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Personal Inspiration Narrative

Personal Inspiration Narrative Exactly one year ago on January 27th, 2010 the Apple iPad was released, a revolutionary product that changes the way we complete everyday computing. However, Apple decided not to release it in Canada until April. Still, up to this point I have been a proud supporter of Apple products, owning just about every product they have manufactured. Naturally, the iPad was just another “toy” to add to the collection, as my parents described it. But no matter what was said I had to get it. So the count down to April began. After it being delayed to May, I made sure that was one of the first in line at the Apple store in Square One. As I got closer to the front of the line my heart beat faster and faster. And moments later there I was finally holding my shinny new iPad. But the experience of buying the iPad isn’t the key story here so I will end the journey here. After using my new iPad day after day, I began to explore the App store world. A universe of applications that has created, entertained, and taught me a world of things. The first application I downloaded was a word processing program called pages for $9.99. Which enabled me to use the iPad as my primary computer for school and taking notes. My inspiration wasn’t sparked until about a month after. Since I was about 13 I always had a fascination with entrepreneurship and new business ideas. So by this time I had downloaded and test-drove about 100 different applications. Unknowingly the application Safari, which inspired me, had already been installed on it. While navigating though numerous amounts of webpage’s, I realized that none of them were very tablet friendly. Basically, the design of the webpage’s were hard for me to navigate using my iPad. If I tried to search through numerous amounts of pages, it was difficult because clicking the small page numbers with my big finger at the bottom of the page was a hassle. I know, it was a small thing to get annoyed with, but in today’s society everything has to be as easy as possible for people or the viewer may get frustrated or irritated and leave your site. During the passed year and a half I started a business development and design company. Since I have been taking Digital Enterprise Management at school I figured I might as well use my education. With it I have been able to help many small to medium size businesses utilize their websites and online presence. After realizing this growing frustration and knowing I can’t be the only one with this problem I developed a way to remove this issue. By implementing a flowing vertical page, that seemed to never end rather then clicking next page several times allowed users to continue sliding there finger up instead. This had so much impact on my clients that it changed all of my future projects and has created much success for the company.