Enduring Understanding

Creating a prototype, getting feedback on areas for improvement, and then refining your work to create a new prototype is a powerful process for developing an effective product.

Success Criteria

• Thinking
  • purpose, audience, and beneficial effect of your app is clearly identified
  • clear evidence of revision based on feedback
• Knowledge
  • you are able to navigate the prototyping environment (Sketch) effectively
  • you create a well-organized Sketch project
  • you develop the prototype over time, sharing a brief screen recording of your work for each day until the end of the module
• Application
  • you make use of standard user-interface elements for your intended platform (iOS, iPadOS, or macOS), unless there is a clear need to develop custom UI
  • how your application works is plain – someone new should be able to operate your prototype and understand exactly how it works without any verbal prompting
  • your application prototype must plausibly address the problem you are trying to solve for others (as defined in your purpose, audience, and beneficial effect statements)
• Communication
  • when sharing your prototype with an individual or group, you can confidently explain why you made decisions about how the app interface works

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Day 1

Clearly identify the purpose of your app. What problem does it solve?

The purpose of my app, Bone Appétit, is to allow groups of people who care for one or more animals to define a feeding schedule for each animal and to keep track of whether a given animal has been fed according to their defined schedule. The problem that my app solves is eliminating the need for constant co-ordination within a group of people (whether this be verbal or through a text-message stream) to figure out whether the dog, cat, or other pet, has been fed yet.

Who is the audience for your app?

Any group of people who care for at least one animal.

What is the beneficial effect of your app for that audience?

My app ensures that a given animal is fed when it should be, and reduces the need for sometimes tedious communication within a group of people regarding whether an animal has been fed or not.

Add a screen recording showing your progress after your first day working on your prototype: