2. Our app addresses families that need to
spend more time together and who
struggle to plan ahead in their busy
lifestyles. This app means that the family
can input events for the whole family or
just for one member meaning that the
entire family is up to date with what is
happening and who will be where
throughout the year.
Background…?
We realise that many families need this
reminder and planner as most are busy
and find it difficult to plan ahead due to
contrasting schedules. This calendar
provides an all year round organising
service and can be used to input any date
and time you want as well as reminders of
addresses and any extra information.
3. The problem that our app bases its focus
on is to solve the ever growing problem
of teenagers and children planning days
out with friends and extra curriculum
activities that contrast with their parents
plans.
Many families end up double booked and
rushed at the weekends, because of
miscommunication and simply forgetting
earlier made plans.
Problem…?
4. How can you make sure that
your family is organized and know
what and when there are doing
things? How can you make sure
that you don’t plan something that
contrast with another member of
your families plans?
Question…?
5. You’re about to go out with your best friend
to watch the latest movie. It’s been planned
for weeks and you could have sworn that you
told your mum and dad as soon as the plans
were arranged. But now their asking you were
are you going because your supposed to be
going to Grandma’s for her birthday? Maybe
you didn’t tell them after all? Forgetting to tell
others and ending up double booked?
Problem…?
6. My team, Appazing Ideas, is developing
a mobile app
to help families to communicate and stop
them from getting double booked a
creative calendar that won’t let you
forget, using notification and a
messaging system.
The App…?
7. Users…?
During the scoping stage of our
app’s development we
discovered that most would
download our app if it was free,
many even though when
questioned that our idea was
already an app it sounded that
good. We found out that most
who have a family would use and
spread our idea to others.
8. A paper calendar is an
obvious alternative however
it is making sure that the
entire family look at the
calendar every day. There is
also the possibility that if
they plan something half
way through the day they
forget to add it later in the
day to the paper version.
Alternatives…?
There is also a few apps
similar to our idea however
these aren’t very inviting and
poorly designed, to make
sure that our app succeeds
and is better then our
competitors we must make
sure that our secret sauce is
better than those.
9. Our core feature for the MyFamily
app is the calendar and the families’
ability to all see the same calendar
and all are updated when a new
feature is added. The profiles for
each family member gives the
individual a feel of uniqueness and
individuality. And also unlike any
app similar to our idea you can
message your family about further
details concerning a certain event-
this will run via Wi-Fi or 3G.
Features…?
10. Feedback…?
Throughout this project we have
gathered several results from
our potential customers. This
feedback about our app and
whether they think it is a good
idea has been integrated into
our development and we have
improved our ideas along the
way.
The improvements have
incorporated some of our
users ideas as well as
developments that we
thought needed added. Some
examples of these are adding
the messaging feature
between family members and
the personalisation.
11. The start up screen for our
app is a simple and easy to
use log in screen, where
you can put you name and
password in to get access
to your personalised
calendar for your family.
You can then add and view
your events and plans.
Prototype…?
12. Prototype…?
The personal touch
that everyone can add to
their calendar either
individually or as a
family comes in the form
of a profile page. This
page will allow you to
pick your set-up for the
calendar and a few other
qualities about yourself
to make your experience
using MyFamily more
enjoyable.
13. The main feature of our
app is the calendar and
we have incorporated
this in an easy to use
and read layout. You will
first pick a month and
the this will take you to
that months calendar
page.
Prototype…?
From there you can pick
a day where you will see
a time table for that day.
Notifications will inform
you when a new event is
added or changed, you
can then choose to view
it later or jump to that
date to see what is
happening and when.
14. Our app is feasible as it uses the phone
and its features as the base instead of
internet or our own created base. Our
app uses notifications and a calendar
which are already built into many
smartphones these days. The data that
we will be using is not owned by anyone
and is simply dates and times for the
following years. Our app can easily be
created by a professional in three
months or less meaning that it is feasible
and does not cost ore than it should to
make.
Feasibility…?
15. We have chosen to make our app
free to all customers and have a
sponsor who would pay for it’s
development and creation. So far
we haven’t contacted any possible
sponsors that could help us turn
our app idea into a full working app
available to most.
Business…?
16. We have chosen three main
methods to spread our app idea and
interest potential users. These main
ideas are word of mouth, for this we
would tell friends family and work
colleagues, hopefully they will like
our idea and will then spread it the
same way we did, till eventually our
idea is out there.
Marketing…?
Social media is also another
possible way to spread our app
idea using posts and chat rooms.
Our third and final advertising idea
is by using the first two ideas to
express that we are only thirteen-
fourteen years old, if our app is
good and people find out about
our age hopefully they will be
impressed enough to buy it.
17. Extras…?
Throughout this creative journey to
develop our ideas and create a basis
for an app we have learnt many
skills that many of us didn’t know.
For example we have created a
video which will hopefully explain
our app as well as learning some
key team working skills, these are
needed for our futures and to have a
happy career.
