presentation, and confident about it than the previous one.

=======Reflection=======

In a blink of an eye, the first working week of 2010 has passed. Through the numerous preparation and rehearsal for the Holotouch Project, it has made me realised the importance of not only being able to make a good application, but also impressing the end users on the project. A good application that fails to impress users will mean it will lose out to similar products, and hence causing developers to have difficulty selling it around.

One of the software application that have impressed me most in terms of its marketing is Eset Smart Security. The developers not only focus on developing a great antivirus, but also on animation, creating a nice looking robot avatar, and also on TV commercials.

I know of many people who have purchased the product and benefitted greatly from it, just through its impressive advertisements, which other brands of antivirus failed at.

Hence, the ability to impress consumers (and get them excited) on the software is important.