This document discusses designing an app to help students book study rooms and spaces in their dorm building. It notes that the communal spaces are often crowded and unorganized. An app is proposed to allow students to reserve rooms for a set period of time to avoid conflicts. Considerations discussed include privacy, data collection, and features of existing apps like Park Mobile and Food Planner that help manage reservations and planning. Research on apps like Instagram, Poshmark and Quizlet is provided as examples of profile, feed, and content management features that could inform the design.

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FA102d, Design
for
Smartphones
and iPads

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Cohort: Students in Bill of Rights Hall
Freshmen - Seniors
High Rise Dorm
Most up to date
Mixed gender

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Observations

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Observations
Many students use the study rooms
Very good for collaborative work
Watch shows in the big lounge
Some practically live in them and never leave
It is first come first serve but can be complex and annoying
Hold cooking club in the kitchen
I’ve used as a filming location

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Unmet needs
More organization to how the rooms/spaces are used
A way to allow everyone to get the chance to utilise the rooms

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Application idea
An application that allows users to book rooms and sign them out for a certain amount of time especially
during midterm and exam season as many people want to use the rooms.
Better used for larger functions such as the cooking club uses the 12th floor kitchen to cook but that takes
up space and you can't really cook while they are in there
to make it easier for students to navigate around larger functions

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Ideation Session

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Ideation Session Ideas
Allow people to swipe into rooms
Open “lab”
Taken “lab”hours

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Data Policy & Digital Footprint
Info could be taken
People could stalk others
Digital footprint
Use of the app , history,
Collect cookies on who has been using the site and track preferences to help schedule reminders to study of
usual times studying
Have option remain anonymous

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App Research: Park Mobile
Reserve parking spaces
The location of your parking spot
so you don’t forget where your
car is.
You are able to see when you
have a parking spot active, what
spot reservations are coming up,
and where you’ve parked in the
past and what it cost.
Book a parking spot and where
to find one.
Here you can find the vehicle
you have registered, your
payment methods,account
information, and much more.

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App Research: Food Planner
Plan dinners in advance and keep track of food
You can sign into an existing
account, create an account, or
use the app as a guest; if you use
the app as a guest you aren’t able
to save recipes and shopping
lists.
Manage recipes, calendars,
grocery lists, home inventory,
meal plans.
You can plan out meals for the
week and check ingredient lists.
You can buy pre made meal plans
which give you recipes for
different types of diets and
health benefits.

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App Research: Instagram
Photo sharing platform
Your profile is where you can see
what you have posted and your
followers.
Your feed is where you can see
what everyone you are following
has posted.
The explore page is where you
can find new accounts and look
up friends profiles.
The activity page is where you
can see who has liked your post
and see follow requests.
The messages page is where you
can send and receive messages
from followers.

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App Research: Poshmark
Buy and sell used clothing
Sign in to an existing account
or create a new one.
See what items are for sale
near you and what items might
be of interest.
Look up specific items,
discover new items from your
favorite brands, find friends
profiles.
Find out about sales going on
and keep up to date on
purchases.
Manage your profile and
account.

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App Research: Quizlet
Create flashcards
Sign in to an existing account
or create a new one.
Create a new study set, input
term and definition, or upload
from a document.
Practice with the study set by
going through the flashcards,
writing out the term and
definition, matching, and
testing yourself.
See what study sets you have
already created for easy
access.
Look up new study sets or find
classes with study sets already
created.