Wednesday 9 November 2011

Final Mockup of my Mobile App



 



This is my Primary design of my site. I have to admit that coding is so paining! When I just start it, I have no idea where to engage in it... I get nothing after spending two nights in university. Haha, but it maybe be a good memory for me, which can be regarded as a special celebration my coming graduation.





I was frustrated to face 5 units this semester and had been in fever for a 5 days last week. Even though I love my work pretty much, but I have to mortify it in order to hand in it on time. I was so sad at that time.



Finally, I move back to my primary design. As what I told to myself, I do not except to pass this assignment safely, I wish to do things differently, and I would like to go my style. I tried hard and succeed.  I am so pride of myself. But I can see how bad my coding is at the meantime as well.

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Purpose of the app:
As I am an international student in Brisbane, I do hope my app can provide convenience to visitors, making them feel free in Brisbane. Therefore, my mobile app is designed for tourists who are willing to have a basic understanding of Brisbane. I chose I Phone as my target device, as it is widely used around the world. What is more important is that I Phone is turning to be more and more popular among young people, which would be better used to attract my primary audience.


Target Audience
Primary audience:
Basically, my app is considered to be developed covering all age groups. But my Primary audience would be young tourists. The characters of my target audience are obviously to be seen. They are young, curious, appealing to personality and full of energy. Most of the youth prefer to enjoy trips in their free time. “Backpacks” is popular among young people.

Secondary audience:
My secondary audience would be all visitors in Brisbane, especially for the free walker who enjoy making travel planning by themselves.  


Desing Process:

Research:
I have done quiet much research before moving to build my own mobile app. It is easy to find a bunch of tourist websites online. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen many sites developing particular mobile service to customs. Mobile would be a pretty convenient way for tourists to abstain timely information.   

Functions or Style:
I really love simple design style. Also, personally, I believe the functions would be more important than style for users.  But Because my strong point is interface design and I do not have much time to export the coding of functions for my Mobile device.  Therefore, I decide to focus on the inter face  rather than functions.