Month: April 2015

Dev basics lecture

Simsimi- Sigh, this app has had a lot of controversy sorrounding it. what started out as a harmless app has now become a spark for so many discriminatory, sexual or any other negative thing under the sun lol. simsimi is an artificial intelligence conversation app, it has been around for a while but they keep updating newer versions of it because its has become so popular. i love it and encourge people to download and try it.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simsimi/id375239755?mt=8

This app called Pic A Space is setting out to make life easier for professional photographers looking to rent a Studio. 

Pic A Space allows Photographers, professional or non-professional to rent the photo studios located throughout New York city for shoots at any designated time of day, at your own convince. 

Each location has their own Equipment to rent out with the studio at your own choice, as well as extra props if need be. No more Googling or yelping locations, this app provides structured, organized and time-saving ways to simplify the process of discovering new locations, perfect for you.

Slides

 

This week, we revised our wireframes. We made some changes as below:

1. differentiated the path for room finder and room poster at the beginning

2. added search filter view

3. enriched the room information view

4.added instruction view for panorama

5. added tab bar on the bottom

This week, me and Ting decide to change our original idea to a new direction. Astro Match will be the final project in our team. It’s a dating app with filter based on astrological analysis. We have many classmates and friend who use dating app and also seek suggestion from astrology point of view. We think that what current dating app actually do is to have filters to help making meaningful selection from a large amount of people, and more and more people are asking astrological suggestions in private. We tend to combine the features of regular dating apps and astrology apps and to provide the astrological filter for a dating social platform. On the other hand, most astrological app, which only divide people into 12 kinds, doesn’t very accurate in most time. To improve the accuracy and meaningfulness of this filter, we will use birth chart API with algorithm from an astrologist. To not adding confusions to users, we decide to skip showing the birth chart visually, but show the compatibility between users directly.

Some learnings we had from paper prototyping messageo

Received messages
1. How are the messages organized- by date? by location?
2. Is there a way to see these as a map view?
3. Add data and location information to each message in the list
4. Let people know they have messages so they know something is waiting for them- avoid disappointments for the people that send the messages

Specific message view
Add date message was received

New message
1. Is there a possibility to send one message to more than one person?
2. Check location of current location button

Sent Messages
In sent messages- add the status of the messages (read/unread)

Feedbacks: We realized that online shoppers would prefer searching for a product on a computer rather than a smartphone via our test during class last week. This changed the whole thing. We have to redesign the approach of entering a url.  Therefore, in the second version of our wireframe, users can enter a product url by either “Copy and Paste” or “Scan”. By “Scan”, we mean using your phone to scan a url on your laptop browser. We leave the implementation of this important and innovative interaction to our wonderful developer team. [presentation]

Here are our revised wireframes.