App Development | Project 1 | App-Discovery

Stage 1: Come up with 30 problems / situations that could be solved via an app.

  1. Issue Locating student parking on campus
  2. App that lets you not eat alone – group finder for meal times
  3. Paperless receipt tracker – cutting down on the clutter of paper receipts but also track spending.
  4. Simplified Home security app turn your device ( tablet/phone/pc) in to a home security station that works with most 3rd party products.
  5. Noise maker app to simulate a loud or busy situation on the end of a call
  6. Local event search app – ditch the newspapers and get a day by day of local events and activities based on price and distance.
  7. Not knowing what to choose on a menu-cc
  8. Not having a safe place to talk while depressed or stressed- hhero
  9. if you’re watching a movie and can’t remember the name of an actor- cf
  10. Not being able to see what a wait is at a restaurant ahead of time -qq
  11. Understanding how people with color blindness see/interpret things -CC
  12. Knowing where not to go – blacklist location app to education people on where and why not to travel to a place
  13. Location based time clock to verify that you are on time
  14. Mobile Scanner for classes to OCR power-points and notes to shorten data logging
  15. Locate local and major musical bands/concerts
  16. Learn skills of local craftsmen/designers/artists via live stream 2 way communication
  17. Not knowing what to cook with the ingredients you have
  18. Not knowing what gift to get a person 
  19. App to let musicians share 20-30 samples of their own music to see what people think. Tik tok but musical
  20. Challenge app for friends and groups, game/ fun 
  21. Infinite tutors get help on any subject  
  22.  Not being able to find a roommate(s) for an apartment/rental
  23. Insta-plumber AR app to show how to fix residential plumbing issues
  24. Wanting a story, LitRPG based story app where you can be the villain or the hero choose a small passage
  25. township/boro ordinance translation app for permits and storm-water
  26. Role-playing game like d&d but based over-mobile
  27.  Selecting an outfit based on weather and activity 
  28. Dating app based on the Myers-Briggs Personality types
  29. Finding news and articles based on your current mood
  30. Social streaming of videos that groups can view. Voters post videos that get played in a random order

Stage 2: Primary Elimination take 30 Problems and condense to Top 3

1. Not having a safe place to talk while depressed or stressed- hhero

2. Not being able to see what a wait is at a restaurant ahead of time -qq

3. Understanding how people with color blindness see/interpret things -CC

Stage 3: Verification if the problem has not been previously solved via another app.

1. Not having a safe place to talk while depressed or stressed- hhero

This problem would use a community chat platform but be filtered with a strict chat filter that would only allow positive and comforting messages only. There are multiple chat apps but non with a focus on positive chats only.

2. Not being able to see what a wait is at a restaurant ahead of time -qq

This problem would be focused around an App-as-a-Service function and a targeted marketing focus. many such services exist but are mainly used for specific business platforms or in the fields of medical, corporate or industrial applications.

3. Understanding how people with color blindness see/interpret things -CC

This problem would be solved via an Augmented Reality (AR) kit based app that would be used to visually translate or interpret color vision deficiencies based on the what the user requires. There are many apps that do only one of these options but not many that are built to both translate and interpret.

Stage 4: Final Elimination Top 3 to Chosen Problem for App development

Not having a safe place to talk while depressed or stressed- hhero

This problem would use a community chat platform but be filtered with a strict chat filter that would only allow positive and comforting messages only. There are multiple chat apps but non with a focus on positive chats only.

Stage 5: Basic app flowchart to narrow ideas of how app would function.

Attached image taken from class interaction activity.

Description of sticky note transcribed:

  • App Name/Title: Adulate / HabitualHero
  • Logo Design: Monogram using “HH”, Visual hybrid of hero or positivism and search iconography, symbolon of Positive relationship.
  • App Management: Ironclad Privacy policy that would be the framework for a small team consisting of technical and customer support staff, multiple trained counselors and a marketing division focusing on outreach and awareness. User promoted moderators dubbed “Positivity Hero (PH)” would be a user that would be providing a lot of positive comments and or counseling in chatroom and would be a second line of defense and a source of free moderation.
  • App Main feature: Chat-rooms(CR) consisting of multiple users that would be restricted to the helping and positive encouragement of others. CR’s would be moderated by a hierarchy of Chat detection bots, User approved moderators (PH), Company authorized counselors (CAC), and super admins ( IT / Customer support Staff) Chat would be resticted to pg, pg-13 topics; NO adult only or restricted content.
  • App Styles: Color pallet consisting of a 5 to 6 set of complementary pop colors. [Red, Gold, medium Blue, blue green, White/Black, Grey]
  • Font Selection: TT Firs Display font [True/open type font family], optional Font: Oswald / PT Sans
  • Optional Marketing solutions:
    • Free app with basic chat privileges and ability to join public CR / Public topic CR
    • Paid user upgrades to remove ads, access ability to make private CR/ Private CR topics. Private would still be accessible by PH Mods, Chat Bots, CAC’s and super admins. Downloadable Content (DLC) content may also be devised for custom emojis, backgrounds, and user interface re skins.

This is the End of the Selection of topic and problem resolution of the app development stage.

Leave a comment