The topic of this week's discussion is reflecting upon the user feedback that I have received on my project so far and explaining the effect that it has had on the course of my project. Some of the first people that I talked to were my friends from around my dorm. They mostly helped in the early stages of my idea creation when I was deciding on the direction of where I wanted my app to go. I had originally proposed a meal-coach app that could be used to help people with eating disorders and they helped to push me to the idea that I could broaden its focus a little and cater to all varieties of people whether dieting or with a disorder who might need to be reminded on meal times. This helped to broaden the focus of my app but also through this process I was also able to tweak my understanding of my app and better determine what service I wanted to deliver to my audience.
The second set of user feedback I got was from my brother on elements of the UI for the app. He has had a lot of experience with designing mobile apps from apps that he has made at hackathons and through time at a startup and therefore I thought that he would be a good candidate to ask for critique. I had originally proposed an app style where it would be all based around a single home screen and the clock in the center would be tapped to create new events on the calendar. However my brother believed that this was not intuitive enough to him and therefore would not be very intuitive to most users as a whole. He suggested instead that I create tabs at the bottom of my app so that users can switch between different activities and know what they activity they are in now and where they can go at all times. To me, I thought this was a good improvement to the app because it simplified the design on my end, but also added clarity to the layout of the app.
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