Saturday
Sep042010
Maritz MPrize Winners Announced
On Monday my team presented our mobile application, MPulse, to the judges of the MPrize competition at the Maritz headquarters in Fenton, MO. I have to say I thought our product looked good and we looked snazzy wearing our matching QR coded shirts. Unfortunately the judges went with one of our competitors.
I am more than a little disappointed. I have been working with the 5 members of my team on this project for the past 6 months. Thanks to the hard work of my teamates we put together an application that could be used right away in the marketplace. The judges did mention that they liked our product and wanted to incorporate some of our features into the winning product.
Overall it was a good experience and it was fun to see an idea turned into an actual working product. I want to thank my team Silvana, Jon, Eric, Don and Rob for all the hard work they put into MPulse. We learned a ton and I'm sure the knowledge we gained from putting this together will pay off. Take a look at the overview video and a couple of Google commercials I put together for the presentation.
MPulse Overview (Artwork by Jon Bullok)
Ad: QR Codes + Mpulse = The Future
Ad: How to Give Feedback from Your Mobile Device
Would you use Mpulse or a product like it as a customer? For your business?
Michael Daehn
Reader Comments (2)
Michael - love the Mpulse concept. Not sure who won the contest; this is a fabulous idea. Also loved the Search On commercial concepts. God stuff.
Did you give up the rights to this concept by entering the contest, or can you take it elsewhere?
Thanks Will. This particular product was built for Maritz and integrates with their data so it belongs to them. However I believe I learned some valuable lessons on this project that could be applied towards creating other applications.