Application Design 1 - Project 01: Mobile Application Proposal
APPLICATION DESIGN DST 60504
WEEK 01 - WEEK 04 (23.09.2024 - 14.10.2024)
NAME: Chin Tze Wei
I.D: 0357423
COURSE: Application Design / Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media
GROUP: Class 01 Sec 01
Application Design 1- Project 01: Mobile Application Proposal
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TABLE OF CONTENT
1.
Lectures
2.
Instructions
4.
Feedback
5.
Reflection
1. LECTURES
1.1 Lectures
Week 01: Introduction to Mobile Application Design
Mr. Zeon instructed us to review MIB and download it. He also outlined
his expectations for this module and highlighted the importance of
application design. Our initial task was to create a draft
proposal.
Week 02: The Art of User-Centered Design (UCD)
In week 2, the lecture will concentrate on user-centred design, user
experience design, user interface design, and the UCD process. We can
add additional elements to Project 1's final submission using the week 2
lecture slides as a reference. For the final proposal, we only need to
concentrate on one corporate app.
Week 03: Usability
Mr. Zeon discussed the significance of usability in application design,
highlighting features like consistency, simplicity, visibility,
feedback, and error prevention. We were required to present our final
proposal in the upcoming class. Attendance for Week 4 is mandatory, and
not attending will lead to a reduction in presentation scores.
Week 04: Presentation Week (Project 01)
Each of us has five minutes to share our proposals. Following our
presentations, Mr. Zeon provided us with feedback.
1.2 Class Summary:
Week 01
- Introduced Module Information Booklet (MIB)
- Explain assignments and E-portfolio
- Start to conduct Project 01: Mobile Application Proposal
Week 02
- Conduct Lecture Slide "The Art of User-Centered Design"
- Conduct Lecture slide "Usability Designing Products for User Satisfaction V2"
- Explain the requirement of Project 01 Final Presentation.
- Continue Project 01
Week 03
- Cunsult Project 01 with Mr Zeon.
- Continue Project 01
Week 04
- Presentation (Project 01)
2. INSTRUCTION
Module Information Booklet (MIB)
Module Information Booklet (23/09/2024)
3. PROJECT 01: MOBILE APPLICATION PROPOSAL
To-Do-List:
- Create a proposal documentation for a mobile application project.
- Redesign an existing unsatisfactory app, subject to preliminary approval.
- Conduct surveys, interviews, market studies and research on the selected topic.
- Include key features and a clear flowchat of the app.
- The document will determine if the mobile application idea is good to continue to the next development phase.
Week 01: App Research and Exploration
Instructions:
- Choose 3 various applications
After a few day of research, here are the 3 options for apps redesign:
1. Google Keep
2. Forest
3. ZARA
During the first week of my research, I discovered an interesting genre in my
app store, it was a feature that helps people browse applications by category.
For instance, when I click on the genre "Productivity", I find various
learning apps like Google Keep, Calm, Todoist, etc. Delving deeper, I explore
their ratings and reviews/ I decided to focus on language learning application
because the 1st app on the genre is Duolingo. Therefore, I have choosen
Google Keep, Forest and ZARA as my draft poposal.
Figure 3.1 Applications for draft
Working Processes of Draft Proposal (Week 01):
Figure 3.2 Working Progress 01
Figure 3.3 Working Progress 02
Figure 3.4 Working Progress 03
Figure 3.5 Working Progress 04
After finnish explore and observe those app's UI/UX design, I then started
identifying the design flaws of the app and jot them down in the slides.
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Week 01
Week 02
Week 04
Week 02: Draft Proposal (Finished)
Instructions:
- Finalise the draft proposal, and add some missing information that required by Mr Zeon.
- Start doing on the final proposal
- Submission deadline is on Week 4
After getting feedback from Mr. Zeon, I then continue to finnish my draft
proposal.
Click
HERE
to access the draft proposal in Canva.
Week 03: Finalised Proposal (Presentation)
Application name: Google Keep
Category: Productivity
Target audience: Individuals who need a simple and accessible tool for
quick notes and to-do lists.
Age: 25-34 years old
The pupose of researching the Google Keep application is to improve the
usability, enhance user experience, and address design limitations.
