CHORE CALCULATOR SMARTPHONE APPLICATION
PROJECT BRIEF
For this project we have been assigned a task to create and design a concept for a smartphone app. To conduct testing for three type of scenarios for a type of calculating application. To test our ideas and concepts.
BRAINSTROMING
As I was researching possibly ideas and concepts for a calculator application. I looked and considered a few possibilities. A few rose to the top of my list of brainstorming ideas, one was a daily H2O drinking calculator and another one was Budget Calculator, however what seemed most interested and useable in my situation at home was a Chore Calculator Application for the Home.
PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS
Our lives are busy and full of things to do. As a child, youth or parent how do you try to manage the PROBLEM of chores in the home and out in the yard and all the possible task that they need to be done daily, weekly and monthly. So a possible SOLUTION could be to help save time and to create a CHORE Tracking App on the Smartphone.
PERSONAS
1. A mom is frustrated with chores not getting done while at work, she is hoping for a way to communicate with her to know if her son has mowed the lawn.
2. A dad notice dishes in the kitchen have not been done in a couple of days, and needs help to notify his daughter to do the dishes today after school.
3. A child has a birthday party coming up after school and she would really like to have the play room floor look clean after she gets home from soccer practice.
SCENARIOS
1. Your oldest son is supposed to Mow the Lawn. Use the app to check if he has completed the task. (show X out of X completed)
2. You'd like to assign your daughter to Wash the Dishes. Use the app to create a new chore for that task.
3. Your younger son has failed to Mop the Floor. Use the app to send them a reminder for that task.
SKETCHES
I tried to set up each scenario within the sketches, to set up and easy path to follow a pattern to Check, Assign and Remind with in the Chore Smartphone Application.
Initial Draft Sketches
Sketches Scenario #1
Sketches Scenario #2
Sketches Scenario #3
USER TESTING
If you get this right in the beginning with the user testing then you are on the right track when the time comes to build the app in Figma for wire framing. I got mixed results with my sketches being easy to use. After explaining how to use the app testing went better.
Tested each of my family members to see if they could follow the sketches of my Chore Calculator App easily.
Scenario #1 User Testing
Scenario #2 User Testing
Scenario #3 User Testing
FIGMA SMARTPHONE WIRE FRAMES
During the course of this project, you could use Adobe XP or Figma to create wire frames for the Smartphone application. I really did not know each of these programs, so I went with Figma to design the Chore App. This took many hours of learning to create the prototype for the Application.
Learning Figma...
Getting Better at Figma...
Figma Designing Scenario #1
Figma Designing Scenario #2
Figma Designing Scenario #3
Figma Prototype Wire-Framing (Set-Up)
Figma Chore App Prototype Home Screen
Figma Chore App Prototype Scenario #1
(Use the App to check if he has completed the Task of Mow Lawn.)
Figma Chore App Prototype Scenario #2
(Use the App to create a New Chore for that Task to Wash Dishes.)
Figma Chore App Prototype Scenario #3
(Use the App to send a reminder for that task to Mop Floor.)
CONCLUSION
This project has been interesting in the sense that I have had to learn much and redo or remake the route I was taking for technology. I started basically working in Illustrator then switched to InDesign then went to Behance for the presentation. Once I was able to understand how simple Behance is to use I was able to get better at setting up the flow of the parts of the Chore Application. As I was moving from sketches and testing on paper which was going fairly well, the next step of intellectual technology was needing to learn XP Adobe or Figma. I chose Figma, but learning the basics was slow, until I was able to grasp the basic steps of setting up a wire frame smartphone application for my Chore App, with a Zoom meeting with our teach Brother Adam Price learning to build it backwards is key to the development of the final product for the prototype to work as envisioned. It was exciting to see the final Figma application work, I didn't think I would get here!
Video Presentation:
https://www.loom.com/share/9cfd47f3d73242829816f373852c5f77
Figma Prototype:
https://www.figma.com/proto/F2dwqMcxUs2PeUsuL3t77q/CHORES?page-id=0%3A1&node-id=39%3A233&viewport=234%2C251%2C0.22&scaling=scale-down&starting-point-node-id=39%3A233&show-proto-sidebar=1
