App Development

Following the critique last Friday, and even though we don't have class tomorrow as it's Easter Friday, Alfred and I decided to meet up and work on developing our app, so that we are finished nice and early in advance of the hand-in and final presentation.
We met in the university library, to develop our app based on feedback gained. Because of the positive feedback on the layout, colour scheme, and nice continuity throughout, we kept this the same. A couple of changes we made, consisted of reducing the number of interactions required to reach the final outcome. Therefore, we had it go from the search button straight to "food, drink or entertainment", and then from there, there was only one more filter used to narrow down the searches. We made a screen (which has been pasted below) which shows the new screens we have made. 

Instead of having the screen with just 3 choices, we made a screen which gives slightly more choices, based on proximity to the user. That way the user can make the decision of how far they want to go, while making the selection, rather than having a whole different screen to filter down the distance. 


The final screen has changed as well, which instead of giving a whole screen of information and an image, it now gives some basic details about the place, as well as a map with how to get there from your current location.


I feel like this development has improved our app greatly, by making it a lot quicker and easier for the user, as well as maintaining the good continuity in colour scheme and template as we already had.

We will look to meet up again before the final presentation and hand-in, so that we can find aspects which require further refinement and then refine them before the hand-in, so that the app is as good as it can be.
The link to the app hasn't been shared on this blog as we are still editting it further, so I will just post the final link in my final app design blog post.