Monday 29th April – Studio Support + Independent Study
From looking at my designs it was suggested that you cannot truly see the app being used at its full potential. This meant that I had to make the app more useable; however, I struggled to make the app function like it would if it was in a commercial use. So to over come this I would need a story line and each button pressed in the right sequence to give the appearance of a fully functioning app.
On top of this it was suggested that there is only a male point of view with the app, which is what I initially wanted. It was said that it is excluding a whole potential market so I should add in an option of having women as an option as well. However, this would mean I would have to create a whole another body and video of using female and then add in the option to the personalisation part, which would be time consuming and I was still not convinced by the idea. So moving forward I created a simple page at the start that asks the user if they would want a female form or male.
Talking with the tutor we went back to the basics of my idea as to where you show off your “(screen) body” to all your friends. My designs so far were missing a critical factor being the sharing part. For this I added the section where the user can share on many different sites their own progress, thus completing my initial idea.
To complete the app for the first use I wanted to app a mini timer of the time counting down to the next tap of the day. This was incredibly easy once I learnt how XD worked. For this each art board has a timer that moves across to the next second.
Fiona Fraser's Graphics 