1. USC CSCI 577A Course Project
Renge App
Team #1
USC CSCI 577A Course Project

2. 01 02 03 04 INTRO TABLE OF CONTENTS COMMUNICA TION HAS CHANGED
MORE EFFICIENT SOCIAL -THE NEW NORM
USERS NEED A BETTER WAY
RENGE BORN
Online message is low-efficiency
Better communication with body language
Wasting lots of time to join useless meeting
Face to face talking
Target people want to be social with
Use geographical advantages
Well-in-formed locations and event details
Without join tons of useless meeting to find only one useful
Without social through lots of people to know the “only” one
Without obsessed by message convey limitation
Create account
Complete profile and “tags”
Share and know about others locations
Remind of in- coming events and target people’s
Chat and meet with others
The renge app is a social network application. But it’s not a traditional one. Firstly it’s total free and also it’s more like a template to support people find jobs or cooperator.
As well as, our app would provide more efficient social way, the app will recommend some person and events users more interested in.
Users firstly create acount and complete profile.
Users could choose to share their interest. System could recommend them some other users.
After users became friends in our app, they could start to meet with each other. Our app also would help them locate their position and track route.
User could

3. Core Capacity
It’s time for a new medium— a medium that retains Social software’s ability to make new friends and increase the probability to find target without wasting time.
1.Real-time Location Tracking(fundamental), database is graph database provided by clients.
2.User Log-in based on third-party social application such as Facebook, Google.
3.User friend request and approve.
4.Recommendation Algorithm based on interest( friends, events).
5.Message send and receive.
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4. The Personas for Renge App
Job Seeker - Steve Aoki
Employer – Calvin Harris

5. Job seeker – Steve Aoki Basic information: Age: 25 Gender: Male
Occupation: Student
Location: Torrance, CA
Description:
Aoki is a master’s student of
USC major in computer science.
He has solid knowledge of
computer science and programming skill.
Attributes:
-Student
-Busy
Goals & Aspirations
-Find a job before graduate
-Meet employer face-to-face
User Scenario:
It is the last year for Aoki to stay at school and he wants to work immediately after he graduate, so he is looking for job now. He uses LinkedIn and goes to several career fairs, but he can’t get an interview chance. He wants an oppor-tunity to meet employer face-to-face.

6. Employer– Calvin Harris
Basic information:
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Occupation: CTO
Location: Pasadena, CA
Description:
Harris is a CTO in a startup company. He is seeking for Software Engineers who
has great programming skills to form a technical team in a sort time.
Attributes:
-Employer
-Busy
-Practitioner
Goals & Aspirations
-Find several developers within short time
-Meet job seekers face-to-face
User Scenario:
Harris developed a Trading Bot for Crypto Currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. His friends and him decided to start a company to make it a product and sell it in a short time period. Harris needs more Software Engineers to help him with developing. He uses LinkedIn to find employees, but it’s hard for a startup to attract attention from job seekers. He wants to be able to talk to job seekers face-to-face in order to let them know how promising is the product and assess their coding ability.

7. “ ” Introduce the prototype and risk mitigation strategies.
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8. Map View: Why prototype it?
Dependent on COTS:
Google Maps SDK and API
Need to evaluate the cost
Proof of concept:
Search nearby venues
Use iPhone GPS location

9. Risk mitigation COTS functionality confirmed
Google Maps providing a map view for iOS
Google Maps API providing search for venues functionality
Google Maps enabling showing user’s current location on map
Further risks
API cost
API stability

10. Risk mitigation (continued)
Team members familiarity with iOS development
Self-learning, group study
Setting up version control, GitHub project board
Self-learning, experiments
Negotiation with client

11. Further Improvements UI needs more polish
Test integration with other views
Add search by keywords functionality

12. Conclusion
Renge App is a efficient social application with huge potential.
Persona analysis shows clearly how users benefit from this app.
Map View prototype mitigates some major risk of the iOS client development.