This lesson focuses on identifying features that make an app popular and successful, as well as determining the target audience for the app. Students will create an app targeted at young people aged 11-16, providing essential information while incorporating elements like home screen, maps, and galleries. Additionally, they will engage in activities like brainstorming app ideas and designing mood boards to suit the app's branding.

1. Lesson 2

2. • By the end of this lesson you will:
• Identify and summarise the features of an app that
make it popular/ successful
• Be able to identify the target audience for your app and
develop ideas that meets the needs of your target
audience

3. You have 2 Minutes to:
1.Identify one feature you think makes a good app
2.Write it on the post it note
3.Stick it on the whiteboard
5
Mins

4. 5
Mins
Discuss as a group why these apps are so popular?
What do they enable you to do that others don’t?
Try to link it to your answers on the whiteboard!

5. Its easy to
use
Its free
It has good
graphics and
images
Its useful
Its
challenging
Its fun
The
information is
always up to
date
Its colourful
and eye-
catching
Its quick

6. • Using AppShed create an app for young people in the
age range 11-16
• Its main purpose should be for information
• Design your app for one of the following 3 scenario’s:
1. Yeovil Town Football Club
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Glastonbury Music Festival

7. • As a minimum your app should include:
• A home screen or main menu
• An information screen with text and images (on your topic)
• A map screen showing points of interest/ location
• A gallery of images (of points of interest or people etc.)
• A contact option

8. • Player Statistics:
• Name
• Age
• Squad Number
• Number of Appearances
• Goals Scored
• Assists

9. • Introduction / Biography
• Character Profiles
• Statistics
• Number of novels
• Number of short stories
• Number of TV series/ films released

10. • History of the festival
• Accommodation
• Line-up
• Ticket Prices
• Statistics
• Number of stages
• Number of visitors

11. • Create a mind map of ideas for your app - think about
the need/purpose ….. Remember your design brief!
colours
images
Easy to usespeed
Text PriceLinks
Forum/Twitter GPS
Video
20
Mins

12. • Create a mood board for your app - think about the
colours and styling you might like to use and how this
fits with the brand Image.
20
Mins

13. • By the end of this lesson you will:
 Identify and summarise the features of an app that
make it popular/ successful
 Be able to identify the target audience for your app and
develop ideas that meets the needs of your target
audience

15. • It is who the product/service is aimed at. It is
usually defined by the following attributes:
• Age
• Gender
• Occupation
• Location
• Income/Wealth
• Level of education
• Interests