Hypothesis and problem statement
Melanie needs a way to easily find proposals of nice routes when she wants to go for a walk because she wants to stay health and in the same time she wants to know more about cultural and natural monuments in the city she lives in. We will know this to be true when we see that she successfully takes different routes and meets new parts of her city.
We believe that by building the application for personalized walking routes,
for Melanie, we will achieve improvement of Melanie’s walking habits by making her walks more independent and giving her an easy opportunity to explore the city where she lives in her free time.
Moodboard
Conceptual models for task analysis
We chose Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) as a way to graphically represent our task flow. In our opinion it gives us certain advantages over other techniques such as diagrammatical Hierarchical task analysis and other models in contextual design, since BPMN is the most thorough and takes in consideration the underlying technologies we are using (App) in the most detailed way. It helps us determine cycles in our concept and what steps a user might go through using our app.
Sketches
Storyboard
in the top corner of the screen, App informs Melanie about interesting sightseeing monuments.
Reflexion
WHO MADE WHAT CONTRIBUTION?
We were working simultaneously on this assignment but decided to separate our paths from Task 3 to be able to do the tasks individually. Afterwards we combined our ideas and voted for the most important ones.
WHAT DID YOU LEARN?
These methods are a good way to start a project, because you get fast results, that will help develop your project in the long run.
Especially the task flow with BPMN is a good way to understand better, what needs to be included and might be important to contemplate.
WHAT WENT WELL?
Everybody had a lot of ideas and the atmosphere was relaxed, so nobody had to worry about an idea maybe being not that good. We were surprised about how many ideas we came up with because we were really into developing our own ideas at first. Later on, after combining the ideas, we found similarities and felt like seeing the ideas and sketches of the other Team Members has been very inspirational for us.
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO IMPROVE?
Sebastian would like to improve his drawing skills, because he isn´t even able to draw something even remotely close to an hand. We are thinking of opening a GoFundMe page for some drawing classes.
Also, the next time we wouldn’t want to spend so much time on finding the right drawing tool for the second Task (diagrams in general).