Design Challenge II - Week 4

This is Week 4 of the Design Challenge II - The Mobile App

With the holidays over, the group decided to finalize the Final Prototypes to be used in the speech.

The former prototype led to interviews with several people and obtaining user feedback to further improve our application. We entered the "Show, Don't Tell", "Experiment" and "Empathy" Design Thinking Mindsets to further our design. We went through the "Empathizing", "Prototype" and "Test" Design thinking modes all in the week due to time constraints we weren't really prepared for.
We thus went through several interviews and improved the application a little bit at the time -
Some of these changes included:

• Changing the Categories Button
• Improving the Overall Anesthetic
• Adding a Booking Feature
• Adding Hallal and other religious food search options

Changing our application based on the user feedback allowed us to empathize with users and consider problems we did not consider when first creating the application. The opinions from the surveys also made us consider re-defining our target audience several times across the project as it expanded from a student focused application to an application to assist everybody in Australia.
Luckily most of these changes were minor and began to go into the "Ideating" Design thinking mode to create ways to implement the different feedback and changes so that the application would be ready for the final presentation.
This week was a rush, as stated before, with the screens needing to be finished for the final presentation along with a new script. We recreated the idea of 2nd Team meetings to assist in transitioning the changes and completing the task to all of our liking. We could and should've started over the holidays but the lack of doing so meant the environment that we worked in wasn't the best. I could've reminded the team to have done some stuff over the holidays but it all worked out as we finished it on the morning of that workshop.