Name the Face

[samjam48]

Name

Sam Harris

Describe the problem you'd like to solve

Remembering People's Names.

As Dale Carnegie tells us, remembering peoples names is hugely important. Yet it's really tricky when you join a new group or have a lot of names to remember. There is no good way to review the names of all the people and you fail pathetically.

There is not a nice gamified app that makes it fun and easy to remember names of groups. Playing a simple game on your laptop (or phone) could stop you feeling like a loser trying to use none offensive words to describe someone whose attention you are trying to get.
Avoiding words that involve things like skin-colour or weight or gender or nose size to describe someone is difficult when this is what you can see. Instead of using mental energy to remember people's names your brain works on overtime to not say any of the "in your head things" out loud whilst trying to think of something just as accurate but not taboo. 🤐
This is not a productive use of brainpower.

Joining a new group of people and learning their names should be simples, like putting beans on toast. It should not be difficult like recursive callbacks stored in a hashmap encrypted on a hard-drive on a broken computer hidden on a map where 'x', 'y' or 'b' marks the spot and you don't know what idiot made the map or why they are possibly using 'b' to mark a spot when they could have just use 'x' and nothing else. I mean who does that?

When a new group of students start FAC they should all learn each other's names quickly and not have any issues. 😌
(they have github for issues. They don't need issues in their life)

When they go into the world they should have a handy (and handcrafted) tool for remembering peoples names so they impress everyone.

Who are the stakeholders?

FAC members and anyone coming into FAC could get to know us quickly.

If we let people create their own group of names and faces in the app then any company or group could add their names and faces for people to learn and make things easier.
(this would be super useful for tour guides and cover teachers who need to remember a group of names very quickly)

Stretch - If we make it work with Facebook groups or meetup then you could learn the names of groups you are joining.

What is currently being done to solve this problem?

Humans have eyes to see people and ears to hear their names. Usually, they get to hear a name once or twice and probably forget it. Some people bother to take a course on memory to get better at this stuff. Often when everyone is new they play a game as a group to help with this but it doesn't help a member who joins later on. With a group of 16 people, your chances of remembering them all on day one are low.
(one week in FAC London and I wasn't quite there. Despite only 7 people in FACN, learning foreign names was tricky)

In FAC they have the group photo and name of each student which does help a lot. But most groups that exist in the world don't have this. e.g. You start a new job, join a new team, start in a new choir, go to a mates birthday etc...

[samjam48]

I did write out an original info doc with various features that might give you some ideas for different stretch goals. Also the kind of ideas of possible game-play options to try out with user testing etc...

G-doc write up