Inside the proposal slides, I have included these category:
1.0 Introduction of mobile application
1.1 Introduction of Google Keep
1.2 Rate and Reviews of Google Keep
1.3 Current app design
1.4 Key features of each page
1.5 Weaknesses and Solution of Google
Keep
2.0 Purpose of Redesigning Google Keep
2.1 Purpose of Proposal
2.2 Purpose of Research App
2.3 Importance of Mobile App Design
2.4 Impact of Mobile Application Design on
UX
3.0 Competitive Analysis
3.1 Google Keep
3.2 Notion
3.3 Evernote
4.0 User Demographic and Needs
4.1 User Demographic
4.2 User Needs
5.0 Goals and Objectives
5.1 Primary Goals
5.2 Secondary Goals
6.0 User Research
5.1 User Surveys
5.2 Interviews
5.3 Usability Testing
7.0 Action Plan
8.0 References
Click
HERE
to access the final proposal (OLD) in Canva
Unfortunately, the app I chose did not meet Mr Zeon's standards,
he said that the app I chose is too simple, so I had to redo the whole
presentation slide again.
Week 04: REDO Final Proposal
After that, I tried to choose another applications that is more suitable.
As, Mr Zeon said, the chosen application should have more pages
(Navigation Bar) and more function. To meet the requirement, I tried to
narrow it down and focus on the mobile apps that buy things. Becuase these
apps will be used by people no matter when and where, it is a very daily
mobile application.
Moreover, I then focus on the category, shopping and fashion retail.
Figure 3.6 Options for final proposal
After that, I have decided to redesign the Padini Mobile App. The
reason why I chose this app for redesign is that, compared with the UI
design of ZARA and UNIQLO app, it is obvious that PADINI app is very old
style. And according to user feedback from the app store, the app has very
significant UI problems, so the app is very suitable and high potential
for redesign. Lastly, I proceeded to redo my final proposal slide using
the new chosen app.
Figure 3.7 Chosen App - Padini App
Application Name: PADINI
Category: Shopping/Fashion Retail
Target Audience: Users who value convenience and accessibility in
online shopping
Same as above listed, the final proposal should include the following
sections:
1. Introduction
2. Background and Content
3. Goals and Objectives
4. User Research
5. References
Working Processes of Final Proposal (Week 04):
Figure 3.8 Working Progress 01 - Table of Content (Final
Proposal)
Figure 3.9 Working Progress 02 - Introduction of Padini App
(Final Proposal)
Figure 3.10 Working Progress 03 - Current App Design (Final
Proposal)
Figure 3.11 Working Progress 04 - Competitor Analysis (Final
Proposal)
Figure 3.12 Working Progress 05 - User Needs (Final
Proposal)
Week 05: Submitted final Proposal and Record Presentation
During the next week, I resubmited the Final Proposal slide to Mr Zeon and
also the record presentation video.
The following is my Final Mobile App proposal of the PADINI app:
Click HERE to access the final proposal (NEW) in Canva.
Video 01 Recorded Presentation Video for Project 01
Click
HERE to
watch the Presentation Video in Youtube.
4. FEEDBACK
Week 01
-
No feedback was given.
- No feedback was given.
Week 02
General Feedback:
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Continue on the draft presentation slides
Specific Feedback:
-
Try change the high rating mobile application to low
rating mobile application
- Continue on the draft presentation slides
Specific Feedback:
- Try change the high rating mobile application to low rating mobile application
Week 04
Specific Feedback:
-
The app is to simple and the pages of the page is not
that mcuh, so need to REDO the whole proposal.
- The app is to simple and the pages of the page is not that mcuh, so need to REDO the whole proposal.
5. REFLECTION
5.1 Experience
Engaging with this project offered a practical chance to analyze and evaluate a mobile application. It enable me to implement UI/UX concepts that I have learned from class into this project.
5.2 Observation
I have observed that the PADINI mobile app has signaficant problems in UI and have room for improvement. Competitors like UNIQLO and ZARA app have provided more trendy UI layout and more interactive user experience, which I can use for reference.
5.3 Finding
Through analyze the chosen application, I found out that navigation and visual clarity of an applications are very important to enhance the user experience of an application, this can make the application more user-friendly and boost user satisfaction.
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Project
Project 03: Lo-Fi App Design Prototype
Final Project: High Fidelity App Design Prototype
Google Drive Link: Click HERE
