We are a team of four members currently developing a mobile application for Windows. While on a team work, we learned a lot about developing an app and how to market in the industry along with our competitors. I would like to share some documentary from our project deliverable s which we used throughout our project development, and I hope that this may be useful for developers and others who are in projects.
Project Summary
The project is to develop a Windows hand held mobile device for tourists around the world. The goal of the project is to full-fill the requirements of tourists’ while on tour using a Windows mobile phone. The project is going to initiate in Sri Lanka and it expects to reach all over the world in the future. We as a team visited Hikkaduwa and Galle, and interacted with tourists in beach and hotels and got their requirements and the basic idea of their need directly from them. This project, TakeMeTour is going to make tourists life more convenience.
Overview
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Top User Stories
Simple user Interface
As an end user who uses the application I like it to have a very simple and a user friendly user interface without any technical terms and also in simple English. So that even a person who is not much exposed to mobile applications and also without much technical knowledge could use it without any hassle.
· Have a simple GUI in English
· Should not contain any jargon words
Show Menu and food ingredients
As a customer I would love to see the menu and the ingredients of particular food of a restaurant at anywhere. It will be very useful to get an idea about the foods and customize and finalize our dishes without any difficulties.
· Menu, ingredients of a particular food of a restaurant should be shown
· Able to customize the ingredients and finalize the order.
How far is the restaurant
As a tourist who is new to the country I would like to have an option in the app which will show the distance to the relevant restaurant from the main city and the travelling cost via different transportation media as well. So that even a person who is new to the country could easily decide the best possible place to have meals after considering many factors without much hassle.
· Should show distance to the restaurant and the time to reach
· Available transportation methods with respective costs.
For handicapped people
As an end user I feel if the app provides some special functionalities for handicapped people it will be much useful. So that even a handicapped person would not find it difficult to have a meal from a restaurant and will feel much more comfortable if such special facilities would be provided.
· App should show weather handicapped people are supported or not.
· Special facilities for them also should be shown
Competitors
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shows restaurants near you
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search by places
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check menu of particular restaurant
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check ingredients of particular food
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customize the ingredients as user wants
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find nearby Massage Centers
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find nearby Yoga Centers
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Note: Some apps are already existing which have some similar functionalities. But users have got bored with those applications as they have many information which are not much helpful for the users. Existing apps are focusing on user comments and the interface is annoying to the users with clumsy look and feel. We design TakeMeTour interface with lovely, simple and healthy look and feel with interesting and necessary features like look-out menu items, place order and customize order along with healthy workout plans.
Mind map of TakeMeTour
Summary: Our target audience is tourists. Tourists and tourists invitees are the actors who are going to use the application. Signed-in users get more rights to use functionalities of the app, than normal user.
Core Technologies
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High Fidelity Visual target Images
First Log-In screen
Main screen
About Us:
We are Software Engineering and Information System and Business Management undergraduates of Informatics Institute of Technology affiliating with University of Westminster, UK. Our team members are Aravindh Suntharalingam, Girijah Nagarajah, Rusiru Dilshan and Saliya Ruwan Perera.
Meeting Minutes - Project TakeMeTour
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